Women farmers’ rights and control over productive resources to fight hunger

Food Rights Alliance established sustainable, gender-responsive farm plans to bolster women farmers’ rights and resilience in the Teso sub-region of Uganda. They fostered civic awareness on women’s land rights and raised small farmers’ capacities on ecological, climate adaptive agriculture practices to drive transformations. The program focused on creating high nutrition farming models for food sovereignty,… Read More

Women’s center in Nepal promotes holistic resilient livelihoods model

Since 2013, Kopila Valley Women’s Center has uplifted 1,280 rural women towards financial autonomy and climate adaptation in the Karnali region through a holistic, ecological and rights-based model. The centre offers technical skills training in eco-friendly building techniques, electricity and organic farming, market access and financial literacy education, self-confidence and mental-health counselling, gender equality and… Read More

Sliced food: women farmers boost food security and climate resilience

This entrepreneurial initiative started with the goal to reduce food waste and empower 1,500 small scale women farmers while providing affordable food options to Waruku, Mathare, and Kibera slum dwellers in Nairobi, Kenya. Inua Damsite community-based enterprise buys fresh farm products that are deselected by wholesalers, slices them into cooking-sized portions, applies preservation or processing… Read More

Jambo Jirani: empowering Maasai women and girls for climate adaptation

Safe Dada Foundation works with Maasai communities, learning and understanding their culture, to support them in adapting to climate change while promoting women’s human rights. The Jambo Jirani – Hello Neighbour-project assists girls who dropped out of school due to patriarchal discrimination, like gender-based violence, limited access to menstrual hygiene products, and domestic care burden…. Read More

Marginalised groups act for agroecology in Luuka, Uganda

Luuka District is known for its large emitting and polluting sugarcane plantations. The Environmental Conservation – Sustainable Agriculture (EC-SA) project empowers teenage mothers, youth, women and people with disabilities from low socioeconomic and educational background to implement climate solutions. Over 250 participants were trained on organic farming and agroforestry, water conservation techniques and entrepreneurship skills…. Read More

Advancing the labor rights of women cotton pickers in Pakistan

Description of the project: The Sindh Community Foundation uses a Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR) approach to support the demands of women agriculture workers – particularly cotton pickers – for better working conditions and health services in response to rising temperatures. Located in the Matiāri District of Pakistan, the foundation developed an innovative advocacy strategy… Read More

Gender-transformative urban development model in Lima

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

La Crisálida: a miraculous utopia to generate alternative, resilient social models

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

Grassroots women-led climate information learning centre

Description of the project: In the arid rangelands of Kajiado County, Kenya, the Rural Women Network supports locally led initiatives with agro-pastoral communities to conduct climate adaptive agriculture for resilient livelihoods. A climate information learning centre was established after consulting 40 local group leaders. Over 600 Maasai women organized in self-help groups have been trained… Read More

“Emthonjeni” – Come to the wellspring: African girls bringing change in rural communities

Description of the project: The Women’s Leadership and Training Programme addresses the needs of traditional, historically disempowered communities in rural South Africa. They foster a holistic development of girls around issues of climate change, water conservation and biodiversity loss, while integrating a strategic analysis of how patriarchy influences their development, cultural identity and health. 275… Read More

Gender equality for a better life in the Gran Chaco Americano

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

Menstruation is not a luxury

Description of the project: In North Macedonia, 90% of girls in rural areas and 75% in cities miss school 2–5 days/month due to excessive cost of menstruation products and inadequate sanitation facilities. To tackle menstrual poverty, JHR Skopje trained 5,000 women from rural poor communities to create their social enterprise to manufacture and sell environmentally… Read More

Equal mobility

Description of the project: Awareness of gender-specific needs in the field of mobility has been growing for several decades, yet knowledge on the subject has largely remained theoretical. To fill this gap, the Equal Mobility project puts the spotlight on gender and socially just mobility initiatives in Germany. They show how the gender dimension can… Read More

Women-led mangrove reforestation in Sunderbans, India

Description of the project: Frequent cyclones in the Indian state of West Bengal damage mangroves, destroy agricultural land and affect soil fertility. In this context, inland and mangrove afforestation, as well as efforts to increase community resilience are crucial. This project, carried out by indigenous women, aims to train beneficiaries in the preparation of seedlings… Read More

Women in urban slums act for climate resilience and Covid-19 recovery in Kenya

Description of the project: This project brings useful responses to specific gendered impacts of the COVID pandemic, which left many women in urban slums without a job while increasing their household responsibilities. AWAK trained 700 urban women in slums to convert former domestic dumping sites into vegetable gardens, using organic compost to enrich the soil… Read More

Cool roofs for climate resilience and women’s economic empowerment in urban centers of India

Description of the project: For urban poor, home is also a workplace, especially for women in Indian cities. Rising temperatures and heatwaves interfere with productivity, subsistence and home comfort. Through this project, Mahila Housing Trust provided cool roofing solutions to lower indoor temperature and enhance well-being. Pro-poor solutions in roofing, walling and housing-ventilation were devised,… Read More

Women protect forest biodiversity and resilience through indigenous knowledge

Description of the project: PIFEVA -Pilier aux Femmes Vulnérables Actives, focuses on documenting and revitalizing the traditional knowledge held by indigineous communities to protect forest biodiversity in the Mwenga territory of the DRC. The project strengthened the capacities of 60 indigenous women and 60 young people in forest communities, to enhance the climate resilience of… Read More

Energy ambassadors challenge gender norms in STEM and advance Jordan’s energy transition

Description of the project: The SEED project implements a holistic and gender-responsive approach to energy transition in Jordan, providing technical training to women and empowering local communities to adapt to climate change and advocate for climate solutions. Women energy ambassadors learn to install solar water heaters and photovoltaic systems, thereby challenging gender-stereotypes in the male-dominated… Read More