Research and Other Publications
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Building African Capacity to Develop and Implement Environmental LawIn addition to promoting environmental law directly, ELI builds the capacity of local public interest environmental governmental and non-governmental organizations to address the environmental problems that they face. The capacity building comes in many forms: joint research projects, such as research on access to genetic resources in Uganda (with the Uganda Wildlife Society); providing technical expertise from ELI and its partners, as in the review of Ethiopia’s draft framework environmental proclamation; and hosting visiting scholars at ELI. ELI also works closely with its African partners to develop and convene local, national, and regional capacity-building workshops and training events. To date, ELI and its partners have trained judicial officers (in Uganda), environmental lawyers (from throughout East Africa), and community leaders and resource persons (Cameroon and Kenya). ELI has added to the basic environmental law resources available to African non-governmental, university, and governmental organizations by donating computers and hundreds of books, and by lecturing on a wide range of topics in environmental law.
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