The Climate Justice and Resilience Toolkit is co-produced by People with Lived Experience, Aboriginal Traditional Owners, community service organisations and climate justice researchers at Edith Cowan University’s Centre for People, Place and Planet. It is funded and supported by Lotterywest, the Commonwealth Government and the WA Department of Fire and Emergency Services.
The Climate Justice and Resilience Toolkit provides free tools and resources for community service organisations to infuse climate justice and disaster resilience into their operations, policies, programs and practices. The Toolkit covers community-led disaster resilience, climate justice advocacy, processes for engaging with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and People with Lived Experience, resources to identify climate injustices in local communities, and ways to transform organisational policies and systems. The Toolkit is part of a long-term project to support the community service sector to effectively respond to the social justice impacts of climate change.
Our project partners have not only contributed finance and time but also their passion, knowledge and commitment to climate justice and resilience.
This project is governed by the Healthy Environments and Lives Network WA Aboriginal Steering Group. We deeply acknowledge their contribution to the strategic direction of the project. We also acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders and Traditional Owners who contributed to the Toolkit content. We thank the Climate Justice Union’s Lived Experience Advisory Group who also provide project governance. People with Lived Experience also contribute their time and expertise to developing the Toolkit content.
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Throughout the project, we held many meetings with people, experts and organisations. Those have provided significant contributions, advice and feedback to the Climate Justice and Resilience Toolkit resources.
We thank the organisations who funded this project: Lotterywest, the Commonwealth Government with the support of the Western Australian Department of Fire and Emergency Services (DFES), Edith Cowan University, Western Australian Council of Social Services (WACOSS), Rise Community Australia, Centre for Just Places, MercyCare, Anglicare WA, Climate Justice Union WA.
We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Custodians of Country throughout the Australian continent and their continuing connections to land, waters, community and culture. We pay our respects to Elders past and present and acknowledge that sovereignty has never been ceded.
We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and their continuing connection to land, waters and community. We pay our respects to them and their cultures and to their Elders past, present and emerging.
We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and their continuing connection to land, waters and community. We pay our respects to them and their cultures and to their Elders past, present and emerging.