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The Women & Gender Constituency invites you to enter the Gender Just Climate Solutions 2022 Awards!

The Women and Gender Constituency (WGC) is one of the nine stakeholder groups of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Created in 2009, the WGC is now made up of 33 women's and environmental civil society organisations, working to ensure that women's voices and rights are integrated into all processes and outcomes of the UNFCCC framework for a sustainable and just future, so that gender equality and women's human rights are at the heart of the ongoing discussion.

In 2015, the WGC launched its first Gender-Just Climate Solutions Awards. These awards aim to showcase real solutions for a fairer, more equitable and healthier planet. Previous initiatives recognised include women-owned and operated energy cooperatives in Germany, enterprising 'energy shop' initiatives in Mozambique and human rights-based resettlement planning in the Carteret Islands.

The Gender-Just Climate Solutions Awards aim to showcase real solutions for a fairer, more equitable and healthier planet.

Zones

• Result area 1: Women's rights and gender equality
  • Provides equal access to benefits for women, men and young people
  • Aims to alleviate and/or does not add to women's workload (e.g. through additional management of natural resources or uncompensated care responsibilities)
  • Empower women through improved mobility/accessibility, livelihood security, food security, health, access to clean water, etc. (as many benefits as possible)
  • Promote women's democratic rights and participation by guaranteeing decision-making by women, men, women's groups, cooperatives and local communities
• Result Domain 2: Climate resilience
  • Locally managed and/or locally driven (decentralised and appropriate)
  • Ensures self-sufficiency and low resource input (safe, affordable and sustainable)
  • Contributes to mitigating climate change, reducing emissions and/or adapting to the climate (the project is sustainable)
• Result Area 3: Scale-up and transfer
  • The results can be shared, disseminated and scaled up (replicable elsewhere, not just for the benefit of one individual).
  • Demonstrates links with cross-cutting issues such as (including but not limited to) peacebuilding, natural resource management, food security and/or health, water and sanitation

Price details Gender Just Climate Prize

The initiatives will be examined by an international jury made up of members of the Women and Gender Constituency. Two levels of "winners" will be selected:

• Three "winners" will be identified, one for each type of project. These three winners will each receive a Seed Grant of €2,000; travel for one representative to attend the awards ceremony held at the UNFCCC climate conferences (COP); and mentoring activities from members of the Women and Gender Constituency.
• The "winners" are invited to a capacity-building workshop during the COPs with previous Gender Equitable Climate Solutions winners. The workshops are organised in collaboration with the Climate Technology Centre & Network (CTCN) and include training in scaling up solutions, sharing experience and expertise, and networking.
• Up to 30 additional "finalists" (winners) will be featured in a full-colour publication that will be presented at a high-level international awards ceremony during the COPs, as well as highlighted on the WGC website.

Eligibility criteria Gender Just Climate Prize

• All types of activist, grassroots and women-led organisations and groups working on climate change issues around the world are encouraged to apply.
• Only non-governmental initiatives are eligible (local or national government initiatives cannot be considered). The activity/initiative must either have already been completed or be in progress.
• The initiative must fall within one of the 3 types of project rewarded.

Gender Just Climate Award Criteria

• Initiatives will be assessed against the following criteria designed to measure contributions to gender equality, resilience and sustainability.
• The winning projects will ideally work in all the key outcome areas, although the organisers note that not all projects will be able to / at the stage of meeting all the criteria.
• Due to existing inequalities and the lack of resources available globally, priority will be given to women-led initiatives, recognising that programmes do not necessarily have to be led by women to be gender equitable.
• Applications can be submitted in
  • Arabic
  • English
  • French
  • Spanish

For more information, please visit Women & Gender Constituency .