COMPACT, social innovation for low-carbon construction


COMPACT is a social start-up for low-carbon and advocated towards governments, local authorities, construction using local materials. It addresses the booming use of GHG emitting concrete in Senegal. The founders, a female engineer, and a female entrepreneur, Earth Bricks (C.S.E.B.) that reduce cement use by 30 to 50%. They raised the technical skills of 20… Read More


Fostering women’s leadership in climate resilient agriculture


Community Water Alliance supports climate vulnerable creating financial savings and credit cooperatives as women farmers in Buhera, Zimbabwe, to adapt to well as access to the local markets. By providing solar- extreme temperatures and droughts through access powered water pumps and irrigation systems and to irrigation and resilient agricultural practices. The training female smallholder farmers… Read More



Zág women defending earth and climate


The Zág Institute acts to save the endemic Araucaria tree, known as Zág, and preserve the Laklãnõ-Xokleng traditional knowledge in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. The project fosters Indigenous Women’s central role in restoring ancestral practices for biodiversity protection by giving them a coordinating role in conducting reforestation programs. They focus on educating youth, reintroducing native… Read More


Tajik mountain women leading the solar energy just transition


In the remote Yagnob Valley of Tajikistan, The Little Earth supports mountain-dwelling women to break isolation and implement a just energy transition. 40 women from 11 villages, who rely on kerosene and firewood, have been trained to use and maintain solar devices and resource efficient technologies. This shift reduces environmental degradation in fragile ecosystems and… Read More