Natural Justice recruits 01 National Consultant doing the analysis of the relevant legal framework applicable to the environment, land, climate change and energy.
Natural Justice is an organisation rooted in the struggles of communities in Africa. As a team of pioneering lawyers and legal experts, we specialise in human rights and environmental law in pursuit of social and environmental justice.
Natural Justice strives to enhance the collective rights of people and protect the sacred relationships that indigenous peoples and local communities have with nature. Our work is informed by the values, knowledge and self-determination of the communities whom we stand in solidarity with. Through legal empowerment, research, policy influencing and litigation, and as part of coalitions and campaigns, we support communities to know the law, use the law and shape the law. Natural Justice has three main pillars: Affirming and Securing Rights to Lands, Resources and Knowledge; Defending Rights against Environmental and Social Impacts; and Standing with Communities.
To learn more about the work of Natural Justice please refer to www.naturaljustice.org
NJ, in the framework of the implementation of the Dutch POWER OF VOICE Programme, in partnership with other civil society organisations including PACJA, Oxfam Novib, FEMNET and AYC, has been awarded a grant to implement the African Activists for Climate Justice (AACJ) project which covers 8 countries across the African continent. The project has five components, three of which focus on strengthening the human rights framework, particularly environmental and related rights.
For a better intervention of NJ in Nigeria, it is imperative to have a good understanding of the legal and institutional framework of the environment in general and the legal framework on climate change and energy in particular. Indeed, a good knowledge of this framework would facilitate the work with the communities impacted by the exploitation of fossil resources but also a good advocacy for a fair and sustainable energy transition.
Therefore, one of the actions of the project is to know the legal and institutional framework. It is in this context that NJ is launching this call for proposals to recruit a consultant or a group of consultants to carry out the mission relating to the review of the legal framework of the environment of Nigeria.