Every Action a Catalyst: GAGGA’s Invitation to Fund Forward
After a decade of channeling resources to women-led climate action on the frontlines, the Global Alliance for Green and Gender Action (GAGGA) launches Fund Forward — a call to multiply impact across geographies and generations where it’s most needed.
What if a single act of giving could ripple across communities, ecosystems, and generations – transforming not just today’s realities, but tomorrow’s possibilities?
After a decade of channeling resources to women-led climate action on the frontlines, the Global Alliance for Green and Gender Action (GAGGA) is launching Fund Forward — its first-ever fundraising campaign and a bold call to multiply impact where it’s needed most.
This moment is not accidental. As GAGGA marks its 10th anniversary, the urgency is undeniable. The climate crisis is accelerating – and so is the injustice at its core.
Women, girls, and trans, intersex, and non-binary people are among those most affected by climate change, yet remain the least resourced to respond. Despite their proven leadership, women-led organizations receive just 0.22% of climate-related official development assistance, and only 3% of philanthropic climate funding reaches women’s environmental activism.
The world isn’t just underfunding climate solutions – it’s underfunding the very people driving them.
A Decade of Infrastructure
Ten years ago, GAGGA was founded on the simple but radical idea that funding women-led climate action is the highest-leverage investment in the future of the planet.
Since 2016, GAGGA has channeled over €50 million to more than 2,590+ women-led community based organisations working on climate action across 60 countries. But money alone was never enough. Alongside funding, GAGGA has built the infrastructure — the networks, the knowledge systems, the advocacy platforms — that enables women, girls, and trans, intersex, and non-binary people to lead lasting change at every level, from community to global policy.
This infrastructure is what makes GAGGA a multiplier.
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€50 million channeled to
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2,590+ frontline climate partners across
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60 countries
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175+ cross-learning exchanges
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2,360+ advocacy initiatives supported globally
Introducing Fund Forward
Fund Forward is GAGGA’s invitation to funders, philanthropists, and institutions to join us in our next decade, and to see funding not as a one-to-one transaction, but as a multiplier. When you fund women-led, community-rooted climate action through GAGGA, your investment does not stop at one project. It catalyzes ripple effects:
→ One act of courage ignites a movement.
→ One restored ecosystem becomes the base of community resilience.
→ One moment of advocacy generates long-term policy change.
→ One grant creates infrastructure that communities own for generations.
Fund Forward is more than a campaign — it marks the start of a new era, where the organizations shaping the most effective climate solutions are resourced not marginally, but meaningfully and at scale.
Fund Forward builds on GAGGA’s core mission: channeling resources to the frontline, strengthening capacity, enabling collective learning and movement building across borders, and amplifying women’s leadership in global climate policy. The campaign’s goal is to shine a spotlight on this work, raising awareness of its urgency and catalyzing the broader action needed to get resources where they have the greatest impact.
What the Multiplier Looks Like in Practice
The multiplier is not a metaphor. It is something GAGGA partners have lived. GAGGA does more than move money — it builds the conditions for impact to scale.
One of the most powerful ways this happens is through peer-to-peer learning and knowledge exchange: connecting frontline actors across borders so they can share solutions, build solidarity, and coordinate advocacy.
STORY 1: CAMEROON, UGANDA, ZIMBABWE
One exchange. A permanent regional network. After connecting with women leaders from across the region to learn about Analog Forestry, participants in Cameroon applied shared learnings and established the Analog Forestry Promotion Association (AFOPA) to scale women-led ecosystem restoration.
STORY 2: NIGERIA & GHANA
One conversation. A new movement infrastructure. A cross-border exchange gave fisherwomen the skills to advocate collectively as rising seas threatened their livelihoods, and led to the formation of a dedicated women’s wing within the FishNet Alliance.
STORY 3: INDIA
One training. Community rights defended. Women trained through a GAGGA knowledge exchange became “barefoot ecologists”, documenting mining damage and biodiversity loss, generating the evidence needed to assert Forest Rights Act claims.
This is the multiplier at work — not isolated results, but a cascade of impact that builds power, scales solutions, and expands the boundaries of what’s possible.
The Urgency Has Never Been Greater
The climate crisis is not waiting. UNEP estimates developing countries will need USD 310–365 billion per year by 2035 for adaptation alone, yet total international public adaptation finance stood at just USD 26 billion in 2023. The gap is widening.
Yet global frameworks are beginning to catch up. The Paris Agreement, the Enhanced Lima Work Programme on Gender, and the Belém Gender Action Plan all affirm that gender-responsive, locally led climate action is not optional, but essential. Fund Forward makes the case that investing in women-led climate action is not just a moral imperative; it is a strategic one.
The infrastructure is built. The movements are ready. The evidence is clear. It is time to Fund Forward.
Fund Forward With Us
Join GAGGA in scaling collective action and multiplying climate impact. Partner with an ecosystem that has spent a decade building the infrastructure for gender-just climate solutions, and is ready for its next chapter.
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