Eco-vital is woman-led non-profit, non-religious, non-political, and non-governmental organization based in Erbil, Iraq established to counter the impact of climate change and environmental degradation.
Iraq is among the top five countries most affected by climate change. Increase in the mean temperature, more frequent extreme temperature events, and shifting rain patterns have been evident in the country. The agricultural sector is one of the first to experience the consequences of climate change; with small-scale farmers being among the most affected groups. Many farmers have left agriculture seeking livelihood opportunities in urban areas, resulting in additional social and economic challenges.
Air pollution is moderate to toxic in Iraq due to unregulated energy and transport sectors. Environmental health as a consequence of poor air quality is causing respiratory infections and cases of cancer is reported from oil factories.
Eco-Vital aims to address these challenges through evident-based research, education, advocacy and promoting social, economic and environmental sustainability.
A healthy environment will lead to healthier communities and a healthier planet for all.
Through environmentally sustainable initiatives, communities will have make informed decisions to conduct sustainable practices that will build their resilience, self-sufficiency, which will foster creative and meaningful sustainable development for all.
Commitment: We are committed to achieving our best to support our organization’s mission to improve the environment.
Respect: We respect the identity and dignity of each individual; we cherish diversity and respect the know-how, work and ideas of our stakeholders including communities, partners, donors and colleagues.
Sense of responsibility: We are aware of our social, environmental and economic responsibility and want to contribute to the mitigation of climate change and eliminating poverty and to build a sustainable world based on research and advocacy efforts.
Integrity: At all levels of work, and without any personal advantage, we guarantee dignity, trustworthiness, sincerity and honesty.
Transparency: We transparently make decisions following systems and processes that we abide by.
Eco-Vital’s social media accounts have been created to better engage with those involved and interested in our work. Eco-Vital is committed to responding to constructive and relevant comments posted to the account. However, we want the account to be a safe space for everyone and all those engaging with the account. With that in mind, we ask that all contributions are constructive, respectful, and contain language that is appropriate for all groups and ages. We, therefore, reserve the right to block users from engaging with the account that are:
All comments from users which violate the terms listed above will be immediately blocked and, if appropriate, passed to the relevant social media channel for further action.
This policy describes how Eco-Vital and affiliates collect, use and share information collected through our website by our team.and meaningful sustainable development for all.
Eco-Vital is an NGO that addresses climate change and enhances the environment through community-led projects. Additionally, we provide environmental consulting services and sell eco-friendly merchandize for the purpose of sustaining the organization and not for profit. This privacy policy is designed to give you information as to how we will obtain and process personal data relating to you in connection with the services we provide to you. It is important that you read this Privacy Policy together with any other privacy notice or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you.
Eco-Vital is committed to protecting your personal information. We will process your personal data as a “data controller”. This means that we have responsibility (on our own or acting jointly with another party) for deciding how we hold and use personal data relating to you.
Information we may process
We use the information we receive and store about you in connection with our work:
The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored within the organization only, but may be provided to government security agencies upon presenting a legitimate legal concern. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing.
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our board. We may also disclose personal data to third party service providers who process data on our behalf, such as IT support and professional advisers including lawyers and auditors. Otherwise we will not disclose your personal information to third parties unless you have consented to us sharing your personal information in this way or we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation.
Your information is yours, and we have put in place security measures to prevent your personal information from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed.
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
You have certain rights in respect of the personal data that we process about you:
Please contact us at info@eco-vital.org