Climate Justice Community of Practice
Addressing climate change must be done through solutions that redress inequalities, transform unequal relations of power and improve the well-being and resilience of frontline communities.
Partos members (environmental and development organisations) share a deep, acute concern about climate change, the desire to be part of the transition, and the understanding that a broad movement and united front is paramount for scaling up and out climate justice programmes and exerting maximum political pressure, influence and power. In 2023 the Partos Innovation Hub launched the Climate Justice Community of Practice (CoP). Scroll below for an overview of activities in 2023.
Purpose
The purpose of the Community of Practice is to strengthen Partos members’ climate justice programs by learning if, how and when these programmes:
- Can incorporate elements/principles of climate justice
- Manage to reach considerable scale-up and scale-out.
Furthermore, we hope to reach essential side effects on informing lobby & advocacy at national, European and other regional and global levels. Last but not least, we hope the trajectory leads to the mobilisation and collaboration of members, for example, on joint program design and implementation.
Target group
The main focus of the CoP is on climate justice as part of programming. The main target group are development professionals working on the design and implementation of programmes. However, the CoP is open for all members of Partos and their partners, as well as other interested development professionals interested in Climate Justice Programs in the Global South
Networks connect, communities care!
We aim to learn in a Community of Practice in which members commit to come together in 4 physical sessions per year (Amsterdam or The Hague) and actively share knowledge, experiences, lessons learned and define shared ambition and actions. Active inputs need to come from members and, where necessary, from external experts.
In between the physical sessions, online sessions will be organised, to facilitate active engagement of Southern CSOs.
Climate Justice CoP activities 2024
- Q1, Q2 and Q3: Climate Finance and Nature-Based Solutions.
- Q3, Q4: Locally Led Adaptation and mainstreaming climate justice/ Intersectionality of climate justice
Learning questions that were identified for these (and other) topics can be found here. This planning is flexible and depends also on you as a CoP member. Do you want to co-organise a session related to these topics? Write a message to sonja@partos and we can discuss learning objectives, session outline, etc.
Additionally, we will finalise the joint narrative and explore organising a public event as part of the Partos trajectory for Strengthening the Support Base for International Development Cooperation. A solid common narrative from the development and the environment movements together will enhance mutual respect, common understanding, dialogue and collaboration between organisations and result in strengthened programs and joint advocacy. Throughout the learning trajectory we will explore if and what common narrative we have.
Registered CoP members receive regular updates on past and future activities. Otherwise, look in the Partos agenda to see if there are any climate justice sessions planned coming time.
We also have a must-read list, which is a joint working document. Feel free to insert your preferred readings!
Register!
For those who joined the Community of Practice last year and for those who want to join this year, please sign up by completing this form.