Moroccan platform to support PACJA Access to Energy project

The Pan African Climate Justice Alliance Moroccan Chapter, the Moroccan environmental civil society (represented by the Association of Teachers of Life and Earth Sciences) will coordinate a German government-supported Ensuring a people-centred just transition in Africa through civil society engagement project.

A PACJA project, is coordinated by the African Coalition for Sustainable Energy Access (ACSEA) and implemented in five African countries –Botswana, Cameroon, Kenya, Morocco and Nigeria).  The project aims at enhancing energy transition that is sustainable and people-oriented

At a meeting organized from April 12 and 13, 2022 in Rabat and Casablanca, the Ensuring a people-centred just transition in Africa through civil society engagement and one other PACJA project, the GUARD were launched to galvanise the civil societies’ engagements.

As part of the implementation of its 2021/2030 framework strategy and its 2021/2025 plan 2021/2025, at the level of African countries, in collaboration with several associations and African networks, and as its focal point in Morocco the Association des Enseignants des Sciences de la Vie et de la Terre du Maroc (AESVT), the IKI project provides the opportunity for a strong movement building for just energy transition in the country as well as the Maghreb region. Already, other Moroccan actors and in particular the Ministry of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development have bought into the ideals of the IKI project and what it entails for the Moroccan society.

Since 2009, the Moroccan environmental civil society has become a valued and an active member of PACJA in the Maghreb region.

The Moroccan civil society has actively engaged in the UN, the AMCEN and other climate discussion process in the region on behalf of PACJA.

Besides the IKI, the Moroccan CSOs will also implement the GUARD Africa: Galvanizing and Unifying Africa’s Action for Resilient Development in the Era of COVID 19, with the support of the Swedish Development Agency (SIDA), it will cover 12 countries (Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Rwanda,  Niger, Cameroon, Zambia, Botswana, Morocco, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, and Gabon)

 The objectives of the workshop were to support the African positioning of the environmental civil society civil society, contribute to the promotion of the Moroccan climate strategy at the African level African level and raise awareness of the major challenges facing Morocco in terms of sustainable development and climate change. In addition, the workshop was to strengthen the capacities of Moroccan actors on the importance of the implementation of the post-Covid low-carbon strategy19 and prepare the participation of Moroccan civil society in the COP 27.