Applications Invited for Gender Just Climate Solutions Awards 2021

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About the Organization:

The Women and Gender Constituency (WGC) is one of the nine stakeholder groups of the 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. The goal of the WGC is to formalize the voice of the women’s and gender civil society organizations present and regularly active in UNFCCC processes, and to develop, streamline and advocate common positions.

Gender Just Climate Solutions Awards 2021

The Women & Gender Constituency invites you to participate in the 2021 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.

Areas:

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

• Results can be shared, spread & scaled up (replicable elsewhere, not just benefiting one individual)
• Shows interlinkages to cross-cutting issues, such as (including, but not restricted to) peace-building, natural resources management, food security and/or health, water and sanitation

Types of Projects:

Winning initiatives 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.)

Award:

• Selection & Award: Initiatives will be reviewed by an international jury with members of the Women and Gender Constituency. Two tiers of ‘Winners’ will be selected:
• Three top ‘Award Winners’ will be identified, one per project type. These three winners will each receive a Seed Grant of 2000 Euros; travel for one representative to attend the Awards Ceremony held at COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland this November 2021 (depending on COVID-19); and mentorship activities from the members of the Women and Gender Constituency.
• The ‘Award Winners’ are invited to a capacity building workshop during COP26 with the previous award winners of the Gender Just Climate Solutions 2015-2019. The workshop is organized together with Climate Technology Centre & Network (CTCN) and it includes 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:

• All types of activist, grassroots and women-led organizations and groups working on issues related to climate change from all over the world are encouraged to apply.
• Only non-governmental initiatives are eligible (local or national government initiatives cannot be considered).
• The activity/initiative should either already have been completed or should be in current operation. The initiative must fit within one of the 3 award types of projects.

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