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The Climate Justice and Resilience Toolkit has been developed with the participation of 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.

Contributors to the Climate Justice and Resilience Toolkit

Our project partners have not only contributed finance and time but also their passion, knowledge and commitment to climate justice and resilience. 

Who has participated in the development of the Climate Justice and Resilience Toolkit?

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 contribute 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. 

People:

  • Members of the Climate Justice Union’s Lived Experience Advisory Group (Justice LEAG)
  • Members of the Healthy Environments and Lives Network (HEAL) WA Aboriginal Steering Group (ASG)
  • Caroline Porteous
  • Dominique Chanovre
  • Doreen Wijekoon
  • Dr Mehran Nejati, Centre for People, Place and Planet, School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University
  • Dr Naomi Joy Godden, Associate Professor, Centre for People, Place and Planet, Edith Cowan University
  • Dr Libby Jackson-Barrett, Centre for People, Place and Planet, Edith Cowan University
  • Ellie Edwards, Edith Cowan University
  • Eva Cisza
  • Georgia Beardman, Edith Cowan University
  • Jack Collard
  • Jocasta Sibbel, Community Legal WA
  • Jacob West
  • Jaime Yallup Farrant, Climate Justice Union
  • Jason Barrow (Goreng Wadjari Noongar)
  • Jo Taylor, The Kids Research Institute Australia
  • Joy Hu
  • Dr Kylie Wrigley, Centre for People, Place and Planet, Edith Cowan University and Climate Justice Union
  • Leandra Healy
  • Pamela Macnish
  • Pauline Scott
  • Professor Janine Joyce, Centre for People, Place and Planet, Edith Cowan University
  • Raphaela Raaber, Centre for People, Place and Planet, Edith Cowan University
  • Ro (Phoenix) Bersten, intertwine
  • Sean Corr
  • Dr Shajimon Peter, Edith Cowan University
  • Sophie Hantz, Western Australian Council of Social Service
  • Dr Susan Bailey, Edith Cowan University
  • Vicky Gonzalez Burrows, MercyCare

Organisations:

  • Strategic Research Centre for People, Places and Planet, Edith Cowan University
  • Healthy Environments and Lives Network Western Australia 
  • Climate Justice Union WA
  • MercyCare 
  • Rise
  • Western Australia Council of Social Service
  • Community Legal WA
  • intertwine
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Who else gave advice?

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. 

  • Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet
  • Australian Indigenous Governance Institute (AIGI)
  • Carole Green, WA Council of Social Service
  • Cecilia Chitukula, Centre for People, Place and Planet, Edith Cowan University
  • Christine Smith, WA Disaster Recovery Coordinator, The Salvation Army Emergency Services
  • Dr Claire Fitzpatrick, Communications Lecturer, Edith Cowan University
  • Financial Counsellors’ Association of Western Australia
  • Dr Mariana Atkins, Centre for Social Impact University of Western Australia
  • Michael Bradley, Marque Lawyers
  • Peter Durrant
  • Stephanie Tran, Marque Lawyer
  • Associate Professor Tanya Notley, Western Sydney University
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Who has funded the Climate Justice and Resilience Toolkit?

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 Service, Rise Community Australia, Centre for Just Places, MercyCare, Anglicare WA, Climate Justice Union WA. 

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