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Scaling up and Empowering Movements for Climate Change Advocacy

SEMCCA
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ACTIVITY INFORMATION
What we are doing

Africa is known to be one of the most rapidly urbanising continents globally. It is anticipated that more than a quarter of the world’s fastest growing cities are in Africa, and regardless of policies, their urban populations will have tripled by 2050. This exponential growth, coupled with weak governance structures, limited resources, high levels of poverty and limited service delivery, put immense pressure on local and regional ecosystems, and increase the vulnerability of urban populations to climate change impacts. As such, resilient climate solutions increasingly need to use the experience and knowledge of people who will be most affected by climate change as a basis for planning responses. In cities, this requires not only drawing on insights from local authorities and national governments but also from urban residents (particularly the poor) and civil and social movement groups. Local government authorities have a central role in providing the enabling environment -both political and physical - within which climate change movement can make an impact. In towns and cities, the relationship between communities, these movements and local authorities is particularly critical for achieving transformational long-lasting climate change reform. This requires effective engagement both with decision makers as well as political agreements with elected representatives. The SEMCCA programme is designed to support the development of enabling conditions for revitalised civic and social participation, through designing and implementing tailored approaches, within a multi-level governance and social justice framework, in order to deliver ambitious, well-supported, scalable and replicable climate solutions.

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How we are tracking

- Improve effective processes for engagement and collaboration between local government and civil society; - Support cross-movement mobilisation; - Support the upscaling and replicability of project lessons, recommendations and activities through advocacy and communications; and - Improved understanding of the wider system leverages for climate change advocacy movements.

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What we are achieving

Through the SEMCCA programme, ICLEI aims to foster a strong and effective collaboration between people-powered community and civil society groups and their local governments, thereby enabling a robust and strategic collective movement for action. ICLEI supports the development of enabling conditions for revitalised civic and social participation, through designing and implementing tailored approaches, within a multi-level governance and social justice framework, in order to deliver ambitious, well-supported, scalable and replicable climate solutions. Through the SEMCCA project, ICLEI supports the review of important documents such the countries’ National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) and Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), through a civil society and local government perspective. As such, civic society entry points can be revealed and thereby strengthened. These will help guide civic society activities/movements which ultimately improve urban policy alignment and climate policy development. In particular, the SEMCCA project will focus on three key urban themes: water, food and mobility, actively bringing these three urban ‘communities’ together to achieve climate action at scale within African city regions.

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