Surge Africas’ 2025 Annual Report
At Surge Africa, we are pleased to publish our 2025 Annual Report, highlighting a year of organisational transition, expanded programming, and continued investment in climate governance, resilient development, and strategic media across Africa.
Over the past year, we continued to strengthen our work across climate governance, resilient development, policy research, and strategic media while introducing a new organisational strategy designed to support our long-term vision. Throughout 2025, we also restructured our governance and operations, laying the foundation for the next phase of our growth.
Across different cities: Cape Town, London, Magaliesberg and Kano, we hosted programs, launched campaigns, and resourced communities. We convened policymakers and pastoralists, filmmakers and frontline defenders, youth negotiators and government officials.
Our Resilience Workstream expanded the Jeji Restoration project to a record 36 hectares of land under our care, raising 28,000 seedlings in a single planting season and hosted impactful sessions and led a powerful delegation of government officials and policy makers to the Rise Africa festival, 2025 in Capetown.
Through Impact Media, we officially launched the Silenced Echoes documentary , hosted the second edition of the Climate Litigation Lab in Johannesburg, and brought a delegation of impact producers to Durban FilmMart.
The Climate Reporting Gap Initiative, launched its first fellowship, a partnership with One World Media, Mutante, and the University of Birmingham, selected 6 fellows and provided each with a £5,000 grant to carry out projects bridging the climate-energy nexus.
The Policy, Research & Innovation Hub (PRIH) harmonises our policy, research and innovation work; housing our research publications, policy advocacy and Climate Security Work.
This report provides an overview of our programmes, partnerships, campaigns, publications, and financial performance throughout the 2025 financial year. More importantly, it reflects how we are adapting our work to respond to emerging challenges while remaining committed to locally driven, evidence-based approaches to climate action.
We are grateful to our partners, funders, collaborators, and communities for their continued trust and support. Their contributions have made this work possible.
As we look ahead, we remain focused on building stronger institutions, supporting informed policymaking, and working with communities and partners to advance climate resilience and governance across Africa.