About us
EJF is an activist-driven, feminist NGO that provides support to environmental and climate justice organisations in South Africa.
EJF’s vision is that environmental justice prevails in a South Africa where all people enjoy an environment which is not harmful to their health and wellbeing, and the environment is protected for the benefit of present and future generations.
Objectives
Our objective is to strengthen the environmental justice movement in South Africa by supporting the operation of effective, resilient, community-led organisations, operating in strong and expanding networks, that are working to advance environmental justice.
To that end, EJF supports community-based organisations and environmental justice activists to:
Design and implement their own responses to environmental injustice
Innovate on environmental justice projects
Operate sustainably
Be accountable to the communities in whose interests they act
Operate as part of a broader sectoral agenda
Break in’ to the environmental justice sector as new organisations
What we do
Grant-making:
We fund events, projects or campaigns designed to advance environmental justice. We also consider applications for organisational-strengthening initiatives. We understand that sometimes it is not possible to predict things in advance, and can therefore provide emergency grants to support responses to urgent and unforeseen crisis.
Accompaniment:
We walk alongside our grantees by providing and facilitating capacity-building support. This can include strengthening skills, expanding areas of knowledge or connecting organisations working on similar struggles in order to promote learning and solidarity.
How we work
EJF is no ordinary funder. It is a fund ‘by activists, for activists’ and adopts a participatory grant-making model. This means that decisions on who gets support are made by a group of activists from the environmental justice sector who serve on EJF’s Grants Committee. We operate accessibly, accountably, and collaboratively, and prioritise the well-being of our staff and partners.
