Alliance of Climate Frontline Communities

Vision

Mission

Alliance of Climate Frontline Communities (ACFC) empowers frontline communities by amplifying our voices and experiences in the global climate dialogue, advocating for policy reforms, securing compensation and fostering intersectional solidarity.

Engagements

Research and Documentation: Conduct research initiatives that document the experiences, narratives and contributions of frontline communities to build a repository of their knowledge. Intersectional Solidarity Initiatives: Promote and nurture solidarity across different communities and movements to ensure an inclusive and equitable climate justice. Knowledge Sharing: Facilitate the exchange of knowledge and innovative practices among frontline communities to strengthen their resilience and adaptive capacities. Public Awareness Campaigns: Facilitate campaigns of frontline communities on the narratives of climate frontline communities, denial of intergenerational equity, demands for compensations at national and international levels. Advocacy and Policy Reform: Actively engage in national and international forums, UN mechanisms to advocate for policies that recognize the frontline communities as Climate Faculties and compensate the contributions, allocate proportionate share in the climate fiscals. Capacity Building: Provide training and resources to frontline communities to enhance their ability to lead climate actions and participate effectively in policy discussions. Partnerships and Collaborations: Build strong partnerships with NGOs, governments and other stakeholders to support and amplify the voices of frontline communities.

Alliance of Climate Frontline Communities Partners

Donors

Donor

Dalit Solidarity Forum in the USA, Inc. (DSF)

(DSF) was founded in 1999 to provide visibility to and to engage in activism to condemn discrimination and violence faced by Dalits (formerly known as “untouchables”). Due to the caste system, an ancient system of human classification still practiced in India, and today, globally as well, Dalits are rejected and socially excluded as “outcasts” by the rest of the Indian population. They are everyday victims of structurally embedded discrimination in all social sectors; forced to live in extreme poverty; subject to constant dehumanization, and unspeakable violence. DSF strongly believes that caste-based discrimination anywhere is a human rights violation and strives to continue to raise awareness and to be proactively involved along with Dalit communities to claim human dignity as our right

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RIGHTS

RIGHTS is a Not for Profit Organization started by a few socially committed individuals during the year 2008. RIGHTS Based in Trivandrum, Kerala RIGHTS has been actively involved in conducting studies and interventions in the field of education, State Budgets, right of the children, Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Justice of the marginalised communities.

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HOPE

HOPE is a Non Government Organisation (NGO) implementing our own programmes and also providing solidarity support to other Campaigns and Networks in the fields of Child Rights, Women Empowerment, Environment Protection and Governance.

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The key bearer initiative

The Key Bearer initiative has been working with the pastrolate community of Somali descent at Kenya on Gender and climate justice issues. Address: P.O Box 1016,ode 00520, Nairobi,Mihango Name of the Focal Point: Miftah Noor

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OSILIGI YOUTH GROUP

OSILIGI (meaning ‘Hope’ in Maasai Language) has been working with adolescents and Young girls among Maasai community on the issue of gender and climate change

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ARDHA JABESA foundation

ARDHA JABESA foundation is a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) that was registered in Kenya in the year 2021.The organization area of operations includes the ASAL Counties of Isiolo, Samburu, Marsabit, Wajir and Tana River of Kenya. The organization programmes focuses on the cross counties -border approach that is intended to build synergy and enhance communities’ engagement and resilience to recurrent disaster threats and risks resulting from fragile climatic condition

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Equitives Foundation

Equitives Foundation, initiated by a group of development practitioners who are working with historically disadvantaged and underprivileged communities across South Asia. Equitives determined to find ways and means to find an empowering developmental trajectory based on principles of social equity and natural justice to address the structural and systemic exclusions and ensure inclusiveness in practice.

Alliance of Climate Frontline Communities (ACFC)

Alliance of Climate Frontline Communities (ACFC) working towards climate justice that recognize and compensate our knowledge, resilience and struggles, lead global climate change policy dialogues and fiscal negotiations. Increased greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from industrialized nations, has severe global consequences as the Earth heats. The global temperatures have risen by 1.2°C above pre-industrial levels and sea levels have risen 20 centimeters since the late 19th century, rising about 3.3 millimeters per year, the phenomenon world recognize as Climate Change. Structural and systemic forms of discrimination, oppressions and exclusions have created historically oppressed communities and pushed them into vulnerable geographic locations. The same very historical reasons are by default discriminated the frontline communities from the climate discourses. Historically oppressed communities experience the “first and worst” impacts of climate change. The climate change narratives define us as “victims” or “communities disproportionately impacted”, hence we are denied intergenerational equity. Climate debates failed to recognize our relentless struggle against oppressions that produced in-depth knowledge and devised numerous adaptation practices across the situations. We, Frontline Communities from historically oppressed backgrounds identify ourselves as knowledge producing communities and redefine ourselves as Climate Faculties.

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