PACJA, In Our Own Words and Actions: A decade of accomplishments

Over  the  past  decade  of the existence of the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA),  the  organisation  has  swiftly  and  deliberatively  evolved  from  a  group  of  people  with  an  idea,  to  a  versatile  powerhouse.

PACJA has derived its mandate  to responsibly  conceptualise, co-create, convene, collaborate on behalf of the African peoples’ quest for freedom from the threats of climate change. Further, PACJA has carried out outreaches in its advocacy, and activism in developing a unique narrative and compelling policy changes and systems transformation.

PACJA  has  convened  over  10000  CSO  representatives,  indigenous  groups, national platforms, parliamentarians, etc. from every nation on the  African  continent.  We  have  been  joined  by  comrades,  advocates,  and  allies  from  industrialised  and  other  Global  South  nations,  at  over  350  meetings.

These have included parallel events to the UNFCCC-related meetings, side-events, and convenings of the African Union, UN agencies and other intergovernmental processes. We have had national and subnational convergences from Washington DC to Windhoek Namibia, including the now-famous 2011 trans-African Caravan of Hope.

In these regards, the youth, activists, experts, students, government entities and the media operators have been offered one form of scholarship or the other to participate in various capacity building sessions around climate discourses.

In  all  this  work,  PACJA  has  succeeded  in  utilising  a  combination  of  political  education,  research  and  policy  analysis,  strategic communications, and more, to catalyse thousands of Africans, to provide their own perspectives at decision making tables.

The Alliance has ensured that our approach to climate justice is elevated in prominence in regional, national and subnational contexts throughout the African Continent, as well as ensuring that African voices, demands and  aspirations  on  climate  justice  are  heard  and  heeded  in  global  conversations,  from  the  most  strategic  intergovernmental  platforms  such  as  United  Nations,  to  the  Halls  of  the  Congress  in  the  United  States,  to  10  Downing  Street  in  the  United  Kingdom,  and  beyond  in  other industrialised nations, as well as African and other Global South capitals.

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