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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 AnnexContinue reading “Call to Action for Gender-Just Climate Finance”

The Urgent Action Fund-Africa (UAF-Africa) launched its report “Womn** and water in Africa: An overview of water justice struggles” as part of a year-long campaign on water availability for womn in Africa. The report responds to the following questions: what are the root causes of water scarcity? What are the approaches employed by organizations toContinue reading “Report | Womn and water in Africa: An overview of water justice struggles”

The worldwide climate crisis, loss of biodiversity and continuing gender inequality are intrinsically linked. Solving the climate and biodiversity crises and achieving gender equality must go hand in hand and everyone needs to be involved. Women and girls constitute almost half of the world’s population, but their voices are not sufficiently heard in biodiversity andContinue reading “Report | Intrinsically linked: gender equality, climate and biodiversity”

In their efforts to defend their land, territories and natural resources, women and girl environmental defenders* (WGEDs) around the world are experiencing diverse forms of structural violence. The violence they experience ranges from the physical to the spiritual. From dislocation and dispossession, to harassment and defamation. From sexual and domestic violence to kidnapping and murder.Continue reading “Report | Structural violence: Learning from women and girl environmental defenders”

Women play a key role in nature conservation, yet they often lack the inputs, technologies, training and extension services, and various enablers and linkages that can enhance the effectiveness of their efforts. Evidence indicates that gender-inclusive and gender-sensitive conservation practices have far-reaching multiplier impacts. This report from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)Continue reading “Report | Critical approaches to gender in mountain ecosystems”

How does agricultural extractivism affect ecosystems, communities, and women specifically? What are women defenders and their communities doing to guarantee that life is sustainable and stop the destruction of their territories? These are some of the guiding questions behind the collaborative report “Women within Contexts of Agricultural Extractivism: Voices of Women Land Defenders in CentralContinue reading “Women within the Context of Agricultural Extractivism: Voices of Women Land Defenders in Central America”

The key role of women in climate action and the relationship between achieving gender equality and climate outcomes is widely recognised and documented. Yet the effectiveness of climate finance is often reduced to the measurement of tonnes of carbon mitigated and the amount of private sector finance leveraged, whereas innovation is reduced to creating top-down,Continue reading “Climate finance is only effective when it is gender just. Read our Call to Action for COP27”

This publication is a collaboration between eight different partners from Latin America, Africa, Asia and Europe that shows how agro-ecological practices on the ground contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris objectives and why it is important that these types of practices are more supported To access the publication and case studies, please clickContinue reading “Unlocking Public Finance for Agroecology: Catalysing the potential of agriculture in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals”

This participatory diagnostic is the result of a collective effort to portray the experiences and learnings of environmental defenders in 13 towns in Bolivia and Paraguay, up until March 2019. These environmental defenders, as community researchers, show us the struggles they face in their territories but also present alternatives and solutions from their experiences asContinue reading “Report: The Preservation of Life”

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 aContinue reading “Mujeres Diversas – Sembrando Agua, Cosechando Vida”