PACJA (Pan African Climate Justice Alliance) is a consortium of more than 1000 organizations from 48 African countries, and brings together a diverse membership drawn from Faith-based Organizations, Community-based organizations, Non-Governmental organizations, Trusts, Foundations, Indigenous Communities, Farmers, women movements youth groups and Pastoralist Groups with a shared vision to advance a people-centered, rights-based, equitable, just and inclusive approach to climate action.
The Alliance works with, and for, the people at the frontline of the climate crisis, and believes that environmental and climate justice will be achieved only if governments recognize the right to justice and respond with policies, resources, and actions to meet the needs and aspirations of their citizens and that vulnerable groups such as women, indigenous peoples, youth, people living with disabilities (PWDs), must be at the center-stage in all aspects of decision-making processes especially in climate financing and in Climate Information and Services (CIS).
PACJA's Programme mirrors three thematic areas, namely Resilient People Societies and Economies (ReSPE), Just Transition and Energy Access (JTEA), and Climate Finance (CF), which inform its interventions, and particularly the implementation of the Nationally Determined Contributions of the Paris Agreement and overall acceleration of climate action.
The membership category recognizes 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, right-based, just and inclusive approach to address climate and environmental challenges facing humanity and the planet.