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The survey was crafted by the Global Justice Program and shared with relevant African organizations. It was distributed as a Google Form in three languages: English, French, and Arabic. The English-language version of the survey is reproduced below.
The Global Justice Program at the Othering & Belonging Institute at the University of California, Berkeley - United States, invites your organization to participate in a survey on climate, agri-food, and environmental activism and civil society efforts in Africa.
Who We Are
The Global Justice Program examines and exposes the structures that contribute to the marginalization of communities around the world, and envisions ways of dismantling such structures. In doing so, our program and Institute aim to cultivate an inclusive, shared destiny and a sustainable world. This survey is informed by our Climate Justice Principles and our desire to support mission-oriented environmental, agri-food, and climate movements in Africa, which are key to building a more just world.
Why This Survey
This survey is a first step in establishing a relationship with your organization, and learning more about the missions, approaches, and needs of African organizations in general that are working on climate, agri-food, and environmental issues across the continent. Our goal is to have at least one organization from every country in Africa participate in our survey. The survey will run from February 15th - March 21st, and the information and data collected will allow us to identify shared visions, objectives, needs, and areas of meaningful collaboration.
What Will Result From This Survey
We intend to use the information gathered from the survey to facilitate collective dialogue, collaboration, and thought leadership amongst our Institute and climate, agri-food, and environmental organizations across Africa. We will share the findings from the survey with your organization, and we intend to release the findings through the Othering & Belonging Institute in a short publication once the survey is complete and the data has been analyzed.
How To Complete This Survey
The survey is short, yet comprehensive, and will take 30 minutes or less to complete. If you have any questions about this survey, please contact us at globaljustice@berkeley.edu.
We greatly appreciate your participation and we are excited to learn from, and to support, the important work that your organization is leading.
Sincerely, The Global Justice Program
Part I: Contact Information and Overview of your Organization
- First and Last Name
- Preferred language(s) for communication
- Name of organization
- Year organization established
- Your role within the organization
- Please list the country/countries where your organization operates
- Please include a website address or social media links for your organization
Part II: Identified Issue Areas, Solutions, and Frameworks of your Organization
- What are the primary communities your organization serves? (Please select your top three choices):
- Displaced persons
- Elderly
- Farmers
- Fisherpeople
- Persons with disabilities
- Poor and low-income populations
- Rural populations
- Unemployed people/informal workers
- Urban populations
- Women
- Workers
- Youth
- What are the primary climatic problems your organization is trying to address? (Please select your top three choices):
- Desertification
- Drought
- Extreme temperature
- Floods
- Pollution
- Rising sea levels and coastal erosion
- Soil erosion
- Water shortages
- Wildfires
- What are the primary socio-environmental problems your organization is trying to address? (Please select your top three choices):
- Agricultural pests
- Bureaucratic and regulatory issues
- Debt and finance
- Disease
- Food insecurity
- Foreign ownership (land)
- Foreign ownership (infrastructure)
- Limited infrastructure
- Pollution
- Land tenure
- Poverty
- Resource extraction
- Soil fertility and land exhaustion
- Water privatization
- What does your organization believe are the short-term solutions to the issues your organization is trying to address? (Please select your top three choices):
- Advance food sovereignty
- Advance farmers’ land rights
- Advance women’s rights
- Cancel or mitigate external national debt
- Increase access to technology (agricultural equipment, clean cook stoves, infrastructure for electricity production, etc.)
- Increase or improve environmental regulations (emissions and fuel quality standards, protected areas, etc.)
- Improve infrastructure (dams, reservoirs, seawalls, etc.)
- Support fisherpeoples rights and access to safe aquatic ecosystems
- What does your organization believe are the long-term solutions to the issues your organization is trying to address? (Please select your top three choices):
- Collectivization of farming (agricultural cooperatives, state farms, etc.)
- Eliminate poverty
- End predatory extractivist models of development
- Ensure food sovereignty
- Incorporate a climate education into primary and secondary education
- Improve public health infrastructures
- Improve public transportation infrastructures
- Reduce GHG emissions in the top-emitting countries
- Reduce GHG emissions in your country
- Scale up sustainable agriculture (agroecological methods, reduced petrochemical fertilizer and pesticide use, soil restoration techniques, etc.)
