Nigerian Environment Study Action Team Nigerian Environmental Study Action Team (NEST) is a leading not-for-profit organization operating in Nigeria for the past 28 yearswith her headquarters in Ibadan Oyo state. NEST has been engaged in policy-relevant research and awareness-raising activities in Nigeria since 1987. NEST is a membership organization.  Our goal is to act in concert with a nationwide membership to sensitize and empower Nigerians on environment and sustainable development, through the dissemination of factual information, training on skills andpromotion of sustainable livelihoods.  Membership includes all that are capable of contributing to the attainment of NEST objectives, without discrimination as to gender, ethnicity, politics or religion.
NEST achieves its mission of empowering people through the following operational objectives:
# Conducting and promoting knowledge-building in all areas of human interaction with the environment;
# Providing stakeholders with appropriate and current information and perspectives on thestatus of the Nigerian environment;
# Stimulating debate on and increasing awareness of the consequences of human actions on the environment;
# Sensitizing policy makers of the need to pursue sustainable development;
# Facilitating the development of sustainable livelihoods at the grassroots level through enterprise systems;
# Addressing environmental issues that specifically affect disadvantaged groups, particularly women and children; and
# Networking and collaborating with other organizations, local and international, working on environmental and sustainabledevelopment issues.

Legal Entity and Affiliations
NEST is registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission, (Certificate No CAC/IT/NO 5185) and also registered with the National Planning Commission (Reference: NPC/NGO/-IC/SEC. 409). NEST is a paid up member of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) (Membership ID: NG/1605)) and also advocated for state membership of IUCN by Nigeria. NEST participates in IUCN Congressmeetings and is a member of the Regional and International Networking Group (RING) of sustainable development policy research organizations, anchored by IIED, London.  Membership of the RING links NEST internationally to several other north and south organizations, including the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) London, Stockholm Environmental Institute (SEI) Boston and Thailand, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), Canada; Development Alternatives (DA)of India; Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) of Pakistan; Bangladesh Centre for AdvancedStudies (BCAS); ZERO Regional Environment Organization of Zimbabwe; ENDA of Senegal and IIED America Latina (IIED-AL) of Argentina. SAREC, NORAD and BMZhave largely funded RING activities.
This organization will support R2F in Nigeria by helping to capture and systematize cases/experiences representing and show-casing gender work, from which a common R2F narrative on gender will be drawn.
Starting point will be a general mapping out of the experiences, according to a common conceptual framework, that will serve as reference for the overall analysis. Countries in consultation with the gender advisor in The Hague might prioritize the experiences thatarethe most suitable for in depth analysis.
Analysis of cases done by countries together with partners.