Deadline: 30-Nov-2024

WomenStrong is actively seeking potential grantees that identify as local women-led organizations working in urban and peri-urban areas on climate and/or environmental justice-related issues and taking a gender-responsive approach.

They are seeking to build a cohort of women-led partner organizations based anywhere in the world striving to raise awareness of and build movements around climate and environmental justice. These organizations will work to mobilize women within their communities, both as the people most affected by climate breakdown and environmental injustice, but also as the key drivers behind local actions designed to tackle them. Many will work at the intersections of gender and climate because successful strategies for advancing climate and environmental justice require intersectional approaches.

Program Details

• They are seeking to build a cohort of women-led organizations striving to raise awareness of and build movements around climate and environmental justice within their communities.
• These organizations will work to mobilize women, both as the people most affected by climate breakdown and environmental injustice, but also as the key drivers behind local actions to tackle them.
• Many will work at the intersections of gender and climate and tackle the same issues that the current 19 WomenStrong partners work on – reproductive health, girls’ education, women’s economic security, and preventing violence against women and girls – as these issues are not only exacerbated by the climate crisis, but because successful strategies for advancing climate and environmental justice require intersectional approaches.
• They ask that the grantee partners join the WomenStrong Learning Lab. The Learning Lab is a (mostly) virtual community that brings the partners together to share, learn, and disseminate findings that can advance the evidence base for what works to improve the lives of women and girls. The Lab also provides opportunities for the partners to strengthen their capacity and connect with each other, so that they might strengthen their work and develop, test, sharpen, and disseminate their solutions more broadly.

Eligibility Criteria

• They have no geographic limitations to where they fund.
• They will welcome the new cohort to share their solutions and knowledge in the Learning Lab where they will cultivate the synergies between the new grantee partners working on climate-related issues and those already in the Lab. All the grantees come together in the Lab to explore common topics for discussion, encourage each other’s learning and growth, and share resources and lessons learned.
• If your organization works on climate and environment-related issues and is interested in becoming an active participant of the WomenStrong Learning Lab, they invite you to apply to be a grantee partner.

For more information, visit WomenStrong International.