About Us

Neighbourhood Environment Watch (NEW) Foundation, is a non Governmental Organisation with Special Consultative Status of the UN ECOSOC.  NEW Foundation is an environment focused nongovernmental
organisation with a country office in Nigeria. NEW Foundation works to inspire
collective action towards environmental governance that ensures a healthy and
suitable livelihood. Our programs address governance failures that exacerbate
environmental pollution, poverty, and hunger. We work with partners such as
USAID/FHI360, UNOPS-UNDP, UNICEF and other national and international donors to
build the capacity of poor, underserved communities in Nigeria and West Africa,
building platforms for participatory governance and other cross-cutting issues
including natural resource governance, gender mainstreaming, and social justice. 

Neighbourhood Environment Watch
(NEW) Foundation has a Special Consultative Status of the United
Nations Economic and Social Council (UN-ECOSOC). NEW Foundation is
a legal entity, registered with the Nigeria Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC)
as a non-political, not-for-profit, and non-governmental organization (CAC/IT:
33938) and also registered with the National Planning, (NPC) Abuja (NPC/NGO-IC/S.641/1/51)
and with the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) Abuja (ID: 97987752)

Our Theory of Change is based on
models that drive systemic change. It is premised on the equality of rights, access
to resources, capacity building, and empowerment, by removing root causes and
drivers of poverty and hunger.

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