Since 2003, Green Advocates has been dedicated to:

  • Advocacy for human rights and environmental protection
  • Advocacy for accountability, transparency and the need to bring impunity into account including addressing transitional justice
  • Advancing human rights protection and advocacy through sound environmental practices and the construction and introduction of people-centered legal instruments for government approval
  • Protecting the interest of communities affected by natural resource extraction and the issues of corporate accountability and governance
  • Negotiating with private corporations and government in the interest of poor and disadvantaged communities
  • Giving voice to rural, indigenous and tribal people, including the urban slums and squatter communities who, historically, have been denied not just access to benefits accruing from the extraction of natural resources from their ancestral lands but also services and infrastructure support that would advance the attainment of economic, social and cultural rights

More specifically, the activities of the Green Advocates, locally and internationally, have included the following:

  • Participation, contribution and establishment of the Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Liberia coalition which is credited with the public awareness and lobby that saw Liberia join and implement the EITI
  • Participation and contribution in the formulation of the Liberia Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (LEITI) legislation and the establishment of the Liberia Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (LEITI)
  • Participation and contribution in the formulation of the community rights laws with respect to forest lands of Liberia
  • Participation and contribution in the formulation of forestry policies, strategies and laws of Liberia including the various forestry related regulations
  • Participation and contribution to the formulation of the Environmental policy and laws including the Establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency of Liberia
  • Negotiations with government and multinationals for the rights of affected and deprived communities
  • The building of hopes in abandoned victims of extractive industries and agricultural plantations
  • Participation, contribution and establishment of the Non-Governmental Coalition (NGO Coalition) on the environment and natural resources of Liberia
  • Participation, contribution and establishment of the Liberian Civil Society Budget Network
  • Participation, contribution and establishment of the Multi Stakeholder dialogue platform on Pit sawing (small chain saw timber production) in Liberia
  • Participation, contribution and establishment of the Multi Stakeholder Dialogue (MSD Large Scale Land Development) on Large Scale Land Development in Liberia to advance a new business model for large scale land development in Liberia
  • Participation, contribution, mobilization and establishment of the Sustainable Partnership Initiative (SPI)—a multi-stakeholder platform involving the private sector (i.e., Sime Darby), local communities, civil society organizations, development partners, relevant government agencies, academic and research institution, and International organizations working together to ensure that the oil palm sector is pro poor, fair, equitable, sustainable, right and tenured based
  • Participation, contribution, mobilization and establishment of the Alliance for Rural Democracy (ARD) a network of   national pro poor organizations, independent and emerging union, natural resources dependent women and local community structures from Liberia’s fifteen counties in advancing economic social and cultural rights in Liberia
  • Participation, contribution, mobilization and establishment of the Natural Resources Women Platform to increase the visibility of natural resource-dependent women in Liberia as a way of understanding their needs, problems and motivations as well as amplify their voices against the exploitation of their community-based natural resources and ensuring their full participation through organization and capacity building in the control and management of these resources
  • The organization of annual consultation and solidarity event under the ARD as the single largest social and solidarity movement in Liberia and most representative NGO/CSO, community-based network, informal sector organization, independent union
  • At the regional level, the participation, contribution and establishment of the Mano River Union Civil Society Natural Resources Governance and Rights Platform
  • At the International level, the Participation, contribution and establishment of the Kimberley Process Civil Society Coalition
  • Published several reports on human rights issues in collaboration with other international organizations including SOMO of the Netherlands

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