GRET is an international solidarity organisation
that aims to improve vulnerable populations’ living conditions, promote social justice, and conserve our planet
GRET is committed to contributing to a sustainable, viable world with less inequalities: this is the political significance of the collective actions we conduct, through innovation, sharing of experiences and a strong presence in the field.
Luc Arnaud, Executive Director of GRET
In Togo, cities are faced with growing waste management problems generating degradation of the environment and exposing inhabitants to major health risks. With the 2019 law on decentralisation, responsibility for waste management was transferred to communes, which are now on the front line regarding actions to be undertaken to meet…
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GRET has released its 2022 annual report, detailing a year of particularly substantial development for the organisation and its 789 employees, as underlined by its chairperson, Henry de Cazotte: “despite pressing climate news and the exacerbation of geopolitical risks, GRET’s teams multiplied their efforts in all fields to achieve the…
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“Commoning” is a video series that focuses on the commons and the way GRET puts them into practice. In this case, we hear from local water platform members in the Niayes region in Senegal. As forums of local governance, these citizen-led platforms bring user representatives, State technical services and communes…
Read moreGRET produces and disseminates references: from its practice, it produces and disseminates knowledge, know-how, methods tested, evaluated and improved in the field.
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The Bamboo programme through the prism of the commons
