CJRF Theory of Change

With CJRF’s grants, women, youth and Indigenous Peoples on the front lines of climate change have the support they need to better access information, undertake advocacy, identify and implement local solutions, build leadership skills, and strengthen their organizations and networks.

As shown in the blue Empowerment Cycle, these inputs enable and empower communities to take first-order actions such as strengthen their organizations, clarify their climate needs and narratives, and identify their own solutions.

This grounded, local-level work is essential to the brown Scale Cycle, which shows how these local actions can be scaled: through grant partners’ implementation and advocacy, and ultimately adoption of practice or lessons by other actors at different scales.

These two cycles are interconnected and operate in an ongoing positive feedback loop. CJRF grant partners operate at different parts of these two interconnected circles: some partners work deeply in one or two elements of these cycles, while others operate across various elements of these cycles. The diversity of grants CJRF makes results in a portfolio that, as a whole, supports this Theory of Change.