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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