Bangladesh is one of the most climate-vulnerable countries in the world, ranked as the seventh most affected by climate change according to the Global Climate Risk Index.
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Global Open Call Pilot
CJRF is excited to share the recipients of our recent participatory grantmaking pilot. For the first time ever, CJRF made small grants for new partners. Each of the following groups received $15,000 USD to use for capacity building.
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.
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.
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