- Strengthen citizens' participation in the political process
- Strengthen regulations for multinational corporation/s
- Transition away from fossil fuel based-economy
- What work is your organization actively doing to advance toward these short and long-term solutions? (Please select your top three choices):
- Consulting with civil society
- Consulting with multinational corporation/s
- Consulting with government
- Consulting with impacted communities
- Legal litigation
- Organizing campaigns and advocacy in communities
- Providing educational curricula on the climate crisis
- Raising public awareness
- Research, analysis, and policy advocacy
- Securing and distributing funding to individuals, families, or communities
- Securing and distributing technology
Part III: Partner Organizations, Types of Support your Organization Needs, and International Engagement
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Is your organization using particular frameworks or concepts to guide its work? (Please select your top three choices):
- Agrarian reform
- Conservation
- Ecology
- Environmentalism
- Equity
- Food sovereignty
- Human rights
- Just Transition
- Labor rights
- Self-reliance
- Social Justice
- Sovereignty
- Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- Traditional knowledge
- Women's rights
- At what scale does your organization conduct its work? (Please select all that apply):
- At the local level
- At the national level
- At the regional level (multiple neighboring countries)
- At the continental level (across the African continent)
- At the global level
- Does your organization work with other environmental agri-food, and climate organizations in Africa?
- Yes
- No
- Please list the African environmental agri-food, and climate organizations your organization works with, and where they conduct their work (if applicable):
- Does your organization work with environmental agri-food, and climate organizations outside of Africa?
- Yes
- No
- Please list the non-African environmental agri-food, and climate organizations your organization works with, and where they conduct their work (if applicable):
- What kinds of material support does your organization need to remedy the challenges it seeks to address? (Please select your top three choices):
- Information technology infrastructure (hardware, software, networks, etc.)
- Staff training
- Funding
- Research
- Training (IT, Research and Development, funding procurement, etc.)
- What kinds of institutional support does your organization need to remedy the challenges it seeks to address? (Please select your top three choices):
- Connections to international organizations and networks
- Connections to regional organizations and networks
- Connections to international funders
- Legal advice
- Overall, how effectively do Global North NGOs address the most important environmental, agri-food, and climate problems that affect the communities or constituencies your organization serves?
- Very effectively
- Somewhat effectively
- Not effectively
- What can Global North NGOs do to support African environmental, agri-food, and climate organizations more effectively? (Please select your top three choices):
- Advocate for increased regulations on multinational corporation/s
- Amplify and center the voices of African organizations to Global North governments and civil society
- Foster working relationships and partnerships among African organizations
- Foster working relationships and partnerships between African organizations and Global North civil society
- Focus on shifting policies and practices within their home countries to reduce the exploitation and extraction of land, resources, and labor from the African continent and Africans
- Increase their activities in Africa
- Modify and conduct their activities in line with suggestions, insight, and demands from African organizations
- Pay closer attention to the work done by African organizations
- Provide unrestricted funding
- Provide technology or technological equipment
- Provide skill-based training
- Reduce their activities in Africa
- Share research findings
- Do you think people outside of Africa adequately understand the risks that the climate crisis and other agri-food and environmental problems pose to Africans?
- Yes
- Somewhat
- No
- Do you think environmental, agri-food, and climate organizations outside of Africa adequately understand the risks that the climate crisis and other agri-food and environmental problems pose to Africans?
- Yes
- Somewhat
- No
- What should African environmental, agri-food, and climate organizations demand from the international community to address the social and environmental problems facing African communities? (Please select your top three choices):
- Genuine commitment to transparent, equitable, and mutually beneficial trade agreements
- Greater commitment to reducing GHG emissions
- Increased access to unrestricted private funds
- Increased access to unrestricted public funds
- Increased regulations on multinational corporation/s
- Increased technology transfer
- Public investment in African sustainable agriculture
- Public investment in African education
- Public investment in African physical infrastructures
- Public investment in African public health infrastructures
- Increase the presence of African organizations in international bodies
- Oppose the militarization of the African continent
- Challenge economic exploitations of Africa's natural resources by multinational corporation/s
- Please include additional information you would like to share with our team, or use this space to elaborate on any of your answers to the survey questions (write-in your response below).
