Let’s raise up solutions that strive to achieve gender and climate justice! We Women are Water
Around the world, women-led initiatives are demonstrating how to protect and restore one of our most vital resources: water.
These transformative initiatives need massive support and resources, while false climate solutions, privatization of water resources, pollution from extractive industries and human rights violations must stop immediately.
Narrated by women from the communities affected themselves, the We Women are Water Campaign presents a series of videos to raise awareness on the action of women and their communities around the globe to protect their ecosystems against false climate solutions that destroy their territories while leading gender just climate and water solutions.
The Magar Indigenous community in Nepal are facing threats to their land and resources due to a hydropower project financed by the Asian Development Bank, the European Investment Bank and the Japan International Cooperation Agency. For centuries the community has maintained a symbiotic relationship with nature, passing down traditional ecological knowledge for generations such as planting broom grass to prevent soil erosion and landslides.
The Yaataah community in Nigeria’s Niger Delta have been impacted by fossil fuel extraction by companies like Shell and the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation. The community’s women, with the help of an organization, trained 250 women and girls in mangrove restoration and biodiversity management. They aim to restore 500,000 mangroves a year and 5 million mangroves within the next decade. –
What is a gender just climate and water solution
Gender just climate and water solutions* encompass a range of activities that aim to address the water crisis and climate change mitigation and adaptation, while also supporting the systemic redistribution of power, recognizing water as a human right and providing opportunities and access for women, girls and trans, intersex and non binary people. In particular, ensuring that activities do not reinforce harmful gendered norms. Gender just climate and water solutions are being implemented by communities across the globe, and deserve to be fully recognized, funded, replicated and scaled!
*Since 2015, the Women and Gender Constituency’s (WGC) Gender Just Climate Solutions Awards Program has identified many examples of gender just climate solutions –see the directory here. GAGGA, via national and regional environmental justice and women’s rights funds and NGOs, supports various gender just climate and water solutions across the world.
The Global Alliance for Green and Gender Action calls for a commitment from governments, international development banks and funds to uphold the human right to water and invest in women’s leadership in gender just climate and water solutions now !
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Contact Noemi Grutter at n.grutter@fondocentroamericano.org for ways to get involved.
Twitter: @GAGGA_Alliance #WeWomenAreWater
You can also find this campaign statement in Spanish, French and Portuguese.
Check out the social media toolkit, available in Spanish, French and Portuguese.
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