Do you need to develop an internal climate policy and want to know what other organisations have done? Or do you want to find out more about disaster risk reduction or locally led adaptation? Maybe you have a great adaptation project you’d like to share with other ACT members.
Visit ACT’s new Platform for Climate Change and Programmes, meant to strengthen ACT’s Climate Justice members and networks. Available on the Fabo Learning site, the platform has several functions:
- a one-stop learning site for climate change issues;
- a sharing space for climate policy and members’ work on adaptation, resilience, loss and damage; and,
- a digital space in which to network with and learn from other ACT members’ work on climate justice.
“This is an opportunity for members to share their best experiences adapting to climate change,” says Tewaney Seifesellasie, co-chair of the ACT Alliance Climate Justice Programmes team. The team focusses on the climate adaptation work of ACT members at the grassroots level and is also responsible for running ACT’s Resilience Award. They started designing the platform in March 2022.
Four sections
The platform, accessible to ACT members at https://fabo.org/act_secretariat/actclimate , is divided into four main sections.
The first, Climate Programming, includes training opportunities and news on ACT Climate Justice opportunities such as the Resilience Award. Users are invited to submit their own climate programme interventions addressing adaptation, resilience, loss and damage and/or low carbon transition. A template is provided.
The second section, Internal Climate Policies, has examples of ACT member climate policies from DanChurchAid, Norwegian Church Aid and Christian Aid, a helpful slide deck on implementing such a policy, and a climate game to help members of organisations reflect on their climate change goals.
Both of these sections feature a useful resources library with ACT and member publications on climate change and climate justice.
The third section, Dialogue Forums, has two components. The Practice Forum invites ACT members to “collaborate, share examples of good practices, learn from others and exchange ideas or questions.” The Networking Forum features photographs and short biographies of the members of the Programmes team and invites users to add their own profile.
“We want to increase networking among ACT members,” says Ruusa Gawazaa, co-chair of the ACT Alliance Climate Justice Programmes team. “We can learn a lot from each other.”
The final section gives an overview of ACT Alliance, and how users can participate. Members of the ACT Alliance are welcome to join the community of practice, with possibilities for regular cooperation and exchange of ideas and experiences.
ACT members are invited to share news of the Platform in their Forums and with their own members. “We can leverage our strengths by sharing them, and also strengthen the climate justice movement within the alliance,” says Tewaney.
To access the site:
https://fabo.org/act_secretariat/actclimate
Step 1: Log in: https://fabo.org/my/
Step 2: Access Climate ACT alliance platform for climate change and programs
Step 3: Click, climate programming, dialogue Forum (on Tool Bar) etc or other forums
To share experiences:
Step 1: Log in: https://fabo.org/my/
Step 2: Access Climate ACT alliance platform for climate change and programs
Step 3: Click Dialogue Forum (on the Tool Bar)
Step 4: Click on “DO YOU WANT TO SHARE EXPERIENCES FROM YOUR ORGANISATION? DO YOU HAVE A QUESTION? OR AN OPINION? CLICK HERE TO ENGAGE IN THE DISCUSSIONS IN A DIALOGUE FORUM”
