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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”

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”

“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”

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”