Local Partners
Environmental issues are almost always too complex to be tackled by any one organization no matter how big the organization. To foster partnerships and linkages locally and globally, NEST has interacted and continues to interact with a number of local and international organizations.  NEST has interacted and continues to interact with:

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  • Centre for African Settlement and Development (CASSAD)

  • Centre for Community Development (CENCOMDEV)

  • Centre for Environmental Resources and Sustainable Ecosystems (CE-RASE)

  • Centre for Health Education Training, Research and Development. (CHESTRAD)

  • Community Women's Association of  Nigeria (COWAN)

  • Oyo State Environmental Protection Commission

  • Enabling Environment Forum (EEF)

  • Enterprise for Development International (EfDI)

  • Farmers Development Union (FADU)

  • Federal Environmental Protection Agency (FEPA)

  • Foundation for Environmental Development and Education in Nigeria (FEDEN)

  • Federal Ministry of Environment

  • Food Basket Foundation International (FBFI)

  • Friends of the Environment (FOTE)

  • National Centre for Economic Management and Administration. (NCEMA)

  • Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF)

  • Nigerian Field Society

  • Nigeria NGO Consultative Forum (NINCOF)

  • Nigeria Participatory Rural and Appraisal Network.(NIPRANET)

  • Nigeria Institute of Social and Economic Research. (NISER)

  • Nigeria NGO Coalition for Human Settlement and  Environment (NNCHSE)

  • University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (UNAAB)

  • Women In Nigeria (WIN)

  • Women Health and Economic Development Association (WHEDA)

  • Women Farmers Association of Nigeria (WOFAN)

International Partners

Internationally the major linkages are with the Regional and International Networking Group (RING) which brings  a number of sustainable development organizations into a network.  Along with NEST, current members of the RING are:

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  • African Centre for Technology Studies, ACTS in Kenya
  • Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies, BCAS in Bangladesh
  • Centro de Invesigation y Planification de Medio (CIPMA) in Chile
  • Development Alternatives (DA) in India

  • Environnement et Developpment du Tiers Monde (ENDA-TM) in Senegal

  • International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) in the UK

  • IIED-AL in Argentina
  • International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) in Canada
  • Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI-Boston) in the USA
  • Sustainable Development Policy Institute, SDPI in Pakistan
  • Vitae Civilis in Brazil
  • ZERO - Regional Environmental Organization, in Zimbabwe

Other international organizations that NEST has interacted or continues to interact with are:

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  • Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)

  • Commonwealth Foundation

  • CUSO

  • Electronic Community (EC)

  • Ford Foundation

  • Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FEF)

  • Friends of the Earth International (FoE)

  • Global Change Strategies International  (GCSI)

  • Goethe Institut

  • Habitat International Coalition

  • International Development Research Council(IDRC)

  • Third World Network-Africa (TWN)

  • United Nations Convention for Combating Desertification (UNCCD) Secretariat

  • United States Information Service (USIS)

  • World Bank

  • World Conservation Union (IUCN), by membership of the main body and of the Commission for Environmental Economics and  Social Policy (CEESP)

  • World Resources Institute (WRI)