ELCI promotes networking between NGOs working towards sustainable development through a structure of functional units: issue based networks; constituency development and capacity building; research and documentation; external relations; environment and development information exchange (EDIE); media and publications. Has an international network membership of some 840 NGOs.
Services/programmes based on these include
(a) Econews Africa: see separate entry
(b) ELCI News / Ecoforum / Environment-Development News bulletins.
(c) Directory of francophone NGOs