Latest in GAGGA

Latest in GAGGA

Dive into the latest news and updates from GAGGA and learn about our global initiatives, call to actions, and milestones.

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August 22, 2021

Vacancy: Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning Officer

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”

December 13, 2020

Executive summary: GAGGA’s impact 2016-2019

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”

November 6, 2020

Women leading climate action

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”

November 5, 2020

In conversation with young feminists on climate justice

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”

August 25, 2020

2019 Annual Report

In 2019, GAGGA continued to support and accompany women environmental defenders and the local, national and international movements fighting for women’s rights and environmental justice. GAGGA collaborated with 20 national regional and global women’s and environmental justice funds, 44 NGOs and 418 mostly women-led grassroots groups in over 30 countries across Africa, Asia, Europe (Georgia)Continue reading “2019 Annual Report”

May 25, 2020

A message from our executive directors on COVID-19

“I think that this is a difficult situation for all of us; we are experiencing it from different contexts and situations and places, but it’s in these times that we give a new significance to the word ‘community’ and we claim our right to organize; to give each other a hug as sisters, and remindContinue reading “A message from our executive directors on COVID-19”

December 7, 2019

GAGGA at the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights and COP25

Different partners of the Global Alliance for Green and Gender Action (GAGGA) have been taking part in two important international advocacy spaces with the aim of bringing forward their voices, proposals and agendas in relation to women´s rights and environmental justice. This includes the 2019 United Nations (UN) Forum on Business and Human Rights, thatContinue reading “GAGGA at the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights and COP25”

November 27, 2019

GAGGA Newsletter #4: The Confluence of Women and Water

Across the globe, women are intensely involved in the provision, management, restoration and safeguarding of water resources. Based on their vast knowledge and understanding of the critical importance of clean and sufficient water, as well as their collective commitment to their communities, women are leading struggles, proposing and implementing sustainable solutions, and making their voicesContinue reading “GAGGA Newsletter #4: The Confluence of Women and Water”