Eco-Benin

Eco-Benin aims to enhance human development. The organisation does so by managing natural resources properly and using them for eco-tourism and ecological development.

Eco-Benin is active in 3 areas:

• Advice on sustainable or eco development: conducting feasibility studies on ecological development; ceveloping a legal framework to help local authorities manage the biological resources in their area; ecological development initiatives in the food, health and territorial management sectors.
• Planning and management of eco-tourism areas: building local expertise in community-based territorial management; drawing up plans for the development and management of eco-tourism areas; designing and implementing local projects to promote eco-tourism.
• Social empowerment and training: developing environmental education/communication; such as workshops on marine biodiversity; promote (in)formal education on eco-tourism; integrating poverty reduction and gender into natural resource management projects.

As a partner of Join For Water, Eco-Benin will first of all carry out a diagnosis and draw up an activity plan. In the municipality of Grand-Popo in the department of Mono – in the very south of Benin – Eco-Benin will work on the restoration and improvement of water-related ecosystem services. The ecological recovery of the mangroves in this municipality is also part of this. Eco-Benin will also take on the organisation of the local management groups around citizen participation and advocacy.

Created in 1999
Partner of Join For Water since 2022
For more information go to www.ecobenin.org