Implementing Agency:
Department For International Development (PAND)

Managing Institute:
WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature)

Project Code: 048-680-006	Start Date: 01-Apr-90	End Date: 01-Mar-97
Commitment: £843,600	Status: Completed	Type of Funding: Bilateral - JFS

Project Background:
There is a range of environmental education projects currently being undertaken in Nigeria. Almost all of them, directly or indirectly involve the Nigerian Conservation Foundation which has been extremely effective in initiating and co-ordinating them. However, there is a need to set these individual initiatives in the context of an integrated environmental awareness and education programme in order to ensure that the aims and objectives of environmental education are being achieved across thewhole range of target audiences nationally.

However, there are daunting geographical, social, cultural, economic and demographic constraints imposed when considering Nigeria as a whole. Environmental agencies do not have finance, the personnel, the infrastructure or even the social influence.

Project Objectives:
To set up an appropriate and suitable environmental education programme for the rainforest belt of Nigeria.

Intended Outputs:
A small co-ordinating unit set up in the Nigerian Conservation Foundation, to co-ordinate new and exisiting initiatives in environmental education in Nigeria.

Efforts and resources concentrated on a few key modules across the range of target audiences.

Ways of delivering the environmental message through support for the work of existing institutions and programmes explored, tapping into their networks and reaching out to their constituencies.

Target audiences. In Nigeria, target audiences fall into three broad areas:

Public Awareness Sector

Formal Education Sector

Non-formal Education Sector