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Validation retreat of the CEJAD 2024-2028 strategic plan

The Centre for Environmental Justice and Development (CEJAD) organized a 2-day retreat at Maanzoni Lodge in Machakos from 20th to 22nd June 2023. The objective was to reflect on CEJAD's growth since its foundation, celebrate achievements, and jointly define a strategic plan for the next five years.

This strategic approach aims to maximize the organization's impact in alignment with its mission.

Moreover, the strategic plan will empower CEJAD to build stronger partnerships, enhance resource mobilization initiatives, and engage partners and stakeholders more effectively and meaningfully, including communities collaborating with the organization. 

Recognizing the significance of addressing the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer—an international agreement to safeguard the Earth's ozone layer by phasing out chemicals that harm it—the retreat provided a pivotal opportunity to incorporate this new program “Ozone and Climate Action Program” into CEJAD's strategic agenda.

Following deliberations and discussions led by the CEJAD team, with the valuable input of a consultant, a draft document has been collectively agreed upon. This draft will serve as the cornerstone for the final Strategic Plan 2024-2028.

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Under this program, CEJAD aims to eliminate the risk posed by exposure to lead in paints to women and children, and improve the regulatory frameworks to phase out lead in paint at national, regional and international level.

Our work under this program aims to promote the phase out of Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs) from use, especially in agriculture to protect human health and the environment. The use of HHPs is threatening the lives of vulnerable populations, food systems, biodiversity and the environment at large.

Our work under the Mercury Program aims to protect human health and the environment from anthropogenic emissions and releases of mercury and mercury compounds in line with the Minamata Convention on Mercury, a legally binding global treaty adopted in 2013. Kenya is a party to the Minamata Convention.

The Montreal Protocol, adopted in 1987, protects the ozone layer by regulating ozone-depleting substances (ODS), such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs). It mandates the phase-out of CFC and HCFC production and consumption with specific timeframes for different Parties, based on their status as a developed or developing country.

Our work under this program aims to reduce the health and environmental impacts associated with waste and plastics throughout their life cycle. Over the years, plastic and plastic products have emerged as problematic and hazardous to human health and the environment.