NATURAL JUSTICE STRATEGY

The Natural Justice Strategy (2020-2022) outlines a Pan-African approach to securing social and environmental justice for Indigenous peoples and local communities. The organisation is shifting from siloed programmes to three integrated programmatic streams: affirming rights to lands and resources, defending rights against environmental impacts, and standing with communities through legal empowerment and movement building.

• Natural Justice has transitioned its operational structure from five separate programmes—Climate Change; Conservation and Customary Use; Extractives and Infrastructure; Governance of Lands and Natural Resources; and Traditional Knowledge and Benefit Sharing—into three integrated programmatic streams to reduce "programmatic “silos”".
• The 'Affirming and Securing Rights to Lands, Resources and Knowledge' stream aims to increase community control over ecosystems and traditional knowledge by 2022. Specific targets include increasing the legal recognition of Indigenous Peoples and Community Conserved Territories and Areas (ICCAs) and ensuring traditional knowledge is included in national climate policies.
• The 'Defending Rights against Environmental and Social Impacts' stream focuses on stopping fossil fuel projects, land grabs, and non-compliant infrastructure projects. Key 2022 targets include building climate-related litigation cases and operationalising a community solidarity fund and an environmental defenders fund.
• The 'Standing with Communities' stream seeks to increase legal empowerment and movement building led by women and youth. This includes strengthening customary governance institutions and documenting best practices for Community Environmental Legal Officers (CELOs), Community Protocols, and Community Auditing.
• Natural Justice employs specific legal empowerment tools, including the biocultural community protocol process, which helps communities define a vision and manage traditional knowledge and natural resources based on free, prior and informed consent. They also utilize the Community Environmental Legal Officer (CELO) Initiative to provide ongoing local-to-national support.
• The organisation's resourcing strategy consists of three elements: a Funding Growth Strategy to expand the donor base; a Sustainability Strategy focusing on innovation, financial reserves, and human resources; and an Internal Systems Strategy to update technology infrastructure biennially.

APA

Natural Justice (2020). NATURAL JUSTICE STRATEGY. https://naturaljustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/NJ_STRATEGY-DOCUMENT_Web-72ppi.pdf

Chicago

Natural Justice. NATURAL JUSTICE STRATEGY. 2020. https://naturaljustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/NJ_STRATEGY-DOCUMENT_Web-72ppi.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{naturaljustice2020natural, author = {{Natural Justice}}, title = {{NATURAL JUSTICE STRATEGY}}, institution = {Natural Justice}, year = {2020}, url = {https://naturaljustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/NJ_STRATEGY-DOCUMENT_Web-72ppi.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }