PACJA, partners launch the African Activists Climate Justice Project

Mombasa, Kenya| November 22 2021: The Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) is collaborating with four other institutions to launch the African Activists for Climate Justice Project today, Monday the November 22 2021 in Mombasa, Kenya.

The African Activists for Climate Justice (AACJ) is a five-year programme funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands. The programme will be implemented in eight African countries: Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Senegal, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Mozambique and South Africa. The Project’s goal is to amplify and unite the voices in Africa demanding that women, youth and local and indigenous communities in the target countries can defend and realize their human rights and live a decent and dignified life in a healthy and sustainable environment, within the context of the climate emergency.

The Consortium 

The AACJ consortium is led by the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA), a coalition of over 1000 civil society organisations spread across 48 countries in the African continent that promote climate justice. Other consortium members include: Natural Justice, Oxfam Novib, FEMNET and African Youth Commission as implementing partner. The AACJ consortium believes that building strong and inclusive movements for climate justice in African, starting with the target countries, will be an engine for a powerful pan-African movement for climate justice. 

Purpose

This launch brings together stakeholders in governments, multilateral agencies and civil society organisations across Africa and beyond to raise and build awareness about the AACJ Project. This event will also lay the ground for future engagements that will help AACJ consortium in building a strong inclusive African movement for Climate Justice.  Specifically, this launch will:

• Create awareness of AACJ Project’s strategic objective of creating a strong and inclusive Pan African movement that can mobilize citizens, companies and governments to advance Climate Justice cause.
• Provide an opportunity for the AACJ consortium to reach out to external stakeholders and build relations and alliances that will create an enabling environment for the implementation of the programme.
• Blend and create harmony amongst the consortium staff for implementation of the project.
• Create a platform for the project stakeholders to deliberate on post COP26 and how some of the project activities will help advance the outcomes of COP26.

Outcomes

The project launch will contribute to enhancing capacity and understanding of the concerned stakeholders across multiple sectors on the challenges paused by climate change and the need for action.

The Consortium will also use this opportunity to outline the programme’s key outcomes and their contribution to Africa’s priorities as regards climate justice.