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.