The Nigerian Environmental Study Action Team (NEST) is a leading national not-for-profit, sustainable development organisation that was founded in 1987, and officially registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission in 1988. As a membership organization, NEST set itself the overall goal of acting in concert with an active, nationwide membership to accomplish its mission, through the following operational objectives:
1. Conducting and promoting knowledge building in all areas of human interaction with the environment
2. Placing at the disposal of all stakeholders, appropriate information and perspectives on the status of the Nigerian environment.
3. Stimulating debate and intensifying awareness on the consequences of human actions on the environment
4. Sensitizing policy makers on the need to pursue sustainable development.
5. Facilitating the development of sustainable livelihoods at the grassroots through enterprise systems.
6. Addressing peculiar environmental issues that affect disadvantaged groups, including women and children
7. Networking and collaborating with other organizations, local or international, involved in environment and sustainable development issues.
Essentially, NEST is a non-governmental organization, dedicated to improving the ways by which we interact with the environment. NEST is determined to become increasingly self-supporting, though maintaining a compact and efficient organizational profile, with a highly professional and well-motivated staff conscious of the need to generate income while remaining prudent in resource use. The motivation for the establishment of NEST is deeply rooted in the paradox of 'a natural resources blessed continent wallowing in bewilderment in the throes of poverty and want', especially in the last three decades, to the extent that disturbing pictures of hunger stricken Africans often appear on television screens.
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We conduct research to inform policy and stakeholder action. We disseminate evidence-based information on sustainable interaction with the environment.
