Issue Areas
CJRF grants focus on four inter-related issues through which climate change may profoundly affect the lives and prospects of hardest-hit communities:
Water Access
Accessing safe water is one of the most critical issues to secure climate justice, particularly for women and girls. CJRF seeks to ensure that communities continue to have local access to clean water as the climate changes.
Food Security and sovereignty
Many impacts of climate change affect the food supplies of smallholder farmers, hunters, fishers, and pastoralists. CJRF helps to ensure these communities have enough to eat by promoting climate-resilient agricultural practices, protecting communities' land and resource rights, and ensuring sustained access to wild foods.
Sustainable livelihoods
Meeting the challenges of the climate crisis will create new livelihood opportunities, and also will require adaptation of traditional jobs and ways of living. CJRF funds community-led efforts that develop and sustain resilient livelihoods, and which ensure the burden and benefits of change are equitably shared within communities.
Migration and relocation
Climate change is on track to displace millions of people from their homes globally. Governments are responsible for supporting displaced people and upholding their rights, but few are yet rising to this challenge. CJRF strengthens communities’ ability to demand effective planning from their governments, and to take control of their migration choices, including the option to relocate entire communities.
CLIMATE-INDUCED LOSS AND DAMAGE
‘Loss and damage’ refers to the negative impacts of climate change that communities experience when they cannot adapt—either because they do not have access to resources or because alternative ways of living are no longer viable. Through participatory grantmaking, CJRF is centering people’s lived experience of loss and damage and funding efforts to address these challenges.