Activities
The Pan African Vision for the Environment (PAVE) is a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) accredited Lagos based non- profit, non-political, non-governmental organization established with the aim of promoting sustainable development through research, documentation, policy dialogues, workshops, advocacy and consultancy services.
PAVE deals with development issues in their environmental and socio-economic aspects with emphasis on the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) targets regarding water and sanitation and other related human settlement issues including Agricultural Value Chain promotion, Gender, Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Climate change and Clean Energy promotion, Waste Management including E-Waste, Chemical Management, Blue Economy, Ocean Citizen Awareness and Literacy and Stakeholder Engagement. PAVE is registered (IT/NO: 26029) with the Corporate Affairs Commission in Nigeria.
The chosen mission of PAVE is to act as a catalyst, mobilize, mediate and act directly in several of society’s processes dealing with the improvement of quality of life and respect for cultural and biological diversity. As its basis, PAVE believes in promoting good governance at all level, across all sectors, be it public or private. PAVE also believes in a democratic system for managing human interests.
The fundamental objective of PAVE is to act, support and collaborate in the elaboration and dissemination of new approaches, policies and activities related to human development questions.
We have over 20 years experience in the development sector and work at the local, national, regional and international level. We have presented papers conducted researches and organized capacity building workshops on various sustainable development thematic areas in Africa, Asia, Europe, South and North America.
PROFESSIONAL
AFFILIATIONS:
Nigeria Civil Society Network on Water &
Sanitation (NEWSAN)
Consulting Partner, Global Water Partnership
(GWP), Sweden
Freshwater Action Network (FAN), London,
UK
Africa Civil Society Network on Water and
Sanitation (ANEW)
Low Emission Development LEDS Global
Partnership, U.S.A
UNECA Africa Climate Development Society
Global Gender and Climate Alliance (GGCA)
Gender and Water Alliance (GWA),
Netherlands
West Africa Regional Coordinator, Initiative
For Equality (IFE), www.initiativeforequality.org, U.S.A
Member, International Water Resource Economics
Consortium (IWREC), University of California, Riverside, U.S.A
Resource Partner, The Climate Technology
Initiative Private Financing Advisory Network (CTI PFAN), Japan
Policy Advocacy Project Partnership on Climate
Change, Lagos, Nigeria
National Organizer for Nigeria, Stockholm
Junior Water Prize (2015-2017), Sweden
Collaborating with the Faculty and Graduate
Students from the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of
California, Berkeley in the USA to investigate new strategies to explore how
the
human rights to water and sanitation can be successfully realized in Nigeria
using Lagos as a Case Study.
Member, UNEP Advisory Group for the Marine
Litter Study (UNEA-2) representing Gender and Water Alliance (GWA),
Netherlands.
Member, Network for Water in European Regions
and Cities (NETWERC H2O), Spain.
Member, Water Ethics Working Group,
Sustainable Water Future Programme, Australia
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES
ATTENDED:
World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden (2001,
2002, 2003, 2009,2014)
3rd World Water Forum, Japan (March 2003)
Third Water Development Policy Forum, Berlin,
Germany (March 2004)
Meeting with EU Parliamentarians, Brussels
(March 2004)
4th world Water Forum, Mexico (March
2006)
3rd World Urban Forum, Vancouver, Canada, June
2006
WaterAid Urban Research and Learning Workshop
19-23 Feb, 2007, Jinja, Uganda
WaterAid TOT Urban Water and Sanitation
Reforms, Kathmandu, Nepal, 20-24 July, 2009.
6th World Water Forum, Marseilles,
France( March 2012)
4th International Climate Change Adaptation
Conference, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 10-13 May, 2016
Smart Villages, West Africa Regional Workshop
on Off-Grid Energy Access , May 23 – May
25, 2016, Accra, Ghana
Regional
Training on International
Water Law (IWL)
for improved transboundary water management in Africa,
5th-12th June 2016, Kampala, Uganda.
Under Western Skies Conference, Mount Royal
University, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 27-30 September, 2016
8th World Water Forum, Brasilia, Brasil,
18th-23rd March 2018
SELECTED
PROJECTS/CONSULTANCIES IMPLEMENTED:
Akpan, Anthony. J: The Role Of Water Vendors
In The Apapa/ Iganmu, Alimosho, Shomolu, Ajeromi And Ifelodun Areas Of Lagos.
Research Consultancy – DFID / State and Local Government Programme 2005
17th National Council on Water Resources,
Sub-Committee on Water Supply and Sanitation 18th -19th March 2005, Abuja, Nigeria
The Lagos Water Sector Reform Monitoring which
was aimed at monitoring the Lagos State Private Sector Participation (PSP) in
the water privatization exercise under the World Bank assisted US$220 Million
Second National Urban Water Reform
Project. 2005/2006 . This project facilitated CSOs participation resulting in
the adoption of the Citizen feedback Mechanism in the project.
