JENA will seek to achieve the following objectives under Climate Justice & Sustainable Food:

• Improved awareness and understanding around local climate change vulnerabilities and impacts, and mechanisms to enable greater engagement with like-minded external actors to adapt to these vulnerabilities and impacts
• Increased contribution to systemic changes with regard to national and international development policies and strategies that enhance community resilience to climate-related events and changes.
• Increased understanding of the context of the communities under which the research is conducted.
• Increased knowledge, skills, and competencies of local adaptation team members trained in planning and conducting survey research for collecting data necessary for establishing adaptation coalitions.
• Increased understanding of the types and nature of the community capitals present in the community, including local vulnerabilities and impacts of climate change.
• Increased availability of primary data and information from the communities and potential partners necessary for establishing adaptation coalitions.
• Increased understanding of specific issues about vulnerabilities and impacts of climate change, and potential external actors to partner with in forming adaptation coalitions.
• Increased understanding by the community members of specific climate change vulnerabilities and impacts affecting their well-being, and the potential community-based actions to address the problem(s).
• Enhanced collaboration between external partners and the local community for joint planning and execution of adaptation coalition activities