Module 6: Climate Justice Advocacy and Communication

This session grounds the advocacy elements, principles, and practical steps in pursuit for climate justice by laying foundational understanding on the procedural elements, concrete steps, filling the knowledge requirements for effective advocacy planning interspersed with practical sessions drawing from context of the students. The session inbuilds quality checks in the process of designing and executing advocacy efforts.

This session explores the concepts of effective and strategic communication and demonstrates how their application in the climate justice advocacy.

This session exposes students to the power of movement and alliance building and its role driving campaigns and how to build influential issue-based movements. The session draws lessons from successful case studies of movements from across the world and their role in advancing justice.

This session exposes the participants on the role of strategic litigation in advancing the imperatives of climate justice and in supporting campaigns realize their aspirations. It exposes the students to general knowledge on how to pursue strategic public litigation processes address the issues of litigation.

Campaigning actions portent risks to frontline actors. It is important that campaign actors and activists are in the lead in identifying risks and take measures to limit their levels of exposure to such risks. This session is devoted to enhancing capacity of students in risk assessments, developing, and implementing risk managements and mitigation plans

This session equips the learners with skills and tools to collect, analyze and report the impact of their advocacy work and its contribution to sustainable development. It also covers best practices (success stories, stories of change, community outreach, newsletters) in reaching wide audiences with lessons learnt and recommendations for building sustainable futures.