A Sustainable Future is Possible!

Center for Sustainable Transformation - CeST - works broadly with sustainability issues to provide solutions to public and private institutions in Ghana and beyond. Our work covers all of the UNs 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with a specific focus on the environmental pillar of the SDGs. Specifically, we provide Education for Sustainable Development (ESD).

CeST holds the concession to run the global programs of Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) in Ghana, endorsed by the Ghana Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Ghana Education Service (GES). Our active programs are currently Eco-Schools, Eco-Campus, and Young Reporters for the Environment (YRE).

Our Policy objectives:

• To build a learning society for sustainable transformation by empowering people, communities, and institutions.
• To Educate, Certify and provide Consultancy on sustainability by working with other civil society organizations, and public and private organizations.
• Develop knowledge, materials, and new innovations for a sustainable transformation of institutions and society.
• Collaborate with like-minded organizations and government MDAs for a holistic and inclusive sustainable transformation of society.

Eco-Campus is an international award program that provides a framework to guide higher education institutions on their sustainable journey and model sustainability as an integral part of campus life and learning involving staff, teachers and the student body as well as the broader community. In Ghana the program is run by CeST as national operator but owned by Foundation for Environmental Education whose educational programmes, including Eco-Campus, are currently empowering students in over 77 countries to lead for sustainability and to develop responsible attitudes towards the environment, culture and society and create value for the wider community.

The Eco-Campus program encourages higher education institutions to assess their environmental performance and implement a plan for continuous improvement. This can involve a range of activities and initiatives, such as improving waste management, reducing energy and water consumption and promoting the use of sustainable transport. Best practice includes both student driven activities and projects and theory integrated in the curricula.

The goal of Eco-Campus is to create a culture for sustainability in-terms of theoretical and practical learning.