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Green Partners Association (GPA)
GPA was created on 4th June 2013 as an apolitical, non-denominational and non-profit-making civil society organization (CSO). It was registered in Limbe, South West region of Cameroon; Reg. No. 560/G.37/184/VOLII/SAAJP – Limbe, 04 June 2013, in conformity with prescriptions of Article 7 of Law No. 90/053 of 19/12/90 relating to the creation and functioning of associations in Cameroon. In 2018 our Head Office was moved to Bamenda, North West region of Cameroon, with a field office in Buea. For the past five years our activities have been concentrated in the two conflict affected Anglophone (NW/SW) regions of Cameroon (however, with limited interventions in the Littoral and West regions).
Shu Martin A.
Executive Director/CEO
OUR VISION
Green Partners Association believes in “Sustainability and Equity for all” – building a resilient people; resilient planet and resilient profit; to enhance a society of meaningful purpose – where ‘we all’ are able to enhance a balance between the competing (and most often conflicting) values of socially responsible initiatives, environmental performance and economic rationality.
OUR MISSION
GPA is committed towards engaging, empowering and equipping people that suffer social exclusion: people exposed to inequalities and various forms of vulnerabilities – people in distress and in dire need of lifesaving protection measures, resulting from deprivation of basic human, indigenous and children’s rights and loss of human dignity.
Programs and Services
GPA’s Programs and Services are aimed at Building Community Resilience specifically though
Asset-Based and Community-Led Development (ABCD): Local Solutions to unique socio-economic challenges in resilience building.
GPA realized that communities in Cameroon can drive the sustainable development process themselves by identifying and mobilizing existing, but often unrecognized assets, and thereby responding to and creating local economic and social development opportunities that are capable of building resilience. GPA engages meaningful community partnerships to drive the community development processes and emerging challenges, and leverage additional (external) support to help remove barriers that hinder community sovereignty and success so that they are able to achieve sustainable, economic and social development.
Climate Change Adaptation: Enhancing the resilience of local people to Climate and Environmental Shocks
As elsewhere the world over climate change poses a significant threat to the lives and livelihoods activities of the local communities in Cameroon (decreasing water supply, effects on livestock rearing and agriculture, reduced productivity, and an increased vulnerability and reliance on external food sources). Together with a cohort of representatives from frontline community organizations, Green Partners Association explore the challenges and opportunities for increasing adaptation in climate-impacted livelihoods through the enhancement of sustainable agriculture and livestock Systems.
Corporate Social Responsibility and Human Rights Advocacy
Businesses – be they multinationals, national companies or SMEs, have a negative impacts on agricultural land, forest, clean air, clean environment and water resources, making it more difficult for communities to achieve positive outcomes in their livelihoods. Such organizations therefore need to integrate corporate social responsibility (CSR) into their business policies to mitigate the negative impact of activities on the socio-economic environment. GPA equally recognizes that where centralized support fails, businesses and civil society organizations have an opportunity to step up, whether it is taking a stand on global issues such as climate change, responsibility towards human rights or contributing to the greater community welfare.
GPA advocates for the responsibility to respect human rights – requiring Businesses to “avoid causing or contributing to adverse human rights impacts through their own activities and addressing such impacts when they occur.” GPA goes beyond advocacy to “Lobbying” – engaging Businesses/organizations towards community welfare through enhanced skills, knowledge, empowerment, consciousness and human rights monitoring as well as improved community engagement and participation initiatives in terms of local community development in the face of prevailing opportunities, adversity and global challenges.
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