Action pour le développement du Sahel (ADESA) is a non-governmental organisation based in Niger that promotes conservation of natural resources and sustainable land restoration in arid areas of the Sahel region. ADESA promotes sustainable land use through soil and water conservation and restoration techniques, the use of drought-resistant and high-yielding crop varieties, irrigation, intercropping, agroforestry and agroecology.
ADESA promotes an innovative approach to biodiversity conservation, climate change mitigation and adaptation and support for the improvement of agro-sylvo-pastoral production systems. ADESA is accredited to the UNCCD, UNFCC and ECOSOC.
Contact: Adjeoda Koudjo
Email: info@adesaong.org
Website: www.adesaong.org
AIDER is a Peruvian NGO focused on environmental conservation and sustainable development, with experience promoting sustainable land and forest management, and engaging small producers, and indigenous communities that depend on forest landscapes.
AIDER promotes technological alternatives for the sustainable use of forest resources, developing local capacities for the design and implementation of management plans, providing support in the marketing of forest and agricultural products, and enabling conservation of forest biodiversity and ecosystem services.
Contact: Marioldy Sanchez Santivanez
Email: msanchez@aider.com.pe
Website: www.aider.com.pe
Location
Las Camelias 174 Piso 6 San Isidro. Lima 27. Peru.
Ajemalebu Self Help (AJESH) is an NGO based in Cameroon that empowers,nurtures, and promotes a healthy and sustainable society free from povertyand injustice, while enabling communities to live in harmony with nature.AJESH values the improvement of socioeconomic conditions in local andindigenous communities. AJESH works to empower these communities tosustainably manage their natural resources and to achieve a healthy andsustainable society that is in harmony with its environment and free frompoverty and injustice.
Contact: Harrison Nnoko Ngaaje
Email: h.nnoko@ajesh.org
Website: www.ajesh.org
Both ENDS envisions a world where human rights are respected, genderjustice is realised, and the environment is fostered and protected, thusassuring a life in dignity and prosperity for all, now and in the future. It seeksto strengthen civil society globally to gain critical influence over decisions andactivities that affect people’s rights and the environment, guaranteeing thatsociety fosters and protects ecosystems while ensuring respect for all humanrights, including the right to water, food and a safe living environment.
Contact: Nathalie van Haren
Email: N.vanHaren@bothends.org
Website: www.bothends.org
The British Society of Soil Science (BSSS) is an established international membership organisation committed to the study of soil in its widest aspects. The society brings together those working within academia, practitioners implementing soil science in industry and all those working with, or with an interest in soils.
Contact: Andrew Morris
Email: andrewmorris@soils.org.uk
Website: www.soils.org.uk
The Centro de Assessoria e Apoio aos Trabalhadores eInstituições Não Governamentais Alternativas, or Centre for Advice and Support for Workers and Alternative Non-Governmental Institutions (CAATINGA) is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation with an agroecology focus that develops actions to promote and strengthen family farming while aiming to nurture the rights of the residents of Brazil’s semiarid regions.
CAATINGA achieves this by working to build and develop capacity of farming families, particularly women farmers, while ensuring climate resilience.
Contact: Jucimar de Souza Brito
Email: jucimar@caatinga.org.br
Website: www.caatinga.org.br
Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) has an interstate mandate to support environmental cooperation and sustainable development in five Central Asia countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. It works to address threats posed by climate change and adverse impacts on communities and environments.
CAREC focuses on transboundary water resource management, promoting knowledge sharing, dialogue, coordination and cooperation to find equitable, joint and sustainable solutions. Its interventions are in the areas of good governance, environment and sustainable development, with gender equality as a cross-cutting issue.
Contact: Arailym Shulgauova
Email: carec@carececo.org
Website: www.carececo.org
CAREC is a Drynet Associate Member
The Centre d’Actions et de Réalisations Internationales (CARI ) is a people-centred organisation whose work is based on networking and exchange with civil society to achieve social and environmental justice, particularly in the fight against desertification.
