Restoring the pursuit of wellbeing within a human development framework based on a less-degraded ecological environment and an adapted socio-economic environment.
Mission
Actions
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women and environmental law
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green and circular economy
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environmental education
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research and innovation
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youth and green entrepreneurship
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social action and volunteering
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human rights for a healthy environment
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migration-climate/gender-climate
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biodiversity conservation
History
JEVEV (Youth and Green Jobs for a Green Economy) was created on 18 September 2010 in Benin by young people, originally as a think tank called ‘Friends of Fauna and Flora’, promoting sustainable development and green entrepreneurship.
Following mobilisation around the degradation of the lower Oueme valley – the second-richest such basin after the Nile, threatened by water hyacinth causing severe seasonal eutrophication and anoxia fatal to fisheries that over a hundred species and much of the regional economy depend on – the organisation was formalised in 2013, placing youth and women at the heart of the ecological transition.
JEVEV now operates nationwide in Benin, recognised through a framework agreement (N232/MJL/SP-C) with government and accreditation with the Ministry of Living Environment and Sustainable Development.
It has received several awards:
• the 2023 Human Rights for a Healthy Environment Prize (New York, Global Coalition)
• the 2024 Climate Migration Prize (Geneva)
• 2023 ClimAccelerator Adaptation & Resilience nomination
• 2017 Climate Initiative Trophy nomination at COP23 (Bonn)
• 2017 ‘Best sustainable development project in a wetland area’ award from France24 Observers
About
JEVEV
Bénin