Dialogues & Conversations* Policy* Impact Media* Resilient Development*
Surge Africa works with local, regional and international multilateral institutions to deliver programs and interventions that addresses the climate crisis and environmental justice. Our broad array of programs from groundwork to dialogues, policy analysis, regional exchanges, learning workshops and experiential labs, supports integration of energy security and natural resources management hollistically as part of a broader development framework.
We operate from Nigeria, and have delivered programs in Ghana, Senegal, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, UK and Brazil.
Guiding Principles
Deeply Rooted in Local Struggles
We develop and center our thinking and programs around urgently responding to emerging issues as they affect frontline and local communities.
Network and Alliance Building
We leverage the power of people and movements to strengthen the scope of our approach to reach and impact more people.
Use Data and Research to Amplify Policy And Diplomacy
We experiment with systems thinking approaches to address diverse and multi-sectoral issues through public engagements with decision makers as a priority to ensure change happens.
Weaving Intersectionality Across People, Systems, and Regions
We are driven by the belief that solution driven initiatives must scale across people and issue areas, and that is possible only by creating understanding of interlinkages of the crisis to create a new paradigm shift towards positive actions.
OUR STORY
Founded in 2017
We started out as a grassroots organization, centering our role as local champions of change. Our earliest projects were around climate education and landscape restoration, extending to community engagement on sustainable practices as it intersects with indigenous knowledge, practices and values.
As we engage more with people and organizations within the climate and movement building space, we expose ourselves to advocates and groups from different regions, facing different struggles but a shared goal for social, economic and environmental justice. We begin to revisit our mandate to restructure ourselves towards a forward thinking approach, seeking to address and counter existing and emerging socio-economic and environmental challenges.
Rescoping in 2020
As we continuously evolve, grow and reinvent ourselves, we’ve rooted our thinking, belief and program approach in pursuing justice, inclusivity and equality for people, communities and regions most affected by the multidimensional effect of climate change; these are frontline peoples who are most vulnerable to the climate impact, and most likely to be left behind.