GAGGA's Call to Action for COP27: Climate finance is only effective when it is gender just
This year GAGGA has developed a Call to Action that provides concrete recommendations to policy makers and government officials from UNFCCC developed country Parties, to enhance and ensure gender-just climate finance.
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, high-risk, market-based financial mechanisms to generate profit.
True innovation is addressing the root causes of climate injustice through bottom-up approaches that centre gender equality and address the complexities of intersecting challenges, and scaling up the proven and context-specific solutions of communities worldwide. These rights-based, people-centred and local approaches enable communities and marginalised groups to build long-term capacities to respond to climate change and lead to effective and lasting transformation.
Across the world, women's rights groups and civil society at large are calling for climate finance to be accessible, inclusive and gender just.
Gender just climate finance means that:
- Women in all their diversity have access to climate finance, especially those from marginalised groups (indigenous, rural, youth) that are most impacted by climate change and are leading climate action
- They have decision-making power in the allocation of climate finance.
- Climate finance projects actively challenge and address gender inequalities while promoting and protecting human rights and achieving climate impact
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Global Alliance for Green and Gender Action (GAGGA)
GAGGA rallies the collective power of the women's rights and environmental justice movements to realize a world where women can and do access…
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Finance for agroecology
The lion's share of public budgets for climate, agriculture and development still goes to conventional agroindustrial projects that contribute to the current climate, food and biodiversity crises. Both ENDS and our partners are calling for a transition to agroecological practices that are people- and…
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Event / 3 November 2021, 13:15 - 14:30
UNFCCC COP 26 side event 'Gender-just climate finance: from barriers to actionable solutions'
With gender-responsiveness a work in progress, current climate funds are hardly accessible for women-led community based organizations. While these groups lack access to finance and decision-making, they already lead bold holistic gender-just climate solutions and initiatives worth funding support…
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Event / 6 March 2018, 15:00 - 16:30
Women's Rights & Climate Finance Webinar: getting the money to the people
Join us for the third session of this five-part series on women's rights and climate finance, aimed at building knowledge and power to ensure finance…
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External link / 1 August 2018
Briefing paper: Gender and Climate Change
This paper by Prakriti Resources Center (Nepal) sheds light on the gender and climate change nexus, gender mainstreaming as a tool to address…
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Publication / 4 November 2022
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Publication / 15 March 2023
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Publication / 2 November 2021
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Video / 28 August 2018
Webinar series: women’s rights and climate finance, #5
The fifth session of our five part series on women's rights and climate finance, Experiences and Perspectives of Women Engaging in Climate Finance, shared the insights of three activists who have been serving as GCF Monitors as part of the "Women Demand 'Gender-Just' Climate Finance" initiative. They spoke about their processes of learning about climate finance and connecting with others to monitor climate finance in their communities and…
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Video / 7 March 2018
Webinar series: women’s rights and climate finance, #3
The third session of our five part series on women's rights and climate finance, Getting the Money to the People: GCF Accreditation and Enhanced Direct Action, focused on accessing the Green Climate Fund through working with stakeholders at the country level (engaging with the National Designated…
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Video / 1 February 2018
Webinar series: women’s rights and climate finance, #2
The second session of our five part series on women's rights and climate finance, Gender Mainstreaming in Climate Finance Mechanisms, provided an overview of how gender equality has been mainstreamed into global climate finance mechanisms, including a deep dive on gender considerations…
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External link / 19 June 2020
Nepalese women lead local advocacy on climate change (Annual Report 2019)
In 2019, Karambot Women's Agriculture Group (Nepal) convinced their municipality to fund its proposed irrigation plan, after they followed a planning…
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News / 14 December 2018
Raju Pandit Chettri meets Minister Kaag: finance for women-led local climate action is critical!
During the 24th Conference of the Parties (COP24) of the UNFCCC taking place in Katowice, Both ENDS partner Raju Pandit Chettri – director of Prakriti Resources Centre in Nepal - was one of the selected Southern leaders to meet with the Dutch Minister of Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade…
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Publication / 4 November 2022
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News / 31 March 2022
Well-deserved recognition for small grants funds!
We are exited about the news that Ms MacKenzie Scott decided to entrust substantial funding to a wide range of small grants funds from Both ENDS' partner networks*. These small grants funds are unique as they are set up and led by people, often activists themselves, from the country or region in which the fund is based. Most mainstream conventional funders admit they have difficulties reaching community based organisations and grassroots groups themselves. Small grants funds know better than anyone how to reach local communities, who to support and what kind of financial as well as non-financial support is most needed. Thus, they bridge a wide funding gap. Both ENDS applauds this recognition of the important role of these funds…
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Video / 14 June 2018
Webinar series: women’s rights and climate finance, #4
The fourth webinar of a five part series on women's rights and climate finance: Strategies for Organizing to Influence, Monitor, and Track Climate Finance (from Global to Local), focused on strategies to engage with various actors to both facilitate and advocate for the meaningful inclusion of the perspectives and experiences of women's groups, affected communities, and other civil society stakeholders in the design and implementation of…
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Video / 14 December 2017
Webinar series: women’s rights and climate finance, #1
This Introduction to Climate Finance is the first of a five part series on women's rights and climate finance, aiming to build knowledge and power to ensure finance flows are benefiting local women's groups, responding to community needs and respecting human rights. This session will outline the…
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News / 8 March 2021
GAGGA launches “We, Women are Water” campaign 2021
On International Women's Day (March 8th) the Global Alliance for Green and Gender Action (GAGGA) will launch the "We, Women are Water"…
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Event / 11 November 2022, 15:00 - 16:30
Local perspectives to make gender-just climate finance a reality
UNFCCC-COP side event
In this session hosted by NTFP-EP and the Global Alliance for Green and Gender Action (GAGGA), we will discuss the crucial steps to be taken to make…
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Event / 10 May 2016, 13:30 - 15:15
Adaptation Futures, session 'Making Climate Finance Accessible to Women'
Both ENDS, MamaCash and FCAM are proud to contribute to the 'Adaptation Futures 2016- conference'.
Adaptation Futures is the biennial conference of the Global Programme of Research on Climate Change Vulnerability, Impacts and Adaptation (PROVIA). In 2016 the European Commission and the Government of the Netherlands co-host the fourth edition. Adaptation Futures 2016 is where scholars, practitioners, policymakers and business people from all around the world go to connect, learn and inspire. It highlights adaptation practices and…