The Africa Environmental Information Network (AEIN) is a multi-stakeholder capacity building process that aims to harness and enhance access to information and knowledge to support the management of Africa's environmental resources as assets for sustainable development.

Goal
"to strengthen the capacity of African countries to use good quality information on environmental assets to make informed investment choices at sub-national and national levels, and manage these assets on a sustainable basis".

Africa Environment Information Network (AEIN) is a direct outcome of the AEO process, a response to political and technical needs expressed by African Ministers of Environment, who endorsed the AEO process at the 9th Session of AMCEN (1-5 July, 2002) as "a monitoring and reporting tool for sustainable environmental management, as well as to provide a framework for national and sub-regional integrated environmental assessment and reporting."

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AEIN is designed to provide a broad framework for the effective harnessing of information and knowledge on environmental resources, and how people are affected by changes in the environment. This knowledge will be channeled into decision-making processes, particularly within the framework of national socio-economic development priorities, as well as the implementation of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD).

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The activity areas include:
. An integrated environmental assessment and reporting platform.
. A data development and exchange platform.
. An information and communications technology (ICT) platform.

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a) To build capacity for the development and management of core datasets for integrated environmental assessments and reporting at the national level;
b) To support and catalyze institutional networking and capacities related to the management of data and information at the sub-national, national, sub-regional, and regional levels.