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The Climate Change Advocacy Toolkits
Now available for download are the toolkits based on the practical advocacy experience of civil society organisations associated with the Southern Voices programme.

Southern Voices on Adaptation

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The Joint Principles for Adaptation
The Joint Principles for Adaptation (JPA) is a tool created by and for civil society organisations throughout the Global South that can be used to help guide CSOs to advocate for adaptation policies, enter into dialogue with government, or improve capacity-building efforts.

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Southern Voices' new report, "Promoting Pro-Poor Adaptation to Climate Change", summarises the experiences and the key tools used by civil society organisations in their previous two-years of climate…
As the most recent phase of the Southern Voices project came to an end in 2017, it was time to review successes, challenges and lessons learned. The next big question was how Southern Voices would…
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Credit: NAP CentralHow can governments and civil society ensure that the most vulnerable and marginalised groups are heard and involved when National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) are being prepared? This…
Southern Voices for Adaptation have provided their input on progress in transparency and participation at a UNFCCC expert meeting in São Tomé on national adaptation plans. From 7-9 February,…
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This week, Southern Voices for Adaptation (SVA) will share its perspective on progress in participation and transparency at the UNFCCC expert meeting on National Adaptation Plans (NAPs). The meeting,…
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This year’s COP workshop involved both lessons learned and important discussions on the future course for Southern Voices on Adaptation. Partner organisations from Malawi, Kenya, Vietnam, Cambodia,…
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COP23, hosted by Fiji at the UNFCCC Secretariat in Bonn, saw the involvement of Southern Voices partners from across the Global South. With arrivals from Nepal; Malawi; Vietnam; Nicaragua; Sri Lanka…
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Southern Voices on Adaptation are proud to share in the run-up to COP23 our new leaflet Milestones towards pro-poor Adaptation – Civil Society Achievements in promoting effective and equitable…
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The Adaptation Communications is a central requirement to keep track of the progress by Governments in implementing the Paris Agreement, since there is close interlinkage between the temperature…
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Civil Society climate advocates from nine countries in the Southern Voices programme attended the COP22 in Marrakech, Morocco to share lessons and engage with colleagues and policy-makers to promote…
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Civil Society climate advocates from nine countries in the Southern Voices programme will attend the COP22 in Marrakech, Morocco to promote effective and equitable adaptation approaches. From Nepal,…
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“Advancing National Adaptation Plans post-Paris” was the headline for the NAP Expo organised in Bonn by the UNFCCC. The NAP Expo is an important learning event for governments and other stakeholders…
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How can the Joint Principles for Adaptation best be used by partner-networks to improve adaptation policies? How can we strengthen ties and learning among partner networks? And how can SV-Adapt best…
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SV-Adapt welcome two new regional facilitators to our team: In Africa, Mr. Obed Koringo and in Latin America Mr. Alejandro Alemán. The new facilitators will carry on the work of strengthening the…
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A new phase begins for Southern Voices with the start of 2016. During the first two years from 2014-15 the main focus was on developing and testing the Joint Principles for Adaptation (JPA) – as a…

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In 2015, Makueni County became the first sub-national government in Africa to instate financial commitments on climate change into law. Located in south-east Kenya, Makueni County has been hit with…
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Faced with a lack of funds and technical capacity, Malawi’s National Adaptation Plan (NAP) needed support. One of the key challenges was information gathering. “At the beginning of the process, there…
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In Ghana, the Joint Principles for Adaptation (JPA) have been used both at local level and at government level to push for pro-poor adaptation: The Accra-based NGO, ABANTU for Development, has…
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On May 22nd The Civil Society Network on Climate Change (CISONECC) in Malawi met with the National Technical Committee on Climate Change (NTCCC). CISONECC presented the Joint Principles for…
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Photo: Innocent Mbvundula/CARE Torrential rains flooded Malawi in January causing devastating damage to both infrastructure and crops. Adaptation to climate change is top of the agenda for Malawi's…
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The National Council of Churches of Kenya (NCCK) has called on President Uhuru Kenyatta to urgently assent to the Climate Change Bill 2014. The Northern parts of Kenya have suffered from a prolonged…
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Through the support of Climate Mali Network and as part of Mali's new environmental pact, AMADE Pelcode are advocating for use of a fuel efficient stove to minimise the degradation of Mali's…
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In Nigeria, efforts to introduce climate change policy have taken a back seat in the Government's priority list. The Climate Change Network – Nigeria have taken the approach of advocacy vists to…
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Maiga Mouhamadou Farka runs us through how his network was able to put climate change at the forefront of the public's consciousness in Mali. Download the presentation here. video with English…
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In 2006, a young man rallied the youth of Abidjan in the Ivory Coast, to protest against a Dutch shipping company found to be dumping toxic waste in his hometown. That same man, Ange David Baimey now…
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16/06/2006 – Food production in Western Africa will be hit by more frequent and more extreme heat waves and droughts if the climate continues to alter at its current pace, according to a new report…
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27/09/2013 – In Stockholm today, governments of the world have signed off on the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which says climate change is happening now,…
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28/6/2013: Food production in Western Africa will be hit by more frequent and more extreme heat waves and droughts if the climate continues to alter at its current pace, according to a new report…
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22/7/2013: From 3 to 6 September, the CARE Adaptation Learning Programme (ALP) and Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security Programme (CCAFS) will host a CBA workshop in Cotonou, Benin.Go to:…
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18/05/2012: FEMNET has launched a new african web page on Women, Gender and Climate Justice. The webpage is dedicated to rural women for their role in farming which leads to food production and food…

