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Story highlights Rural communities in Nicaragua are facing food and water insecurity as climate change causes more powerful and destructive storms, and prolonged drought. La Cuculmeca, a partner of GAGGA’s lead organization FCAM, is providing a platform for local women and community voices to inform and influence local, national and international level actors on climateContinue reading “From local action to national advocacy, women in Nicaragua build climate resilience”

350.org joins the GAGGA network as a strategic ally that is working to end the age of fossil fuels and build a world of community-led renewable energy for all. 350.org’s global campaigns director, Aggy Hall, spoke to us about how the organization’s Just Recovery work can support GAGGA’s new strategies and the importance of anContinue reading “A conversation with 350.org”

The Women’s Environment and Development Organization, or WEDO, joins the GAGGA network as a strategic ally and a global advocacy organization that has focused on women’s rights and environmental justice for over 30 years. WEDO’s director, Bridget Burns, spoke to us about the strengths that their organization brings to the network and how they’re excitedContinue reading “A conversation with WEDO”

Globally, women and girl environmental defenders (WGEDs) play a significant role in combating environmental injustice and the climate crisis; their work is crucial to defending land, territories, bodies of water, and critical ecosystems. However, they do so at great risk to their lives and well-being, and that of their communities. According to a recent reportContinue reading “Report key findings: Women environmental defenders on structural violence”

BACKGROUND The Global Alliance for Green and Gender Action (GAGGA) is a vibrant and diverse network, established in 2016, involving women’s funds, environmental justice funds, NGOs, and women-led community-based organisations, joining forces to strengthen the nexus of women’s rights, climate, and environmental justice at local, national, and regional levels in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, Latin America, Europe and globally. GAGGA works towards enhancingContinue reading “Vacancy: Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning Officer”

2021

Between January and October 2020, GAGGA conducted a final external evaluation to assess its impact, key outcomes and performance in its first four years of implementation. Below are some of the key findings: 74.5 percent of GAGGA’s total budget was directly allocated to support grassroots groups, funds and NGOs working on women’s rights and environmentalContinue reading “Executive summary: GAGGA’s impact 2016-2019”

The climate crisis is a global challenge that demands transformational change; structural shifts in the predominant economic system based on extraction and unlimited growth, towards a society that prioritizes the planet and all its people. To get there and achieve genuine transformation, we need to bring together the power of people and their movements. SinceContinue reading “Women leading climate action”

Young women across Africa, Asia and Latin America are playing a bold role in calling for urgent climate action from governments and corporations, and promoting locally-based approaches to climate issues. However, the part they play within global movements is still often invisible or unrecognized. Within our network, we’ve clearly seen how the challenges of climateContinue reading “In conversation with young feminists on climate justice”