Church Climate Action Partnerships – CCAP

Fabio Banet joined the CCAP team in May as project coordinator. Here’s what he says about his background, his work and the aims of the CCAP project:

„During my studies of political science in Halle and Hamburg, as well as various stays abroad in Ghana and Zambia, I became aware of the complexity and extent of the effects of climate change. In dealing with this issue the historical and social science approach has always been important to me, which makes it clear that the fossil-fuelled mode of production, which began in the global North, is the central driver of greenhouse gases. As part of the CCAP project, we want to address this problem through two pillars. On the one hand, we are working on climate justice by not only looking at how we can implement climate protection, but also how it can be socially just and adapted to different stakeholders. On the other hand, we are trying to reshape North-South partnerships and consciously address colonial continuities and dependencies. Climate change is our common challenge, for which we bear different responsibilities, but which we can only overcome together!“

(Photo: Fabio Banet)

On April 1, 2023, 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.

(Foto: Joygrace Shoo)