What We Do

 


GEI is dedicated to empowering vulnerable populations—especially indigenous and local communities—to have a real voice in climate change policy and biodiversity protection.

 


We understand that
things need to change.

 


GEI provides expertise in environmental governance and stakeholder engagement to help its partners reach their ecosystem resilience and social justice goals.

We work directly with local communities, as well as in partnership with multilateral institutions, conservation organizations, businesses and governments, in such endeavors as:

  • Promoting implementation of existing laws aimed at encouraging public participation in climate and biodiversity protection

  • Writing new laws to expand the reach of local communities and promote good governance

  • Interviewing stakeholders to assess whether and how their voices are being heard

  • Evaluating programs aimed at inclusive climate and biodiversity action

  • Providing strategic advice about where legal reform and community engagement will have the greatest impact

 

What we can do for you

  • Confidential Organizational Advice
    strategic planning, ESG capacity

  • Problem-Solving
    legal analysis, project design and implementation

  • Outreach to Partners
    stakeholder interviews, negotiations with governments

  • Report Preparation

Our work is not bound to any region of the globe.

  • GEI was engaged to evaluate legal reform processes in Africa and Asia focused on forests. Lessons on effective participation were gleaned for future legal reform efforts to better ensure development of inclusive and strong forest laws. The findings were broadly highlighted in a recently published policy brief.

  • GEI is supporting collaborative, indigenous-led climate advocacy and action in the Pacific — a part of the world amongst the hardest hit by climate change. To advance opportunities for greater impact, we are helping to strategize ways in which such voices can be heard.

  • GEI has been working with local partners in a comprehensive and informed analysis of Cambodia’s legal framework pertaining to community protected areas—a form of community-based natural resources management—to aid in legal reform and advocacy efforts to improve the framework and its implementation.