A Community Action Toolkit: A Roadmap for Using Environmental Rights to Fight Pollution

The toolkit is designed to empower marginalized communities, particularly in middle- and low-income countries, to fight pollution by leveraging environmental rights. It provides eight modules containing research indicators, worksheets, and templates to help users conduct policy research, collect pollution data, and build advocacy campaigns. Developed through the STRIPE project, the toolkit's methodology is based on five years of experience in Indonesia, Thailand, Mongolia, Jamaica, Morocco, and Tunisia. The document argues that strengthening these rights is essential for pollution accountability and the realization of the right to a healthy environment.

• Poor and marginalized communities, especially in middle- and low-income countries, disproportionately suffer from the health and socioeconomic impacts of pollution but often lack the political influence, advocacy skills, and awareness of their legal rights to demand change.
• Environmental rights, including access to information, public participation, and justice, serve as critical tools for improving the enforcement of pollution laws and holding both government and private sector actors accountable.
• The toolkit consists of eight modules featuring concepts, research indicators, and templates that can be adapted to specific national contexts to build the capacity for evidence-based advocacy and pollution accountability campaigns.
• The toolkit's methodology was developed over five years through the STRIPE project, involving partnerships with civil society and activists in Indonesia, Thailand, Mongolia, Jamaica, Morocco, and Tunisia.
• Application of the toolkit has led to tangible policy outcomes, such as Indonesia's Ministry of Environment and Forestry requiring the proactive availability of over 111 documents, maps, and reports via a new List of Public Information regulation.

APA

World Resources Institute (n.d.). A Community Action Toolkit: A Roadmap for Using Environmental Rights to Fight Pollution. https://www.wri.org/research/community-action-toolkit-roadmap-using-environmental-rights-fight-pollution

Chicago

World Resources Institute. A Community Action Toolkit: A Roadmap for Using Environmental Rights to Fight Pollution. n.d. https://www.wri.org/research/community-action-toolkit-roadmap-using-environmental-rights-fight-pollution.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldresourcesinstitutendcommunity, author = {{World Resources Institute}}, title = {{A Community Action Toolkit: A Roadmap for Using Environmental Rights to Fight Pollution}}, institution = {World Resources Institute}, url = {https://www.wri.org/research/community-action-toolkit-roadmap-using-environmental-rights-fight-pollution}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }