Church Climate Action Partnerships – CCAP

In April 2023, Dr. Anne-Christina Achterberg-Boness started her work as project coordinator for the project “Church Climate Action Partnerships”. She coordinates the project in close cooperation with her Tanzanian colleague and project coordinator Joygrace Shoo from the East of Lake Victoria Diocese (ELVD).

Dr. Anne-Christina Achterberg-Boness worked as project coordinator and deputy head of the projects and investments department of the ELVD. She was responsible for project development and implementation between 2016 and 2022. Projects she coordinated covered the areas of sustainable agriculture, sustainable water, sustainable tourism, music, scholarship programs, climate change adaptation and women’s empowerment. Her tasks included project development, writing applications and suggestions, implementation, budgets, monitoring and evaluation, writing reports and seminar coordination in all of the areas mentioned above.

“I am looking forward to a lively collaboration with the German and Tanzanian parishes in which we learn from each other and motivate each other. I really appreciate what we are doing together for climate protection,” said Dr. Anne-Christina Boness on her new role.

On April first, Joygrace Shoo started her work as project coordinator in the three-year project Church Climate Action Partnerships in the ELCT-ELVD.

Climate partnerships: transnational cooperation

As an employee of the ELCT-ELVD, she will coordinate the project in close cooperation with the German project coordination. The aim of the project is to network seven parishes and one church educational institution in the East of Lake Victoria Diocese in Tanzania and the North Church in thematically focused climate partnerships and thus to support them in their joint action against the climate crisis and their adaptation to the consequences to strengthen this. As part of the three-year climate partnerships, climate action plans are developed and implemented at community level. Accompanied by a training program and digital exchange, knowledge and skills for climate protection and adaptation to climate change are being built up.

Experienced project coordinator

As project coordinator and head of planning and investment department at ELVD, Joygrace Shoo between 2017 -2022 had managed community based projects with the focus of improving majority livelihood, to transform knowledge on mother and child health to pregnant women and their partners, to serve most vulnerable children in the community, to address stunting to children under five.
During these years she was responsible for proposal writing, project planning, development and implementation of strategic plan, monitoring and evaluation of the project. Overseer of the budget and action planned, report writer and report compilation of different activities implemented by departments

Preserving and Protecting Creation

From her perspective, The earth is the Lord′s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it; for he founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters.”, Joygrace Shoo said since God commissions us to rule over the creation in a way that sustains, protects, and enhances his works ‘It’s going to be a wonderful experience to partner between parishes and bring best to the world for present and future generation’’.
All seven parishes and one church educational institution in the East of Lake Victoria Diocese -Tanzania are enthusiastically ready to co-operate with their parish partners in Germany.