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WOMER – Women researching gender and climate evidence

WOMER

Honoree

Representative Name: Merlyn Hurtado

Year: 2023

Country:

ColumbiaFrance

Topics:

Capacity-BuildingCommunity Education

Region:

Latin America and the Caribbean

About

This citizen science project empowers Indigenous women from the Pueblo Pastos in Colombia to lead climate research. Thanks to a web app, Indigenous women become frontline researchers and gather critical gender and climate evidence, addressing the data gap on this nexus. Collaborating with Indigenous women’s organizations in Colombia, WOMER equipped 23 young women leaders with digital tools, high-quality methodologies, and skills to collect, analyze, and use data from their territories. They built a comprehensive repository and created 33 indicators to guide gender-responsive climate policies.

Climate impact

  • 33 gender-related climate indicators aligned with SDGs can guide locally adapted and just climate action.
  • Strengthens Indigenous women’s resilience to climate impacts through active engagement in data analysis.

Gender impact

  • Builds women’s capacities to gather gender-disaggregated data, fostering equal participation for equitable policies.
  • Empowered 23 young indigenous women with high quality research methodologies and digital tools.

Scalability/replicability

  • The digital tools are open source and can be used without internet connection.
  • Indigenous communities have ownership and sovereignty over the data.
  • A collaborative research approach with UNITAR and CERN establishes decolonial values and self-determination.
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