GAGGA Campaigns

  *Scroll down to access the campaign stories Enough with false climate solutions, the time is now to resource gender-just solutions to the water and climate crises The second instalment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report made it clear last week: climate change is a threat to human well-being and planetary health,Continue reading “GAGGA launches 2022 #WeWomenAreWater campaign”

For climate finance to support climate action in a just and effective way it needs to be gender-just. There are many successful and inspiring gender-just climate solutions, but they are grossly underfunded and climate finance decision-making continues to be exclusive. This call to action provides concrete recommendations to policymakers and government officials from UNFCCC Annex IContinue reading “Call to Action for Gender-Just Climate Finance”

Where are the voices of working-class and rural Black women in the larger story about COVID-19 in South Africa? This is a question I ask every single day as I read the newspapers, listen to and watch the seemingly endless news reports on radio and television. Over the last few days, I have been onContinue reading “Women in South Africa: Water a fundamental right in the time of COVID-19”

Residents of Honduras’ Sula Valley saw water rise to the roofs of their houses last November. This northwestern region of the country, already strongly affected by the pandemic, was devastated by floods caused by Hurricanes Eta and Iota making landfall within two weeks of each other. According to research, it is the first time onContinue reading “Honduran women weave a fabric of solidarity in the face of extractivism”

  On International Women’s Day (March 8th) the Global Alliance for Green and Gender Action (GAGGA) will launch the “We, Women are Water” campaign to highlight women’s role, demands and actions in ensuring water security in the face of climate change.  The interrelated crises of water, climate and COVID-19 all share the same root causes: a deeply unjust and patriarchalContinue reading “GAGGA launches “We, Women are Water” campaign 2021”

  Update: On the 13th of March the Global Alliance for Green and Gender Action (GAGGA) launched the “We, Women are Water” campaign. You can find all the 2020 campaign cases here: Chimpu Warmi in Lake Poopó, Bolivia The Feminist Collective in Suchitoto, El Salvador OMMI provides safe water in the Paraguayan Chaco Ixquisis womenContinue reading “GAGGA launches 2020 “We, Women are Water” campaign”

  During the month of March 2019 and for the third consecutive year, the “We, Women are Water” campaign took place in the framework of International Women´s Day (8th of March) and World Water Day (22nd of March), bringing together different organizations and funds that form part of the Global Alliance for Green and Gender Action (GAGGA)Continue reading “2019 “We, Women are Water” GAGGA Campaign”

Organization(s) Fondo Centroamericano de Mujeres, Fondo de Mujeres del Sur, Fondo Apthapi Jopuety, Fondo Acción Urgente América Latina, FRIDA, Fundación Tierra Viva, Fundo Socioambiental CASA, Mama Cash, Both ENDS, AIDA, RIFA, Utz Che’, Madre Selve, Fundación Plurales, CCIMCAT and Colectivo CASA. Region Latin America During the month of March, organizations in Latin America, part ofContinue reading “Video: GAGGA 2019 ‘We, Women are Water’ Campaign”

This resource shares the experiences of women and their organizations participating in the first phase of the project Mujeres diversas – Sembrado agua, cosechando vida (Diverse Women – Sowing Water, Harvesting Life), supported by GAGGA (through Both ENDS) and executed by the Centro de Capacitación e Investigación de la Mujer Campesinas de Tarija (CCIMCAT). In a contextContinue reading “Mujeres Diversas – Sembrando Agua, Cosechando Vida”

  Organization(s) Fondo Centroamericano de Mujeres, Fondo de Mujeres del Sur, Fondo Apthapi Jopuety, Fondo Acción Urgente América Latina, FRIDA, Fundación Tierra Viva, Fundo Socioambiental CASA, Mama Cash, Both ENDS, AIDA, RIFA, Utz Che’, Madre Selve, Fundación Plurales, CCIMCAT and Colectivo CASA.   Region : Latin America   During the month of March, organizations inContinue reading “Video: GAGGA 2019 ‘We, Women are Water’ Campaign”