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|Organization name=African Coalition on Green Growth
|Organization link=AfricanCoalitionGreenGrowth23ZW
|Organization type=Civil Society Organisation (CSO), BIPOC Led, Indigenous Led, People with Disability Led, Women Led, Youth Led, Youth Led
|Located in=AfricaWide
|Current focus=Agroecology, Awareness raising, Disability rights, Disaster response and preparation, Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Extractivism, Food sovereignty, Gender based violence, Gender equality, Health, Human rights, Indigenous rights, Inclusion, Intergenerational Justice, Land Use, Livelihood Improvement, Movement building, Natural Resource Management, Social Justice, Women’s rights, Youth empowerment, Youth Leadership
|Description="The African Coalition on Green Growth established in 2016, is the officially registered voluntary co-ordinating body of organizations concerned with environmental resilience and climate change within the context of pursuing inclusive and sustianbel socio-political and economic development of the people of Africa.
We envision an NGO sector that will increasingly converge and develop a unified voice in the quest to influence policies, laws, regulations, and funding practices that have a bearing on the CSO operating environment in the country. We aspire to better connect, convene, generate and co-create ideas and knowledge largely based on own knowledge and experiences in relevant fields,and coordinate diverse groups of NGOs operating in Africa through the creation of spaces and platforms for experience sharing, mutual learning, all-stakeholder engagement, linking networks, and alliances as well as strengthening civic voices.
ACGG Vision’s is:
Achieving inclusive green development in Africa.
The coalition’s mission is to:
Promote inclusive and sustained green economic and industrial development in Africa.
Focus Areas:
Human mobility in the context of climate-induced loss and damage
Livelihoods & entrepreneurship for resilience building
Youth & women empowerment and youth & women led action
Agriculture, Forestry and land use management
Natural Resources Governance
Non-economic and cultural loss and damage
Evidence based research
Eco-tourism
Industrialisation and the Environment
Disaster education and response
Building Climate Change Resilience
Ecosystem based climate change adaptation
Gender justice,environmental justice and climate justice
Early warning systems and climate prediction
Innovation and industrialization
Climate Finance
Response measures and just transitions
Adaptation and renewable energy
Environment and Biodiversity resilience
Environmental Contamination and the Ecological Health
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