The EREV Institute is partnered with numerous institutions. It is a subsidiary body of the Earth Rights Institute, which is affiliated with the United Nations financing for Development, the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and the United Nations Commission for Sustainable Development. To read more about the Earth Rights Institute and its affiliations, please visit the
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Present Partners:
Members of Senegals Eco-Village Movement:
Global Ecovillages Network
(GENSEN): a country-wide network co-founded by EREV staff under the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) Europe, Middle East and Africa Regional office. We work in partnership with GENSEN to provide services and educational programs in its network of 45 eco-villages.
Agence Nationale des EcoVillages
(ANEV), or the National Ecovillage Agency: founded in 2009 by President Abdoulaye Wade with a mandate of transforming all 14,000 of the country's small villages into ecovillages.
Senegal Ecovillage Microcredit Fund (SEM): an institutional partner created in 2004 by a student in our sustainable development study abroad program which evolved into its own organization.
ICVolunteers (ICV): engineering the ETIC program for agriculture in regions bordering the Sahara. This involves a participatory approach with communication technologies and development of sustainable practices.
Academic Partners:
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
, African Studies Department and Institute of the Environment
Living Routes Study Abroad in Ecovillages Program with the University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Gaia Education, with the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN)
The CRESP Center for Transformative Action, Cornell University
Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal
UNESCO Chair in integrated management and sustainable development of coastal areas and small islands
, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UCAD (2004)
Institut de Santé et de Développement (ISED), Faculty of Medicine, UCAD (2002)
Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies de Nutrition et Alimentation, UCAD
Laval University Department of human nutrition and consumption, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Food, Québec, Canada
Other Institutional Partners:
Ministry of Education, Senegal
Open Society Network in West Africa (OSIWA-Soros Foundation)
Global Environmental Fund (GEF)
Plan International
Babajide Foundation
The Sarnat/Hoffman Family Foundation
** Please click here for a list of the EREV Institute's past partners and funders.