Through the SEMCCA programme, ICLEI aims to foster a strong and effective collaboration between people-powered community and civil society groups and their local governments, thereby enabling a robust and strategic collective movement for action. ICLEI supports the development of enabling conditions for revitalised civic and social participation, through designing and implementing tailored approaches, within a multi-level governance and social justice framework, in order to deliver ambitious, well-supported, scalable and replicable climate solutions.
Through the SEMCCA project, ICLEI supports the review of important documents such the countries’ National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) and Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), through a civil society and local government perspective. As such, civic society entry points can be revealed and thereby strengthened. These will help guide civic society activities/movements which ultimately improve urban policy alignment and climate policy development. In particular, the SEMCCA project will focus on three key urban themes: water, food and mobility, actively bringing these three urban ‘communities’ together to achieve climate action at scale within African city regions.