Harare, the capital and largest city of Zimbabwe, is experiencing rapid urban sprawl and population growth, with 1.6 million people spread across the 45 municipal ward boundaries of the city. As the population surges, so to do the demands on the water infrastructure of the city.
In recent years, there has been a growing call for funders to recognise the shortfalls of philanthropy, and address the ways in which philanthropic institutions perpetuate harmful economic, colonial, political and cultural systems of domination.
In a year-long collaborative effort, the Climate Justice Resilience Fund brought together diverse communities of climate and development practitioners whose work spanned research, policy, and practice, to define the complex relationship between loss and damage (L&D) and climate adaptation.
Since 2016, CJRF has supported communities and groups on the frontlines of the climate crisis to implement, share, advocate for, and scale their own climate justice solutions. During this time, we’ve learned that meaningful climate action requires significant shifts in economic systems, women’s empowerment, inter-generational equity, and long-standing racial and colonial injustices (among others).
The Black Indigenous Liberation Movement (BILM) was formed in response to a dual crisis of racial and climate injustice that disproportionately affects Black and Indigenous communities across the Americas. Extractive industries—both legal and illegal—are rapidly depleting natural resources, polluting water sources, and displacing entire communities.
Latin America’s history is a history of migration—people seeking opportunities and moving between territories and from rural areas to cities. In Mexico City, this movement often leads to fragmentation, where individuals fend for themselves, and neighbors remain strangers, despite living side by side.