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All along the Mekong Delta, one of the most agriculturally productive regions in the world, a combination of rising sea levels, water salinisation, and drought has sparked a migration…
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Highland communities are often exposed to devasting landslides Nepal represents a challenge to adaptation planning. From the tropical south to the mountainous north, the country requires an…
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Cambodia is extremely vulnerable to climate change. Unforgiving droughts and intense monsoons have hit its agricultural communities hard. District government employees are also aware that…
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New report on Vietnam shows impressive results when NGOs effectively mobilise local people to take action on climate change and scale up their efforts to cover hundreds of villages. The…
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Integrating gender equality and women’s empowerment in climate projects takes time, effort and targeted action. Climate Change Working Group (CCWG) in Vietnam and their members have…
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Usha Nair, a former Southern Voices member working through INFORSE, is now involved in the Women's Global Call for Climate Justice as part of her job in All India Women's Conference (AIWC).…
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South Asia shows the way forward for regional cooperation on adaptation planning. Climate Action Network South Asia called on the heads of government to collaborate and coordinate their…
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Climate Action Network South Asia (CANSA), with partner networks of Southern Voices on Adaptation organised the Regional Workshop for Southern Voices on Adaptation, on 4th October 2014 at…
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On the 10th of February 2014, Climate Action Network South Asia in collaboration with the Sri Lanka Press Institute launched the inaugural training series, ‘Training on Climate Change and…
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Advocacy efforts are often a long-term outcome and immediate impacts are often difficult to measure. Though as participants attending the Monitoring climate change advocacy' workshop…

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In October 2017, the international community welcomed President Ortega’s announcement that Nicaragua would join the Paris Agreement. However, many Nicaraguan citizens could not share their…
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For Nicaraguan Alliance on Climate Change (ANACC) – a Southern Voices partner network – the most remarkable results from using the Joint Principles for Adaptation (JPA) has been that it has…
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Water as a human right, disaster risk reduction, food sovereignty, biodiversity, climate change – all these and many other issues were debated when over 100 Nicaraguan CSO representatives…
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The inclusion of local people – especially indigenous groups – in adaptation planning is paramount according to Guatemalan CSOs. "The vision, traditional practices and ways of governance…
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The Salvadoran Roundtable on Climate Change joins the Southern Voices family as the first voluntary network. The Southern Voices invites Southern civil society actors to help test and…
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Last October, the members of the SUSWATCH, met in Managua for their annual meeting and one of the important points of the meeting was related to work of the Southern Voices on Adaptation…
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Ten organizations members of the Nicaraguan Alliance on Climate Change (ANACC) met in order to know the progress made and the steps to follow related to the development of Joint Principles…
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The Forum currently consists of four regional networks and several national platforms which together represent more than 200 civil society organizations in America. In the last four years,…
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"In case of doubt, the nature of support" in this case refers to the first of the seven principles of the framework law for regulating the reduction of vulnerability required before the…
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25/10/2013: The coordinated among its members and the continued support from CAN achieve the goal proposed by CANLA: successfully replicate new ads conclusive report of the…

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This video traces the development of the JPA at the CBA8 in Kathmandu, April 2014.

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Phone: (+265) 888 795 957/ 998 479 818

Publications

"Review of the National Climate Change Policy Issues Paper" (2012) CISONECC, Blantyre.

"Review of Malawi's Status on Implementation of Sustainable Development And Recommendations for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio+20" (2012) CISONECC, Blantyre.

"Institutional Scoping for Stakeholders Working in Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction in Malawi" (2009) CISONECC, Blantyre.

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