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AACJ-South Africa
General
The AACJ programme will be implemented in eight African countries: Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Mozambique, Senegal, Somalia and South Africa. The AACJ consortium believes that building strong and inclusive movements for climate justice in these countries can be the engine for a powerful pan-African movement for climate justice. For the AACJ consortium, climate justice means all people have the right to live a decent and dignified life in a healthy environment. We believe that curbing climate change and enabling all people to build resilience and recover from climate-related shocks is key to break the vicious cycle of inequality and vulnerability. The impacts of climate change are not being borne equally or fairly, between rich and poor, women and men, and older and younger generations. The voices of frontline communities who both offer solutions to protect our climate and face the harshest consequences of the immediate impacts of climate change, are excluded from the policy debates shaping their futures. Their voices are often also isolated as opposed to aligned and lack the capacity to come together in unified front calling for action. The goal of our programme is to amplify and unite the voices in Africa demanding that women, youth and local and indigenous communities in the 8 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. We will not only respond to power asymmetries within countries, but also challenge asymmetries of power between countries. We will connect with movements outside Africa, such as Climate Action Network Europe, jointly challenging unaccountable governments and unsustainable production and consumption patterns. Making these connections will help increase solidarity across communities and make the global climate movement more inclusive and legitimate. We will work from local to regional to global level, and vice versa. We will amplify local voices – communicating both struggles and positive experiences – to advocate for strong climate policies and national laws, and demand and monitor their implementation. We will use progressive frameworks, such as the Paris Agreement, the Africa 2063 Agenda and the SDGs to influence national governments and companies for positive changes in people’s lives The AACJ consortium believes that clear and compelling narratives play a crucial to increase the engagement of youth, women and local and indigenous communities in the debate and policy processes on climate justice. Taking people’s lived experience as a starting point, these narratives will play a key role in raising awareness, unveiling prejudices and stereotypes, debunking lies and rebalancing relations of power. The AACJ consortium will amplify African voices, encouraging environmental activists, indigenous leaders, women, youth, religious leaders, artists and opinion makers to share their personal experiences and contribution to addressing climate change. We will create safe spaces for traditionally sidelined groups to develop their own narratives which demonstrate their strength, resilience, innovative capacities and contributions to the climate crisis. We will ensure that these new narratives are shared and spread through climate debates and policy processes, connecting policy makers with people on the frontline of the climate crisis. With will connect activists, movements and communities with popular media (TV talk shows, radio call-ins and other interactive platforms) to enable exchange of ideas and information, foster understanding and increase public awareness on how women, youth and local and indigenous communities are experiencing and coping with climate change. The role of FEMNET will be indispensable to implementing Pathway 2 by creating counter narratives to help shift the discourse on changing the discourse on climate change
Objectives
STRATEGIC COUNTRY OBJECTIVE: Strengthening CSOs platforms and engaging with key climate actors working with women, youth, Indigenous People and Local Communities to promote an inclusive and human rights-based approach to climate action. The programme will contribute to the following impact Impact areas Impact Outcome 1: Strong, inclusive, and effective civil society promotes climate justice. Climate movements are driven by women, youth and Indigenous People and connected to global movements The AACJ consortium in South Africa will develop broad alliances on climate justice by uniting movements that represent impacted communities with organizations and campaigns that advance climate justice and challenge extractive industries’ impact on the environment. The consortium will develop the capacity of local organizations to increase their autonomy and ability to self-organize as a transversal grass-roots movement, including by facilitating the development of common agendas and a unified voice between CSOs and climate justice activists, particularly women, youth, indigenous people and local communities (Pathway 1 and 2). Impact Outcome 2: Indigenous people and local communities have increased capacity to understand and use laws and policies to pursue climate justice. The AACJ consortium will work with local/ impacted communities to i) challenge unjust policies and practices that are currently in place, such as government support for fossil fuel energy and land grabs; and ii) support and promote policy reform for climate justice, including mainstreaming of environmental issues throughout government and public policy (Pathway 5). Activities include training indigenous people, women, youth and local communities to increase climate-related knowledge and participation in policy procedures. The programme will also support local communities and environmental defenders to articulate and defend their environmental and land rights, through legal empowerment and support (Pathway 3). Finally, the programme will document best practices on climate-related traditional knowledge and customary practices, for example through participatory action research and provide spaces for sharing, co-creation and promotion/ advocacy (Pathway 4).
Target Groups
We will work with women, youth and local communities – as well as other traditionally sidelined groups, such as people with disabilities
Strengthening land rights of communities
General
Stärkung der Landrechte von Gemeinden
Objectives
Stärkung der Landrechte von Gemeinden
Securing land rights and sustainable development for indigenous people in the North East of Brazil
General
Landrechtesicherung und Förderung einer selbstbestimmten nachhaltigen Entwicklung indigener Völker im Nordosten Brasiliens
Objectives
Landrechtesicherung und Förderung einer selbstbestimmten nachhaltigen Entwicklung indigener Völker im Nordosten Brasiliens
Food security and land rights in Kabare and Walungun districts in South Kivu - Continuation
General
Ernährungssicherheit und Landrechte in den Landkreisen Kabare und Walungun in Süd -Kivu, Fortführung
Objectives
Steigerung und Diversifizierung der ökologisch nachhaltiger landwirtschaftlichen Produktion, Vermarktung, Verbesserung der Ernährung (quantitative und qualitativ) und ökologisch nachhaltige Wiederinstandsetzung degradierter (erodierter) Ackerflächen.
Enhancing Young Peoples’ Access to Adequate Housing (EYPAH)
General
To enhance the quality of life for women, men and young people through increased access to sustainable adequate housing by 2023. Expected results; Increased capacity of MUMYO to deliver services to women and youth in greater Mukono area, Increased engagement between authorities and communities on issues of water sanitation hygiene and livelihoods, Demonstration of environmentally sustainable housing practices, Enhanced information sharing on WASH and housing practices for women young people and men, Enhanced access to housing finance and businesses in greater Mukono area , Women young people and men in greater Mukono have sustainable businesses, Increased participation and leadership of women and young people in district development plans, Enhanced access to women and young people's land rights
Objectives
The organisation has recruited project manager and project accountant. Leaders trained on Cooperative Housing model. The Project Manager participated in a workshop on access to adequate housing. Developed a 5-year strategic plan and key operational manuals (HR, Finance and procurement).
Forest Governance, Markets and Climate (FGMC), Policy Evaluation and Learning Team (PELT)
General
DFID’s Forest Governance, Markets and Climate (FGMC) programme is a 10-year (2011-2021), £250 million programme aimed at tackling forest governance failures in developing timber-producing countries and the consequent market failures that result in illegal exploitation of forest land and resources and the associated trade in timber and other forest risk commodities. As FGMC approaches the end of its current phase, there is a need to take stock, at programme level, of progress and the prognosis for further achievements. To meet this need, FGMC has commissioned a ‘Policy Evaluation and Learning Team’ (PELT) to carry out research, reviews and analysis, jointly with PMST and DFID, to address the overarching question of: ‘how, why, and under what conditions do forest-related governance and markets change, to what effect and to whose benefit?'