This charter was launched in light of the regional campaign “Sustainable Climate” launched by the Misr El Kheir Foundation in May 2022, with cooperation and sponsorship. Many local and international organizations and government agencies.

The campaign aims to support the expected role For Arab civil society organizations to confront the repercussions of climate change within their national framework. Our Hands is a proposed draft document for the Climate Action Charter for Arab Civil Society Organizations, one of the products of that campaign. The charter includes a system of main rules and principles that can govern future paths of action for us as Arab civil society organizations in supporting issues of sustainable development in general and climate action in particular, and in a way that ensures that our future plans take into account that crucial issue without regard to our priority field of work and practices and taking into account the nature of each. A civil society organization.

And we, as representatives of Arab civil society organizations within this campaign, are associations And action networks and unions. We call on all Arab civil society organizations with all their organizations, including non-governmental organizations, professional unions, community associations, federations, various work networks...etc.) to review that draft of the Climate Action Charter document, discuss it, conduct a community dialogue about it, and join in activating that system of rules and principles and ensuring their implementation in the organization’s activities and projects, so that we can enhance the contributions of civil society. Arab League in supporting issues of sustainable development and climate action.