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
Bolivia’s Madidi National Park is part of the Amazon rainforest ecosystem and one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots. Since 2014 Practical Action has worked with indigenous communities living in the buffer zone around the Madidi park. Together with Indigenous People’s councils of the Tacana Nation, Practical Action has been working to strengthen community-based forest monitoring… Read More
Instituto Limpa Brasil empowers citizens in fostering waste management and recycling in 1,200 cities across Brazil. Over 650,000 volunteers are engaged in the #EuCuidoDoMeuQuadrado program, supporting an interactive map to alert on irregular garbage spots, as well as inform on waste disposal ecopoints and circular economy cooperatives. 1,500 community leaders working with 96 ecopoints contribute… Read More
Filha do Sol recognizes and supports women’s leadership in climate action. This women-led CSO created the Women’s Climate School, offe- ring two vocational programs with technical skills focused on community- led climate projects with seed funding. The school also selects local leaders from frontline communities to be trained in climate policy and leadership, join a… Read More
The Aya Hatariy Foundation promotes intercultural dialogue, reha- bilitates native gastronomy and supports food sovereignty via a yearly trade fair and the distribution of healthy food baskets at fair prices. Since 2014, the Fruits of Our Earth Fair has connected over 50 Kichwa Indigenous farming communities with citizens of Carcelén, a northern suburb of Quito,… Read More
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… Read More
Description of the project: In the underprivileged district “La Ensenada de Chillon” in the north of Lima, women from the neighbourhood trained as bricklayers have built earth walls along the hillside to develop community-based urban gardens. Grey water from the houses is used for irrigation. The terracing – benefiting more than 40,000 residents – has… Read More
Description of the project: La Crisálida Comuna is a socio-productive project led by women who thrive to generate new alternatives for living, interacting, producing, and consuming, built on a feminist, educative and environmental approach. Involving around 300 women farmers, they carry out agroecological community gardening to grow organic vegetables transformed in sauces and pickles; they… Read More
Description of the project: Using a gender and intersectional lens, the collective of indigenous women of the Tri-national Chaco promotes inclusive, fair, and healthy territories for young people, women, and the elderly in all their diversity. They recognize and value differences so that women can fully exercise their rights and connect them with the defense… Read More
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… Read More
Description of the project: Sierra de las Minas is an important water catchment and biosphere reserve in Guatemala, confronted with extractive mining. The “Centro de Reflexiones” strengthens the capacities and knowledge of women and men from communities in resistance. Through a model called “Rakun Akal” (sons and daughters of the Earth), political training workshops… Read More
Description of the project: The project is carried out in the indigenous Ecuadorian community of Eperara de Santa Rosa. Women’s groups organised themselves to reclaim their ancestral medicine culture, while strengthening their climate resilience. Based on a collective decision in favor of the community’s health, they decided to take their own actions in response to… Read More
Description of the project: Latinas for Climate is an international network of young Latin American feminists that raises awareness about the climate emergency from a gender, human rights and cultural perspective. This project educates girls and young women in the region on understanding climate issues by supporting them in creating virtual content, empowering themselves through… Read More
Description of the project: ‘Defensoras Ambianales’ empowers women environmental rights defenders from indigenous peoples and local groups in Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay, with a gender justice perspective. A network of over 1,200 women has been built, and an innovative mobile phone application (PLAC) was launched to inform, connect, protect and communicate efficiently. This supports the… Read More
Description of the project: Todos Juntos works since 2016 with indigenous women in Guatemala to improve their nutrition and environment. Supported by university researchers, the association trained 100 women in 4 communities, to set up mealworm farms that ensure an affordable and sustainable source of protein. Rural women are empowered as “ambassadors” of mealworm farming… Read More
Description of the project: Casa Grata is a decentralised and affordable youth-led solution that brings solar energy to dispersed and hard-to-reach rural households. The system includes a solar panel, light bulbs, a battery and a solar charge controller. This solution allows electronic devices to be charged and light bulbs to be plugged in, reducing school… Read More
Description of the Project: Started in 2012, this initiative shows the way for a sustainable and gender-responsive city, based on formalizing the activities of 26 women waste pickers as recyclers in Suba, in the south suburbs of Bogota. On this basis, ENDA involved 9 community organisations -3520 citizens- to elaborate a holistic urban concept, including… Read More
Project Desciption: In rural areas of Yucatán, the main economic activity is agriculture, a sector where women account for 70% of the workforce. They perform their daily work without any basic training, technology, financing and without the rights over the land they cultivate. Climate change has made this problem even worse, making it more difficult… Read More
Description of the project: FUNDAECO breaks traditional cultural barriers to ensure the SRH rights of adolescent girls in more than 100 isolated Mayan and Q’echqi communities of Guatemala, as fundamental for their involvement in forest conservation. 22 health clinics, established in Protected Areas of Izabal, have provided regular care and counseling to 50,000 patients (2/3… Read More
Desription of project: The Ikoots, Mixe, Mixteca and Zapoteca indigenous communities of Oaxaca State suffer from marginalization. Since 2011, EECO has been working with women in 28 communities to improve their climate resilience, strengthening their participation in local and State policy processes and their leadership on adaptation and mitigation actions. Community centers for refugees and… Read More