Meet our new member from Cameroon!
We are excited to welcome a new member to the ECOS Network: the Association Camerounaise pour le Développement, l’Entraide Sociale et la Protection de l’Environnement (ACDESPE) is an NGO active in environmental protection and fighting against climate change.
Would you like to get to know them better? Read our short Q&A with ACDESPE Coordinator Anyssé Kenfack!
Q: Could you briefly introduce yourself to the network? What is the mission of ACDESPE and which are your main activities?
Anyssé Kenfack: The Association Camerounaise pour le Développement, l’Entraide Sociale et la Protection de l’Environnement (ACDESPE) is a non-profit, non-denominational Cameroonian civil society organization. It has been working for 15 years alongside the government, the private sector and local communities, for the protection of the environment and the fight against climate change. The organisation does this through the promotion of the green economy and forest governance, sustainable management of household and urban waste, the promotion of environmental democracy and the observation of international carbon markets of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). To achieve this, we act as whistleblowers on emerging topics, we put together observation reports, we offer capacity building and guide the government in the development or revision of climate policies.
Q: What is your main interest in joining the ECOS network?
Anyssé Kenfack: In view of the evolution of environmental standards, which are becoming more and more a necessity and a requirement to guarantee an effective green transition in all sectors, it is important that the African community, which is little trained on this issue, can take an active part in this space. Thus, our membership in ECOS will allow us to benefit from the network’s extensive experience in standardisation while participating in the promotion of its values in Africa. Through our presence within ECOS, which is an established stakeholder in standardisation, we also wish to develop partnerships with organizations which have the same objectives as us, but also with those that wish to promote and popularize the work of environmental standards on the African continent.
Here at ECOS, we are very much looking forward to cooperating with ACDESPE!
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