Charles Mwangi

Multilateral promises have not reached last-mile communities, so Africa is writing its own climate law. @AfrikParliament and PACJA opened consultations today on the Pan-African Model Law on Climate Change. #PACJA #ClimateJustice #Africa

Dr. Mithika Mwenda, PhD remarks (represented by Charles Mwangi, Head of Programmes) at today's Africa Resillience Collaborative Roundtable carried a line that reframed everything discussed across both side events: the moment for congratulating ourselves on how far climate advocacy has come is over. What remains is the harder work of building the financial architecture that actually reaches the people it was meant for. Speaking on behalf of the Africa Resilience Collaborative, Dr Mwenda named the number that both today's sessions circled back to — roughly 10 percent of climate finance flowing to Africa ever reaches grassroots communities. He described ARC's founding as a response to that exact failure: an informal collaborative of African re-granting organisations formed not to create another funding mechanism, but to bridge the gap between donors seeking to fund local action and the communities that most need it. His sharpest point was about who gets excluded by design. Community-based innovations rarely need millions of dollars to work. What they lack is a partner willing to look past the "unfundable" label that keeps grassroots organisations locked out of seed capital before they ever get a chance to prove themselves. That argument connects directly to what Tax Justice Network Africa (@TaxJusticeAfric) raised earlier in the same Roundtable — that Africa's adaptation finance gap isn't only a mobilisation problem, it's a retention one, shaped by illicit financial flows and tax rules that limit what African countries can raise domestically in the first place. And it extends into what the ARC Strategy Session spent its afternoon building: a roadmap that turns a shared diagnosis into governance structures, workstreams and coordination mechanisms robust enough to survive past COP32, rather than dissolving once the summit ends. The Development Partners Roundtable, convened separately by PACJA and the Embassy of Denmark, was testing a version of the same question with a different audience. Not whether Africa's priorities are legitimate — that question closed years ago — but whether the partners in the room are willing to convert dialogue into finance that is predictable, accessible and accountable once it moves. Dr Mwenda's closing call was for development partners, governments and pan-African institutions to embrace a shift in climate finance built around equity and responsiveness to the most vulnerable, rather than one where scale of disbursement gets mistaken for scale of impact. Read against the accountability standard he set for CCDA-XIV on its opening day — evidence must inform the agenda, and implementation must be accountable to African people — his ARC remarks weren't a separate speech. They were the same argument, aimed at the exact point where finance either reaches a community or doesn't. #PACJA #ClimateJustice #Africa #CCDAXIV #ARC #ClimateFinance #LocallyLed #Adaptation #COP32 #GlobalSouth

Julius Kamau, E.B.S., Director of Sustainability at Equity Group Holdings, brought a private-sector perspective to today's Africa Resilience Collaborative launch — co-organised by #PACJA alongside Tax Justice Network Africa, TrustAfrica, the African Climate Foundation and LIFE-AR. Mr Kamau confirmed Equity Group's active involvement in the Collaborative, framing the bank's role around financial inclusion as a resilience strategy in its own right, particularly for populations already carrying the weight of climate impacts. His account centered on an African-led, community-embedded model that treats vulnerable individuals as members rather than customers — a distinction he tied directly to Equity Group's stated belief in shared prosperity rather than transactional service delivery. He described a capital strategy built on diversity rather than a single funding source: grants, technical assistance and private finance working together, with the group also drawing on international partnerships to extend that reach further. His intervention added a private financial institution's voice to a Collaborative otherwise anchored in civil society and philanthropic re-granting — a signal that closing Africa's adaptation finance gap will likely require capital from every part of that spectrum, not one sector working in isolation. #PACJA #ClimateJustice #Africa #ARC #ClimateFinance #FinancialInclusion #LocallyLed #Adaptation #COP32 #GlobalSouth @TrustAfrica African Climate Foundation LIFE-AR

PACJA kicks off engagement at the 12th Africa Forum on Sustainable Development (#ARFSD12) in Addis Ababa! In a session organized by UONGOZI Institute & UNECA, our ED, Mithika Mwenda @mithika_mwenda, highlighted pathways to beneficiation & regional value chains in critical minerals. • Africa is rich in minerals but poor in value capture positioning matters rather than geology • We must move beyond extraction to processing & manufacturing • Beneficiation = power, skills, trade, policy & market access • No energy = no processing; no logistics = no manufacturing • Regional cooperation is critical • Africa must not power the global transition and remain powerless #ARFSD12 #SustainableDevelopment #CriticalMinerals #AfricaRising

The clock is ticking, and #C4A is just around the corner. Agriculture's role in climate change is undeniable. We have to tackle this challenge for resilient #Africa. Join the conversation! Register today: bit.ly/3RU1hdJ #Adaptation4Africa #Agriculture4Resilience #COP28