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SUMMARY:High-Level Expert Roundtable On Critical Minerals & Just Energy Transition Diplomacy
DESCRIPTION:(Pictured\, Mama Graça Michel and the SARW team. Left to Right: Davie Malungisa\, Monica Mbugua\, Dr. Claude Kabemba\, Mama Graça Michel\, Gerson Mendes\, Sandra Sitole\, Georges Mbuyu) \nBetween the 25th and 26th of March\, SARW hosted the Expert High-Level Roundtable on Critical Minerals & Just Energy Transition Diplomacy\, bringing together policymakers\, experts\, civil society leaders\, and development partners to explore how Africa can strengthen its voice in global minerals governance and climate diplomacy while advancing equitable resource-based industrialisation. \nFollowing two days of high-level deliberations in Magaliesberg\, South Africa\, leaders from civil society\, business\, academia\, diplomacy\, and African institutions issued a bold call: the African Union must declare Green Minerals a continental emergency. \nThis is not just a statement—it is a shift in strategy. \nThe gathering put forward a unified agenda to: \n\nEstablish an African Green Minerals Producers’ Coalition under the AU\, led by a Heads of State Steering Committee.\nLaunch a High-Level Panel of eminent persons on Green Minerals to drive Green Minerals diplomacy across national\, regional\, continental\, and global levels.\nSet up a Technical Support Committee to support the High-Level panel\n\nThe meeting called on African countries to: \n\nMove decisively from raw material exports to value addition\, industrialisation\, and regional value chains on African soil.\nStrengthen geological data systems\, research\, skills development\, and South–South technology and innovation partnerships.\n\nWhat makes this different? Immediate action. \nConcrete\, time-bound commitments have already been agreed— Grounded in the principle of One Voice\, One Strategy. \nThis initiative is about repositioning Africa—not as a supplier at the margins—but as a central actor in the global green minerals value chain and energy transition. \nWe were pleased to have Mama Graça Michel deliver the keynote address at the High-Level Roundtable\, leaving every participant inspired and charged with determination to produce solutions to the emergency facing Africa. \nRead the Communique released following the meeting on our home page: www.sarwatch.co.za
URL:https://www.sarwatch.co.za/event/high-level-expert-roundtable-on-critical-minerals-just-energy-transition-diplomacy/
CATEGORIES:Capacity Building,Inception and Engagement meeting,Information sharing and Advocacy,Strategic Engagement on Climate
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SUMMARY:Pamoja Critical Minerals Alliance Continental Launch
DESCRIPTION:The Pamoja Critical Minerals Alliance – Africa (PCMA)\, a grassroots continental initiative facilitated by the Southern Africa Resource Watch (SARW)\, convened its inaugural Continental Strategy Planning Workshop and Official Launch on 25-26 February 2026 in Harare\, Zimbabwe. This landmark gathering took place at a critical moment as Africa’s critical minerals are at the centre of global geopolitical competition\, climate policy\, and energy transition pathways. While these minerals are essential for global decarbonisation\, many African communities continue to face poverty and exclusion from centuries of mining and general resource extractivism\, plunder\, displacement\, labour exploitation\, and environmental harm. \nThe workshop provided a structured\, participatory space to craft a three-year continental strategy that strengthens people-centred resource governance\, equitable industrialisation\, electrification\, and environmental justice\, led by frontline communities\, indigenous people\, faith-based\, disability rights advocates and workers. Guided by the central question – How can PAMOJA CMA safeguard the rights and dignity of African people while advancing just transitions and resource-based industrialisation? – the convening prioritised social movement approaches that strengthen cross-sector people-to-people solidarity and practical campaign design. \nThe workshop brought together grassroots activists\, Indigenous leaders\, trade unions\, faith-based organizations\, women’s and youth movements\, disability rights advocates\, and policy experts from across the continent. Through interactive panels\, breakout sessions\, participatory mapping\, and strategy labs\, participants collaboratively developed a continental action agenda. The Alliance was formally launched at the close of Day Two\, on Thursday\, 26 February\, accompanied by a media briefing and a public declaration. \nRead the full breakdown here: https://mailchi.mp/sarwatch/february-newsletter-18241701
URL:https://www.sarwatch.co.za/event/pamoja-critical-minerals-alliance-continental-launch/
LOCATION:Harare\, Zimbabwe
CATEGORIES:Capacity Building,Inception and Engagement meeting,Information sharing and Advocacy,Strategic Engagement on Climate
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