Mama Cash is proud to share The climate crisis: Women’s Funds in GAGGA, a new series of six briefs for funders. Women’s funds supported by the Global Alliance for Green and Gender Action (GAGGA), of which Mama Cash is a member, are developing critical insights around women’s rights and environmental justice in the local contexts where they work.
There is growing recognition of the importance of women-led climate solutions. Women and girls, especially in the Global South, are disproportionately affected by climate change, and they are also the people least responsible for the environmental damage which causes changing climates. Women and girls also have local knowledge and solutions.
As part of GAGGA, women’s funds are in a strategic position to get money to these local feminist environmental activists. Through their funding to local activists, women’s funds are ensuring that women’s local climate solutions are embraced and implemented.
Mama Cash is pleased to contribute to building the knowledge base that funders, activists and others can draw on, and in particular to lift up the work of women’s funds around the world who are funding local, grassroots solutions.
Read this series of briefs to learn more about how women’s funds are strengthening environmental justice work and how funders can move resources to support this work, with examples from GAGGA-funded work in Bolivia, Kenya, Mexico, Mongolia, Nepal, and Paraguay.
Brief #1: Why the environment is a women’s rights issue
Climate change is not gender neutral. Gender equality and women’s rights must be at the heart of climate justice efforts. When women, girls, and trans and intersex people across the world fight for their rights, this includes the right to water, food, and a healthy environment.
Read Brief #1: Why the environment is a women’s rights issue
Brief #2: How Women’s Funds strengthen environmental justice
Women’s Funds are in a distinctive and strategic position to get money to the ground, especially to women otherwise overlooked. They are addressing both the climate crisis and women’s rights around the world.
Read Brief #2: How Women’s Funds strengthen environmental justice
Brief #3: Women’s Funds in action: Examples from practice
Women’s Funds supported by the Global Alliance for Green and Gender Action (GAGGA) are developing critical insights around women’s rights and environmental justice in the specific contexts in which they work.
Read Brief #3: Women’s Funds in action: Examples from practice
Brief #4: How funders can move resources
Funders can move more resources to women’s movements fighting for climate justice. Recent in-depth interviews with Women’s Funds surface ideas to help donors expand and deepen their environmental funding strategies.
Read Brief #4: How funders can move resources
Brief #5: Women’s Funds in action: Indigenous women lead the way in Paraguay
Indigenous women are protecting natural resources and their way of life. Extractive industries and industrial agriculture pose a threat to Indigenous peoples around the world. Women in Paraguay are fighting back.
Read Brief #5: Women’s Funds in action: Indigenous women lead the way in Paraguay
Brief 6#: Women’s Funds in action: Women strategise across movements in Kenya
Extractive industries and industrial development pose a threat to ecosystems around the world. In Kenya, women are fighting back. They are coming together to advocate across multiple levels of government – protecting their lives and livelihoods by protecting their local environments.
Read Brief 6#: Women’s Funds in action: Women strategise across movements in Kenya
This series of briefs is based on data collected before COVID-19, which is only exacerbating inequalities for women, girls, and trans and intersex people. In the midst of the pandemic, global anti-racism uprisings, and the climate crisis, Women’s Funds supported by the Global Alliance for Green and Gender Action (GAGGA) continue to take care of each other and fight injustice, whatever the circumstances.