Starting a new year presents the opportunity to look back and celebrate the milestones we’ve reached, as well as look forward to where we hope to go in the year to come.

In 2022, CJRF launched the Solution Series, a set of webinars where grant partners shared lessons, challenges, and impactful outcomes of their work with our community of grantees, funders, and climate practitioners.

In the spring of 2023. we commissioned ISET International to review our portfolio of grants from CJRF Phase 1 (2017-22) and make recommendations for improvement in our second phase of grantmaking.

In this Op-ed for Alliance Magazine, CJRF Director Heather McGray explains why the Fund believes it makes sense for people on the frontlines of the climate crisis to hold the decision-making power over climate action.

We are at an exciting point in our development where our partners are generating significant results. Now, we’re exploring lessons from their progress and how we can best share these lessons with the broader climate action community.

At a CJRF-hosted side event of the 14th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change (#CBA14), our partner organizations gathered virtually to discuss climate justice approaches to adaptation and identify lessons drawn from their work and experience to-date.

Leaders from the human rights and climate change communities are joining forces to support communities on the front lines of climate change. Six organizations, including CJRF, have pooled their knowledge resources and funds to provides grants to organizations aiding communities.

A community hub for East African women to lead on solutions which address climate has laid its foundation in the Ugandan town of Tororo. This hub will provide an inclusive space for women to build resilience to the impacts of climate change in their region and around the world.