AREAS
OF FOCUS
Water and
Sanitation; Flood/Storm Water Management; Biodiversity; Wetlands
Resources Conservation; Sustainable Energy; Anti-large Dams Campaigns;
Community Development; Public Health Researches; Environmental
& Health Education; Gender and Charity.
SWAPHEP
PROJECTS
Water-related
Disaster Risks Reduction Campaign (WADREC)
WADREC
focuses on floods, storm water and ocean surge. It also focuses
on dam-related disasters, dam debates and conflicts as well
as the dialogue on the report of the World Commission on Dams,
which forms the basis for national dialogues on dams and development.
WADREC also deals with water pollution and global warming as
well as climate change as it relates to sea level rise, ocean
surge, erosion of coastline and biodiversity.
NGO/Civil
Society Dialogue on the Report of the WCD is one of SWAPHEP's
projects directed at ensuring that there is institutional/ policy
as well as a multi-stakeholder strategy towards resolving conflicts
and debates around dams in Nigeria.
Water
Action Project (WAP)
This project
seeks to see governments translate international water commitments
to actions at local and national levels. WAP employs non-violent
civil society actions, field research and policy lobbying strategies
to demand for actions to make international water commitments
work.
Water Action
Project (WAP) is another project that has a policy/decision outreach
strategy. At local and national levels, the project seeks to ensure
that local and national water actions correspond with international
water commitments. This the organization hopes to achieve through
zonal water dialogues, enlightenment campaigns - with policy makers
in center of focus - and moves towards seeing policy makers strengthen
existing water laws and making new laws that will address water-related
problems in the country. WAP also has a global dimension called
Global Action for Water (GAWA), which is mobilizing civil society
world wide to ensure that the 3rd World Water Forum in Japan 2003
actually ensures a shift from paper commitments to actions among
nations. GAWA will employ an Internet global learning process
and a non-violent civil society action to press for action-oriented
approach to water supply and services issues among governments.
Peoples
Initiatives for a Clean Environment (PICK)
- PICK conceptualizes
a waste management system that is integrating, participatory,
easy- to- manage, economically rewarding and beneficial to the
environment and people of Nigeria. It uses replicable and easy-
to-manage technology to solve the age - long waste management
problems in Nigeria.
- PICK is
a "Sanitation for People" initiative. PICK brings
the government, the private sector, non-governmental organizations,
the civil society and the academic institutions to a point of
shared environmental concerns.
- PICK is
a job generating opportunity for scavengers. It is an income
generating system for market unions, economic empowerment tool
for women, helping to rid the Nigerian streets of jobless youths
and touts.
- PICK enhances
ecological balance to the environment and of course,
- PICK epitomizes
environmental health and safety for people and nature.
- PICK is
therefore an "All Gain Affair" and a "Waste to
Wealth Strategy".
Community
Development Water Project (CodeWATER)
CodeWATER
is a direct intervention pro-poor project that focuses mainly
on rural communities water supply through traditional and/or
simple easy-to-manage rain water harvesting and water purification
technologies to meet the people's water needs. CodeWATER also
focuses on peri-urban and urban centers. The point of note here
is the use of simple technologies to 
protect/conserve
underground and surface fresh water resources, providing very
formidable water supply alternatives to conventional methods
and high cost, high tech water supply options such as large
dams and boreholes.
Green
Malaria Eradication Project (GEME)
Malaria
- a disease of poor and slum dwellers - claims one million lives
annually. The World Health Organization and the other members
of a consortium launched the Roll Back Malaria Initiatives with
a three-prone curative attack at the disease. They include:
development of malaria drugs, focus on women and the use of
insecticide-treated mosquito nets.
GEME seeks
to draw attention to environmental sanitation and poverty reduction
as preventive and permanent malaria eradication strategies,
but which is yet to receive adequate attention from governments
and development agencies. GEME uses field research and analysis
and socio-economic methodologies to fight the disease.
Gender
Water & Energy Network (GEWEN)
Water and
energy issues are essentially gender issues as women are closest
to nature and bear the brunt of environmental degradation. GEWEN
is the gender development arm of SWAPHEP. It employs education,
field analysis, training and economic empowerment strategies
to reach the women.
