This year’s AMCEN has been themed: Taking action for Environmental Sustainability and Prosperity in Africa, and will focus on “the need for African countries to take practical action, including implementation of policies, relevant regional and global frameworks, in order for the continent to attain environmental sustainability and prosperity and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Africa’s Agenda 2063”.
PACJA takes part in Pre-COP25 Agriculture and Gender Negotiators and Experts Strategy Meeting
PACJA holds training for scribes
On September 21, 2019, the organization leaders of the Northern Burkina Faso cellar society and 40 local communities were trained in reforestation techniques of the plant cover.
Pacja on 27 September, 2019 Held a Walk to mark the end of the Global Climate Strike .
Regional dialogue for the forest dependent Indigenous peoples, other forest dwellers and southern CSOs in the Asia Pacific region kicked off on Thursday, 18th September, 2019, after the completion of the gender and REDD+ workshop the previous day. The FCPF funded workshop took place simultaneously with a similar one in Panama for the Carribean region.
The Pan African Climate Justice Alliance has joined the youth in the Global Climate Strike that will last eight days.
The PACJA team has lined up several activities to take place in its different national platforms during the period of the global strike.
The Pan African Justice Alliance Executive Director Mithika Mwenda is this year’s winner of the International Earth Care Award.
PACJA Stands in Solidarity with Rural Communities in the Philippines.
Regional dialogue for the forest dependent Indigenous peoples, others forest dwellers and southern CSOs in the Asia Pacific region has kicked off today after the completion of the gender and REDD+ workshop .
The Swedish Government has praised a Pan African organisation for its transparency and pledged to continue working with it to address the climate crisis in Africa.
PACJA’s Felix M'mboyi and his team with Zambia Climate Change Network staff engaging the Climate Change department in the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources. This is the first assignment in the development of the Implementation index.
Chatting a way forward towards a climate resilient Water, Sanitation and Health in East Africa.
The PACJA Gabon platform has just strengthened its governance structures, with its extraordinary general assembly. During the August 10, 2019 meeting at its headquarters in Angondje, Sherko City, members representing more than 60 Gabonese civil
Calls by a Kenyan Senate Committee on Agriculture to have the controversial Galana-Kulalu irrigation scheme audited are timely.
In Central African Republic, the Project is being implemented by PACJA through Central African Organization for the Conservation of Nature (OCDN). OCDN is focusing on increasing outreach of the CSO members of the GDRNE platform and local communities
Similar successes are being recorded in Mozambique, where the project is implemented by PACJA with Community Land Initiative (CLI). The capacity building has been on access to rights (land); governance systems at community levels; and payment for
PACJA’s Congo platform, through CIREK, is empowering civil society organizations to engage in community activities focusing on REDD+ and the fight against climate change. The REDD+ Strategy is being implemented in 48 localities of Sangha
Tanzanians have presented its first Voluntary National Review (VNR) report at this year’s (2019) High-Level Political Forum (HLPF). FORUMCC, which is Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) platform in Tanzania, played a key role in the VNR
The Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) Executive Director Mithika Mwenda has been honored by the Pan African Climate for his efforts in pushing for Climate Justice in Africa, for outstanding advocacy in the climate change discourse
Assertive policy and regulatory frameworks are essential in creating favorable conditions that would allow renewable energy technologies to grow and replace carbon-emitting fuels. Kenya signed a Paris Climate change treaty on greenhouse gas
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It is my pleasure to welcome you to the official PACJA website. At PACJA we believe in an all inclusive approach to tackling climate change and meeting the SDGs as outlined by the United Nations. Our key focus areas inlude the the following:
In line with our commitment to climate action and attainment of SDGs, we have partnered with several local and international organizations and governments to influence strategy and actions in attaining our goals. As a result, we have attained great milestones and won many prestigious awards as a recognition of our efforts. I welcome you all to be members of the PACJA fraternity. Lets work together to make this earth a better place for all. KARIBU.
Executive Director, Mithika Mwenda
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