bonn office
About the Bonn Office
Hosting the headquarters of many United Nations Agencies and Offices as well as international non-governmental organizations, Bonn has become a hub for international cooperation related to sustainable development under the motto “Shaping a Sustainable Future”.
Many evangelical alliances and churches already work on issues related to the Sustainable Development Goals / 2030 Agenda. The WEA seeks to further increase the impact and visibility of their engagement on different levels and to communicate evangelical beliefs and perspectives more effectively to global and national stakeholders.
Against this background, the WEA establishes an office in Bonn to reinforce efforts to connect the work of the WEA to the activities and structures of the United Nations as well as other actors in the Bonn ecosystem. The new WEA platform comprises three offices:
The WEA Liaison Office at the United Nations
In addition to the Liaison Offices at the United Nations in New York City (USA) and Geneva (Switzerland), the WEA establishes a Liaison Office at the United Nations in Bonn in order to strengthen stakeholder engagement and deepen the connections between its constituents and international and national policy-makers.
WEA Sustainability Center (WEASC)
The purpose of the center is to help equip the global evangelical community–individuals, churches, and ministries–to actively care for creation as part of Christian discipleship and the calling God gives us to be agents of God’s shalom in the world. This also involves representing an evangelical voice regarding creation care at the United Nations, and other global bodies concerned with creation care.
At the global level creation care intersects with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s)/ 2030 Agenda, which are the policies and targets for environmental sustainability researched, negotiated, and agreed to by the international community. The United Nations and national governments have recognized that the SDG’s cannot be achieved without engaging religious organizations and communities, thus they have created various initiatives to cooperate with religious actors. The WEA will connect with the United Nations, governments and other (religious and faith-based) non-governmental organizations in order to contribute to the implementation of the SDG’s. The WEASC will use its platform to engage with international organizations, governments and like-minded NGOs to help connect and leverage the capacities of evangelical creation care organizations for greater impact at national and global levels.
For more information about the WEA Sustainability Center, visit wea-sc.org
Bonn Team
Matthias K. Boehning, Co-Director, WEA Sustainability Center
Chris Elisara, Ph.D, Co-Director, WEA Sustainability Center
Allen Drew, Project Support Officer, Creation Care
Samuel Richmond, Project Support Officer, SDGs
Julia Sáez, Special Advisor, Food and Agriculture Sustainability
Nshizirungu Hubert, Project Assistant
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News, Reports & Updates
First-Ever Joint WEA-UN Session Takes Place in the German UN Hub in Bonn
By WEA Sustainability Center Last week, the first ever joint session between the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) and United Nations Agencies took place in Bonn,