Well Grounded a été mis en place par deux personnes, Cath Long et Lola Leal. À eux deux, Cath et Lola ont plus de 30 ans d’expérience dans le travail avec les organisations et les communautés locales sur les ressources naturelles et les droits, en particulier en Afrique. Leur expérience nationale comprend: cameroun, République centrafricaine, République démocratique du Congo, Éthiopie, Gabon, Ghana, Libéria, Mozambique, République du Congo, Sierra Leone, Afrique du Sud, Ouganda et Zimbabwe en Afrique; et la Bolivie, le Brésil, l’Équateur, le Guatemala, le Pérou et le Venezuela en Amérique latine. Ils ont travaillé dans le secteur des ONG, dans la recherche et avec les gouvernements sur l’élaboration et l’exécution des programmes et sur les politiques, les campagnes et les activités de plaidoyer. Ils disposent d’un solide réseau de contacts et d’antécédents de travail réussi dans les campagnes et les programmes.
Pressure on natural resources
Natural resources are central to the lives and livelihoods of the poorest and most marginalised people. However, all too often these resources aren’t managed in a way that benefits the communities who depend on them or that ensures that they’ll be available to future generations. The situation is becoming more urgent as the international appetite for natural resources, including minerals, timber and land for crops such as palm oil, becomes ever greater. Communities and natural habitats are under pressure.
Working with civil society organisations
Well Grounded works with African civil society organisations (who can be any group, formal or informal, that brings people together for a purpose. They can include, among others, non-government organisations, community-based organisations, networks, platforms, coalitions and social movements), because they have a key role to play as a complement and a counterweight to government and the private sector. Well Grounded works with these organisations so that they are able to realise their objectives and vision and make a positive change to community rights and natural resource management in their home countries and in the wider world.
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