CARI promotes a sustainable agricultural model (agroecology, family farming) to address the issue of land degradation in arid areas.
Contact: Manon Albagnac
Email: sahel@cariassociation.org
Website: www.cariassociation.org
Fundación CAUCE is a non-governmental organisation of young professionals dedicated to working for the common good and building networks to promote cultural and civic change in opposition to the unjust extractivist model of wealth accumulation and environmental destruction.
Fundación CAUCE supports agroecology producers by raising awareness about nature-based solutions to climate change and promoting sustainable food and nutrition practices. CAUCE advocates for environmental democracy by ensuring access to public information, fostering citizen participation, and promoting access to justice. It also contributes to local culture and artistic expressions while advancing environmental education initiatives.
Contact: Valeria Inés Enderle
Email: enderlevaleria@gmail.com
Website: www.cauceecologico.org
The non-profit Centre for Sustainable Development and Environment (CENESTA) works with indigenous nomadic pastoralists, farmers, marine and coastal communities and forest dwellers of Iran. CENESTA promotes endogenous and sustainable socio-cultural and ecologically-based development and advocates for full recognition of the rights of communities within Indigenous and Community Conserved Areas and Territories (ICCAs).
By building alliances and creating synergies among right-holders and stakeholders CENESTA supports the co-management of natural resources, contributes to empowerment of Indigenous and rural communities and promotes the preservation of indigenous food and knowledge systems and their integration with modern science in conservation, sustainable use and restoration of natural resources.
Contact: Nahid Naghizadeh
Email: nahid.naghizadeh@gmail.com
CYEN is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation that focuses its resources on empowering young citizens of the Caribbean and their communities to develop programmes/actions to address socio-economic and environmental issues. CYEN’s programmes aim to address poverty alleviation, youth employment, health, climate change, disaster resilience, sustainable land management, coastal and marine issues, biodiversity conservation, integrated water resources management, waste management and other natural resource management issues in the context of sustainable development.
CYEN has over five hundred members and conducts operations in sixteen countries within the wider Caribbean region. Its Caribbean Office is based and registered in Barbados.
Contact:Reginald Burke, Executive Coordinator
Email: executivecoordinator@cyen.org
Website: www.cyen.org
Dhrubotara Youth Development Foundation (DYDF) promotes the empowerment of young people to achieve the SDGs, protect the environment and advance sustainable socio-economic development in Bangladesh. It has more than 48,000 members and works to develop the leadership and management skills of young people and thereby to motivate them to become more responsible citizens.
DYDF undertakes research to identify gaps and challenges in social development and promotes education in the fields of climate and drought management, water, alternative energy, food rights, organic agriculture, biodiversity conservation and vocational training and skills development.
Contact: Amiya Prapan Chakra Borty
Email: dydfbd@gmail.com
Website: www.dydf.org
ENDA Energie is an NGO based in Senegal and is a member of the international network Environmental Development Action in the Third World (ENDA Tiers Monde).
ENDA Energie operates around actions related to energy, climate change, sustainable land management and gender in Africa. It is committed to providing technical assistance to African countries for the transfer of climate technologies, including endogenous technologies, and the promotion of Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) through ecosystem restoration programmes.
Contact: Fatima Kaba
Email: tatima_ta@yahoo.fr
Website: www.endatiersmonde.org
FARN (Fundación Ambiente y Recursos Naturales) is an independent, non-partisan NGO based in Argentina. Since 1985, FARN has been committed to environmental protection and the defense of human rights. The organization advances research, policy advocacy, and community engagement to promote social well-being and respect for ecological integrity, with an
intergenerational and gender-responsive approach. FARN’s work focuses on environmental justice, sustainable development, and collective participation in the defense of the environment and human rights in Argentina, while contributing to regional and global efforts for a just and sustainable future.
