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PACJA, Ban Ki-moon Centre sign pact to support climate change adaptation in Africa

by Segun Ogunlade December 5, 2022
written by Segun Ogunlade December 5, 2022
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The Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) and the Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens (BKMC) have signed a collaborative pact to support climate change adaptation efforts by women, youth and smallholder farmers around Africa.

BKMC is a quasi-international organisation under Austrian law, which uses its expertise and network to work for peace, empowerment of youth and women, climate action, justice, and human rights worldwide.

Founded by the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon and Heinz Fischer, the 11th President of the Republic of Austria, the Centre is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.

The PACJA is a consortium of more than 1,000 organisations from 51 African countries that brings together a diverse membership with a shared vision to advance a people-centred, right-based, just and inclusive approach to addressing climate and environmental challenges.

The agreement, which was signed simultaneously in Nairobi (Kenya) and Vienna (Austria), entailed the two parties committing to focus on bettering the lives of vulnerable groups who are the most affected by the climate crisis through designing sustainable development programmes in adaptation and agriculture.

According to the executive director of PACJA, Mithika Mwenda, the objective of the MoU is to formalise an inclusive framework of cooperation and facilitate collaboration between the Parties with the intention being to promote projects that foster cooperation and create and share knowledge in sustainable development and climate change.

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Mwenda said that the two parties would further explore the option to participate and collaborate in the development of joint initiatives and events and have also agreed to endeavour to work together towards evidence gathering and create joint publications through research, and advance advocacy work and identify policy gaps in the areas of climate change adaptation.

At the initial meeting, the parties agreed to exchange information and identify additional areas of collaboration within the framework of this MoU. This may include but is not limited to PACJA’s Nairobi Summer Schools.

Story was adapted from environnewsnigeria.

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