GENDER JUST CLIMATE SOLUTIONS AWARDS 2021

GENDER JUST CLIMATE SOLUTIONS AWARDS 2021

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: 31^ST JULY 2021

HOST: Women and Gender Constituency

Application is open for participation in the 2021 edition of Gender Just Climate Solutions Award

The Women & Gender Constituency (WGC) is inviting all activists, grassroots, and women-led organizations and groups across the globe that are working on issues related to climate change to participate in the 2021 edition of Gender-Just Climate Solutions Awards.

The Women and Gender Constituency (WGC) is one of the nine stakeholder groups of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Established in 2009, the WGC now consists of 33 women’s and environmental civil society organizations, who are working to ensure that women’s voices and their rights are embedded in all processes and results of the UNFCCC framework, for a sustainable and just future, so that gender equality and women’s human rights are central to the ongoing discussions.

In 2015, the WGC launched its first ‘Gender-Just Climate Solutions’ Awards.

These awards aim to showcase real solutions for a more just, equal and healthy planet.

Previous initiatives recognized have included women-owned and operated energy cooperatives in Germany, female entrepreneurial “energy shop” initiatives in Mozambique and human rights-based relocation planning in the Carteret Islands.

Project types

Outstanding initiatives that are women-centric are showcased across three different project types:

Non-technical climate solutions with a women or gender perspective (e.g. in area of efficiency, consumption changes, resilience and capacity building etc.
Technical climate solutions with a women or gender perspective (e.g. in area of renewables, energy or adaptation technologies etc.)
Transformational climate initiatives with a women or gender perspective (e.g. addressing governance, institutional / societal change etc.)

Criteria: Initiatives will be weighed against the following criteria aimed to measure contributions to gender equality, resilience and sustainability.

Winning projects will ideally work across all of the key result areas, though the organizers note that not all projects will be in a position / stage to meet each and every criteria.

Due to existing inequalities and a lack of available resources globally, priority will be given to women-led initiatives, recognizing that programmes do not necessarily need to be women-led to be gender just.

Result Area 1: Women’s rights and gender equality

Provides equal access to benefits for women, men and youth
Aims to alleviate and/or does not add additional burden to women’s workload (such as via additional natural resource management or care responsibilities without compensation)
Empowers women through better mobility/accessibility, enhanced livelihood security, enhanced food security, improved health, access to safe water, etc. (as many benefits as possible)
Promotes women’s democratic rights and participation by ensuring decision making by local women, men, women’s groups, cooperatives and communities

Result Area 2: Climate Resilience

Locally led and/or locally driven (decentralised and appropriate)
Ensures self-sufficiency & a low input of resources (safe, affordable and sustainable)
Contributes to climate change mitigation, emissions reduction and/or climate adaptation (the project is sustainable)

Result Area 3: Scaling-up and transfer
1. Results can be shared, spread & scaled up (replicable elsewhere, not just benefiting one individual)

2. Shows inter-linkages to cross-cutting issues, such as (including, but not restricted to) peace-building, natural resources management, food security and/or health, water and sanitation.

Prize

Three top ‘Award Winners’ will be identified, one per project type. Each of the three winners will receive

Seed funding of 2000 Euros;
A chance to attend the Awards Ceremony held at COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland in November 2021
Mentorship activities from the members of the Women and Gender Constituency
Invitation to a capacity building workshop during COP26 which will include training to up-scale their solutions, share their experience and expertise with each other, as well as to network.

Up to 30 additional ‘Runners-Up’ will be featured in a full-color publication which will be showcased in a high-level international awards ceremony at COP26, as well as be highlighted on the WGC website

Eligibility Criteria

The Gender-Just Climate Solutions is free and open to all applicants solving the challenges of climate change across the world.

Only non-governmental initiatives are qualified (local or national government initiatives will not be considered).
Solutions must have been developed or should be in current operation. The initiative must fit within one of the 3 award types of projects.