Anglophone West Africa GWA Regional Strategic
Planning Workshop, 3-6 October 2007. This agreement is made between the Gender
and Water Alliance Secretariat in Dieren, the Netherlands, herein after
referred to as the GWA and the NGO Pan African Vision for the Environment in
Lagos, hereafter referred to as the PAVE. This contract pertains to the
contribution of PAVE regarding the organization and implementation of a
regional Anglophone West Africa GWA Workshop for planning a regional programme
on Mainstreaming Gender in Integrated Water Resources Management.
I was part of a team of consultants that
supported the Osun State Ministry of Water Resources and Rural Development to
develop a State Water Supply and Sanitation Policy and to carry out
Organizational, Technical, Financial and Commercial Reviews of Osun State Water
Corporation including PSP assessment in 2008, under the Osun State Technical
Unit of the European Union and UNICEF supported Water Supply and Sanitation
Sector Reform Programme (EU-WSSSRP).
UNDP/GEF funded Nigerian Africa Stockpiles
Programme Implementation Network (NASPIN)/ Pan- African Vision For The Environment
(PAVE) research project on Community action to reduce the Pollution load of
POPs and Other Toxic Effluents (PTS) into Lagos Lagoon, Lagos State which seeks
to generate global and national environmental benefits by effective management
of POPs in the Lagos Lagoon through engagement with communities and businesses.
October, 2010-September 2011.
DFID Consultancy on The Role of Private Sector
in the Achievement of the MDGs in Nigeria, August 2011
Enhancing the Role of Water Vendors in the
sustainable and safe water provisioning services, Exhibition/presentation at
the Village of Solutions, 6th World Water Forum, Marseille, France, March
2012.
Foundation for Environmental Security and
Sustainability (FESS)/ United States Agency for International Development
(USAID) Research Consultancy on
“Climate Change and Conflict: New Vulnerabilities in West Africa.” August 2013.
Hosting and coordinating Research
collaboration with the Faculty and Graduate Students from the Department of
City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley in the USA
to investigate new strategies to explore how the human rights to water and
sanitation can be successfully realized in Nigeria using Lagos as a Case Study.
Using the access criteria delineated by the United Nations Special Rapporteur
on the human rights to water and sanitation, we created and piloted a mobile
phone survey application for local community members, aid organizations and
officials to collect and monitor data on water and sanitation conditions in
urban Lagos. In addition, we carried out participatory mapping activities with
community members to identify environmental barriers that impact access to safe
water. July, 2015.
Hosting and supervision of the MSc Thesis
research fieldwork of Ms. Tessel Kuijten
from the University of Amsterdam on the role of Energy Multinationals in
contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals, through a case study on
Shell in Nigeria. August, 2015.
The UNEP Secretariat invited PAVE to a
three-day meeting of the Advisory Group for the United Nations Environment
Assembly (UNEA-2) Second study on marine plastic debris and microplastics of
which we are a member representing the Gender and Water Alliance (GWA) in the
Netherlands. The meeting was held from 8 to 10 December 2015, at UNEP
headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya,
Presented a Paper "Stakeholder
Engagement: A Key Necessity for Water
Sector Reform in Nigeria" at the Federal Ministry of Water Resources World Bank assisted 3rd National Urban Water
Sector Project Launch Workshop, February16-17, 2016 held at the Sheraton
Hotels, Abuja, Nigeria.
Presented a Paper " Enhancing The Use Of
Indigenous Knowledge On Climate Change Mitigation And Adaptation In Nigeria" at the 4th International
Climate Change Adaptation Conference, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 10-13 May,
2016.
Presented a paper “The Urgency of Water
Security: A key Necessity for Understanding the Water SDG Interlinkages” at the
Under Western Skies Conference, Mount Royal University, Calgary, Alberta,
Canada, 27-30 September, 2016.
Submitted an Accepted Paper ”Designing and
Implementing National Monitoring Systems: A key Necessity for Adaptation to
Climate Change” at the Metrics of Adaptation Conference, Skhirat, Morocco, 27
September, 2016.
Conceptualised and facilitated the first ever
Regional Conference on the Role of State Legislators in the Achievement of
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that took place at Midas Hotel Ado Ekiti,
Ekiti State on Wednesday 5th & Thursday 6th October 2016 for Legislators in
south-west Nigeria, with the support of the UK Government Department for International Development
(DFID) .
Water and Sanitation Education for Schools and
Communities, Exhibition/presentation at the
8th World Water Forum, Brasilia, Brasil, March 2018.
Expert
Member, Work Package 6 Ocean literacy, ANNCHOR, All Atlantic Ocean Research
Forum, 5-7, February, 2020, Brussels, Belgium
