The project aims to amplify the voices of women, youth and local and indigenous communities calling for climate justice.
African activists are taking up the fight for climate justice. They will be helped in their fight by the “African Activists for Climate Justice” (ACCJ) project, whose Senegalese component was officially launched on 14 February 2022 in Dakar.
Its initiators explain that the 56-month project (May 2021-31 December 2025) aims to improve the democratisation of the climate debate and the development of climate justice in Africa.
“The AACJ project aims to amplify the voices of women, youth and local and indigenous communities demanding climate justice and to build the capacity of groups most affected by climate change in order to advance equity, dignity and justice for the most vulnerable and repressed communities in Africa,” according to Sokhna Dié Kâ, Program Manager of the NGO Natural Justice, which is part of the consortium implementing the project in Senegal.
The project intervention will be holistic and will target youth and women in communities impacted by and/or vulnerable to climate change and will globally target coastal areas with an impact on policies and regulations at national, regional and international level.
It is funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the tune of over 43 million euros. The AACJ project is also being implemented in seven other African countries: Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Mozambique and South Africa.
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