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Women for Climate Justice in Colombia

Barranquilla+20 Foundation

Honoree

Representative Name: Xiomara Acevedo Navarro

Year: 2022

Country:

Colombia

Topics:

Capacity-BuildingCommunity EducationDecision MakingGovernance

Region:

Latin America and the Caribbean

Description of the project:

Women for Climate Justice empowered 15 women leaders from environmental organizations throughout Colombia, including from Afro-descendant and indigenous communities, to conduct climate justice advocacy focusing on gender equality. Baranquilla+20 designed and facilitated an online training course with of 9 modules enabling the participants to build different advocacy strategies for gender and climate justice in local, intersectoral and national spheres. The programme culminated a 3-day face-to-face Women’s Summit for Climate Justice in Bogota, creating an interactive space for exchange and network-building. Baranquillas+20 estimates that the Women for Climate Justice project indirectly impacted around 10,000 Colombians.

Climate impact

  • Women’s Summit for Climate Justice: a first of its kind
    climate policy event in Colombia.
  • Policy paper, dialogues with other feminist groups in LAC, strengthened the recognition of women’s climate action.
  • Strengthens awareness raising and capacity building on
    climate – 9 online modules, active network.

Gender impact

  • Strengthens women’s participation in climate policy
    processes in Colombia, providing relevant tools to build
    advocacy strategies.
  • Contributes to the integration of gender equality in
    environmental organizations’ and collective movements’
    actions for climate justice.
  • Fosters women’s education on gender and climate justice.

Scalability / replicability

  • Collaborating with the UNFCCC Women and Gender
    Constituency, to enhance technical capacities and skills
    in digital communication and print media.
  • The training’s methodologies and curriculum are open
    source and entirely replicable.
  • Promotes and strengthens networking, and collaborative
    work on climate advocacy and leadership.
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