Contact: Ana Di Pangracio
Website: www.farn.org.ar
Gram Bharati Samiti or Society for Rural Development (GBS) is an NGO working to achieve a society based on humanitarian and democratic values, while ensuring an ecologically balanced habitat.
GBS’s main focus is on developing wastelands (uncultivable infertile, undulated barren sandy lands) and improving the quality of life of particularly the poor people of backward castes of the rural areas, including activities such as stabilising sand dunes, conserving soil and moisture, harvesting rain water, restoring traditional water structures, regenerating indigenous medicinal plant species and training women and youth.
Contact: Kusum Lata Jain
Email: kjgbs@rediffmail.com
Website: www.gbsjaipur.org
The Groupe de Coordination des Zones Arides (GCOZA Mali) is a network composed of non-governmental organisations, research institutions and government institutions. It brings together organisations focusing on enhancing living conditions in arid and semi-arid zones in Mali.
GCOZA Mali provides opportunities for its members to exchange knowledge, improve representation, engage in reflection and take action. This network promotes the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of sustainable food security and natural resource management policies.
Contact: Ibrahima Séméga
Email: sikubine@yahoo.fr
Indigo development & change is a South African non-profit which focuses on biodiversity conservation, sustainable land management and climate change adaptation. Indigo recognises the value of indigenous knowledge and builds the capacity of land users through interactive learning events, training courses and workshops.
Indigo monitors the biodiversity of a global hotspot, and works with small-scale farmers to enhance sustainability in production systems of indigenous rooibos. Indigo facilitates adaptation for the most vulnerable affected by climate change.
Contact: Shannon Brandt
Email: shannon@indigo-dc.org
Website: www.indigo-dc.org
Location
1 Neethling Street, Nieuwoudtville 8180 South Africa
Misión Verde Amazonia is a Colombian organisation focused on environmental conservation and sustainable development. It promotes ecosystem restoration, sustainable agriculture, and livestock practices, including agroforestry and silvopastoral systems. Engaging small producers and rural communities, it fosters natural resource conservation through payment for ecosystem services and water source protection.
The organisation collaborates with the government and local communities to build capacities in sustainable land management, addressing climate change challenges.
Contact: Wilmer Valencia
Email: wilmer_br@yahoo.com.br
Website: www.corporacionmva.org
Observatorio Latinoamericano de Conflictos Ambientales (OLCA) supports communities in socio-environmental conflict, which in conditions of profound inequity, face a predatory economic model.
The organisation promotes participation and collective leadership, them exchange of experiences and knowledge, and the construction of alternatives to development, which are at the service of life, ecosystems, and the communities and peoples that inhabit them.
Contact: Ricardo Cifuentes
Email: r.cifuentes@olca.cl
Website: www.olca.cl
OLCA is a Drynet Associate Member
Productividad Biosfera Medio Ambiente (PROBIOMA) has extensive experience in the areas of agroecology, biodiversity management, biotechnology, capacity building for local organisations, training of socio-environmental monitors, political advocacy and citizen information.
The organisation supports small producers applying technological innovations of biodiversity and genetic resources, and supports social development that promotes food security, sovereignty, and agroecological production.
Contact: Miquel Angel Crespo
Email: probioma@probioma.org.bo
Website: www.probioma.org.bo
Location
Productividad, Biosfera y Medio Ambiente, Casilla 3972, 6022 Santa Cruz, Bolivia
The Society for Conservation and Protection of Environment (SCOPE) networks at all levels to build capacity and advocate to protect the natural environment.
The core of SCOPE’s work is contributing to and influencing governmental policies within the framework of the global environmental and sustainable development agendas. To achieve this, SCOPE partners and collaborates with a wide range of stakeholders.
