We Effect Environmental and Climate Justice Programme Palestine 2020-2023
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Result
The programme targets 25 of the most marginalized communities in the West Bank and Gaza. Component 1: Capacity Development Outcome 1: Strengthened capabilities of civil society organizations to effectively promote environment and climate justice in Palestine. During 2022, work focused on strengthening the capacity of PAIC partners as well as the selected grassroot organizations, mainly women and youth organizations (35 % were women-led grassroot organisations), to increase their capacity to advocate for climate justice and environmental rights. They also received capacity building in natural resources sustainable management and agro / green practices. Component 2: Advocacy and social accountability Outcome 2: Rights-holders hold duty-bearers accountable for environmental and climate outcomes in Palestine. As part of this outcome, the advocacy work is coordinated among PAIC members, PENGON and in cooperation with grassroots organisations and other stakeholders based on the developed joint environmental advocacy and communication strategy. Also, to increase the awareness among rights holders, the social media was used as a tool for engagement and community mobilization. Selected progress: - We Effect, along with partners, established the ECJP advocacy strategy to promote citizens' voice, participation, and influence on public decision-making related to environmental justice. The strategy included the Advocacy Task Force (ATF). - PENGON has a leading role in advocacy and thus will be given a stronger role in the programme. As an ex. PENGON and PAIC have developed a Shadow Tracking System (evidence-based system). This system is developed for systematically documenting both Israeli and Palestinian environmental violations and utilizing such databases to publish reports to increase the impact of efforts. - Programme implementing partners worked in late 2022 on a ToR for establishing gender-inclusive Youth Pressure Groups (YPG) in the targeted locations and conducted several orientations and introductory sessions for the YPGs. Component 3: Community resilience through innovative and smart approaches Outcome 3: Resilient marginalized communities and groups apply innovative solutions and smart approaches to environmental / agricultural / renewable energy and climate challenges. This outcome focuses on increasing the resilience of marginalized communities to climate change; through the development and implementation of collective climate resiliency plans and the implementation of innovative solutions and climate smart approaches. To achieve this, in 2022, the program is working with grassroots and private sector and rights holders on sustainable environmental initiatives to build resilience at the community level. Selected progress: -To strengthen the capacity of grassroots organizations for community climate resilience, the programme has successfully developed 5 community resilience plans as strategic tools and reference documents for designing environmental and climate justice interventions. -ECJP supported the implementation of 9 eco-friendly pilots - reaching 12,293 people (6063 female and 6230 male) - implemented by PAIC organizations to enhance the capabilities of targeted communities in combating climate threats and degradation. -In line with innovative and smart solutions to environmental challenges, a phone application is being developed as early warning systems with instructions to provide communities with information on climate, weather and diseases (national-level activity but data is needed) is in process. -The program will facilitate access to required financial resources such as; access to financial institutions/private sector, and access to service providers. 7 companies were selected operating in the field of; reducing waste by producing natural biogas, waste recycling and smart agriculture system through the introduction of technology to control the amount of irrigation and fertilization, reuse of carton waste and manufacture of egg packaging, bio-mulching through grinding the palm fronds/leaves into small pieces to be mixed with the soil, installation of automatic membrane press machine to minimize water waste, recycling plastic materials and manufacturing rubbish bags, and production of animal feed using vegetable waste.
The overarching goal of the programme is to "contribute to improving environmental and climate justice in Palestine". The specific programme objective is "By 2024, civil society organisations and rights holders have the capacity to address and challenge structural barriers to environment and climate justice in Palestine". To achieve the programme goal, the programme will use a bottom up approach to environmental governance by strengthening the capabilities of various stakeholders and marginalized communities to influence policy making and strategic sector policies. The programme will use a human rights based approach, linking the rights of marginalized community members with the obligations and commitments of duty bearers when it comes to environmental governance and rights, access to information and natural resources. The role of civil society in strengthening environmental governance is important which is why the programme will also contribute to capacity building of CSO's to participate in the environmental decision making dialogue, improving rights-based environmental mainstreaming, developing risk-management response plans and community resilience plans as well as ensuring financing for innovative green solutions to environmental development and climate justice.
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