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The Pan-African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) is a Consortium of more than 2000 organizations from 54 African countries that brings together a diverse membership drawn from Grassroots, Community-based organizations, Faith-based Organizations, Non-Governmental organizations, Trusts, Foundations, Indigenous Communities, Farmers, and Pastoralist Groups with a shared vision to advance a people-centered, rights-based, just, and inclusive approach to address climate and environmental challenges facing humanity and the planet.

Established in 2008 in South Africa and headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, PACJA collaborates with Intergovernmental Agencies in Africa and governments through its national Platforms, in addition to other key actors such as media, parliamentarians, and sector-based networks through targeted and dedicated initiatives tailor-made for respective stakeholders’ groups.

As an existential threat to humanity and the health of the planet, climate change is exacerbating food insecurity, land degradation, population displacement, and stress on water resources in African countries and globally. It has also increased the violation of rights and destruction of ecosystems, with environmental defenders and activists facing increased threats. Despite this stark reality, many African citizens are yet to appreciate the impact of climate change on their day-to-day struggles and livelihoods and do not yet connect the multiple challenges they face from the global systemic causes of the climate crisis.

It is with this background that PACJA, Oxfam Novib, African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET), Natural Justice, and the African Youth Commission (AYC) came together under the African Activists for Climate Justice (AACJ) Consortium, with the ultimate aim of unifying and amplifying the voices of those most marginalized in Africa’s climate change policy processes and interventions.

Funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Consortium seeks to ensure that the most vulnerable groups—women, youth, local, and indigenous communities—in the target countries and beyond have the capacity to 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 AACJ Consortium believes that it is hugely unjust that people who have contributed the least to the changing climate are the most affected by its impacts. Operating in Burkina Faso, Netherlands, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Somalia, South Africa, and Senegal, the Consortium’s collective conviction is that the causes and effects of climate change, and the solutions thereto, must be consistent much more strongly to concepts of justice, in particular, environmental justice and social justice.

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