Contact: Tanveer Arif
Email: scopepakistan90@gmail.com
Website: www.pakngos.com.pk/listing/society-for-conservation-and-protection-of-environment-scope
Location
D-141 (annexy) Block-2, P.E.C.H.S., Off Allama Iqbal Road 75400 Karachi Pakistan
The Secrétariat Permanent des Organisations Non Gouvernementales (SPONG) is a national platform of NGOs and development associations, foundations, research and training centres, youth movements, and thematic networks in Burkina Faso. SPONG creates a framework for consultation that enables action on the ground and promotes dialogue with government and technical and financial partners.
SPONG members work in a wide range of fields of social and economic development, including agriculture, environment, food and nutritional security. It seeks to influence policies to improve resilience to environmental shocks and to promote food self-sufficiency.
Contact: Bakary Diakité
Email: bakary.diakite@tiipaalga.org
Website: www.spong.bf
The Turkish Foundation for Combating Soil Erosion (TEMA) is grassroots civil society organisation with more than a million members that was established to combat erosion and protect natural assets.
TEMA seeks to protect the soil, which provides a crucial carbon sink and supports agriculture and forests. TEMA works to protect all natural assets such as water, forests and biodiversity, and to create policies and social awareness on human-induced climate change.
Contact: Dijan Balkaroğlu
Email: dijan.balkaroglu@tema.org.tr
Website: www.tema.org.tr
Location
TEMA Foundation Halaskargazi Cad. No: 22 Kat:7 34371 Sisli-Istanbul, Turkey
Tenmiya is a Mauritanian development organisation founded in 1998 by a group of engineers. Tenmiya promotes development by initiating and implementing locally appropriate projects focused on technical, economic and social innovation, and exchanging development-related experiences with other NGOs from the global North and the South.
Tenmiya provides a structure that it open to development operators, students and researchers who want to work on themes related to support for grassroots development initiatives. It also enables local development support mechanisms that advance development beyond the conclusion of projects.
Contact: Mohamed Ould Tourad
Email: mohamed_tourad@yahoo.fr
Website: www.tenmiya.com
Tenmiya is a Drynet Associate Member
Togo Welfare promotes environmental protection and sustainable development in Togo by promoting gender equity and supporting the involvement of young people in the sustainable development process and promoting gender equity.
Welfare Togo seeks to eradicate all forms of extreme poverty amongst young people through education and employment towards advancing local sustainable development. It promotes innovation, creativity and self-employment of young people and women and work in a positive and constructive spirit.
Contact: Djatougbe Aziaka
Email: togowelfare@gmail.com
Website: www.facebook.com/WelfareTogo
The World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technology (WOCAT) is a global network for sharing and applying knowledge to support adaptation, innovation and decision-making on Sustainable Land Management (SLM). It has created an innovative space for sharing and scaling good practices to address land degradation, climate change, and biodiversity loss.
WOCAT facilitates knowledge sharing and analysis of which good practices work where, how and why, and their costs and benefits. The WOCAT Global SLM Database is recognised by the UNCCD as the primary Global Database for effective SLM practices. WOCAT is hosted by the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) at the University of Berne in Switzerland.
Contact: Nicole Harari
Email: nicole.harari@unibe.ch
Website: www.wocat.net/en/
Drynet members work in different countries across the globe, yet our experiences in promoting sustainable land management show common synergies and similar issues of concern.
Being a member of Drynet offers you the opportunity to make a real difference in drylands communities and directly contribute to UNCCD processes. Drynet is a self-funded network. Our members subscribe to a common set of principles and contribute to an annual membership fee.
Drynet is a network for civil society organisations (CSOs) that subscribe to a common set of principles and are committed to promoting sustainable land management in drylands.
Members gain the opportunity to make a real difference in drylands communities, exchange knowledge and experiences with a global network, and directly contribute to UNCCD (land degradation) policy processes.
No, Drynet is a self-funded, membership-based network. Members contribute through an annual membership fee to support the coordination of network activities.
The Drynet Members page includes a full directory and a list of all member organisations, often with links and contact information, to facilitate collaboration and networking.
