Animals across the globe experience care, love, and protection from human beings who live with them. Individuals, organizations, academia, institutions, groups, corporate companies, civil societies, and other stakeholders across the continent take these sentiments to heart, advocate and ensure that good animal welfare practices and principles is a major part of their lives. ANAW Network Partners provides a platform that is a culmination of celebrated collective occurrences, efforts, attitudes, and actions that promote animal welfare in Africa.
Members now have an informal forum to foster discourse that provides incisive happenings on what occurrences within the animal welfare field. The platform fosters discussion on crucial animal welfare topics such as cage free chicken farming, donkey welfare, turtle conservation, bushmeat trade, food safety, genetic modified organisms (GMOs), primate conservation, wildlife conservation, education and information and human–animal co-existence.
ANAW’s major objectives is to have a network of partners across Africa aimed at creating synergies in the promotion of humane treatment of all animals. The ANAW Network aims to provide a collaborative platform for all interested in advocating for and ensuring the best care and protection for all animals.
Objectives of ANAW Network Partners Program
- Promote animal welfare awareness in society through knowledge, skills and attitude change.
- Nurture ambassadors with the aim of working towards having a continent where people show compassion, protection, and care for all animals.
- Foster beneficial public participation in animal welfare programs, activities and events across the continent.
- Pursue a common agenda that will nurture a culture of advocating for good animal welfare practices.
- Promote and coordinate information sharing on animal welfare among the partners.
ANAW Network Partners Core Functions
- Working with partners across the continent, become Animal Welfare ambassadors and animal welfare champions in advocating for the welfare of animals in their countries, organizations, institutions and /or other spheres of influence.
- Initiate, coordinate and collaborate with other partners in planning and implementing animal welfare field activities in their countries, regions, institution, organizations and /or spheres of influence.
- Actively participate in trainings, seminars, workshops and conferences organized for partners.
- Convene, coordinate and host relevant stakeholder forums for the implementation of animal welfare and environmental initiatives.
- Advocate and support formulation, harmonization and implementation of coherent policies, strategies, guidelines, and legislation related to animal welfare and conservation.
- Play an advocacy role on matters relevant to animal welfare and conservation including increased engagement with communities, government, partners, public and private sector.
Benefits to ANAW Network Partners
- Access to a platform to voice common animal welfare and conservation interests.
- Opportunities to participate in animal welfare and conservation activities/campaigns such as anti-rabies, anti-poaching, desnaring and animal rescues.
- Opportunities to participate in animal welfare and conservation workshops, webinars as well as the annual international Africa Animal Welfare Conferences https://www.aawconference.org/
- Opportunities to participate in experiential learning trips and excursions.
- Access to a platform of sharing information, networking, and collaborations.
- Opportunity to participate in meetings organized by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA), United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
- Publicity on ANAW’s Website and social media pages, where agreed on.
- Where appropriate, certificates and/or plaques may be issued.
In order to join or if you need further information on kindly contact us on email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or on Telephone +254798452625. We are looking forward to your joining the ANAW Network and to being part of the change agent impacting animal welfare, wildlife, and environmental conservation.
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