WGC Gender Just Climate Solutions Awards 2025 (€5,000 prize) – YOA

Deadline: July 31, 2025

Applications are open for the Women & Gender Constituency Gender Just Climate Solutions Awards 2025. In 2015, the Women & Gender Constituency (WGC) launched its first Gender-Just Climate Solutions Awards. These awards purpose to showcase concrete examples on the right way to heart gender equality and girls’s rights in local weather motion. They know the options to a extra sustainable future exist already and it’s time to upscale them far and huge, and demand change.

The Women and Gender Constituency (WGC) is likely one of the 9 stakeholder teams of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Established in 2009, the WGC now consists of 64 ladies’s and environmental civil society organizations, which are working to make sure that ladies’s voices and their rights are embedded in all processes and outcomes of the UNFCCC framework, for a sustainable and simply future, in order that gender equality and girls’s human rights are central to the continued discussions.

Winning initiatives are showcased throughout three completely different mission sorts:

• Technical local weather options which are gender-responsive specializing in applied sciences, i.e. water, renewable power, meals manufacturing or transformation, digitalization, waste discount, and so on.
• Non-technical local weather options which are gender-responsive specializing in behavioral change, mutual studying, abilities sharing, capability strengthening, and so on.
• Transformational local weather initiatives which are gender-responsive give attention to governance, institutional or societal change, and difficult patriarchal norms.

Award

Two tiers of Winners shall be chosen:

• Three prime ‘Award Winners’ shall be recognized, one per mission sort. These three winners will every obtain a Monetary Award of 5,000 Euros and journey for one consultant to attend the Awards Ceremony held at COP30 in Belem, Brazil this November 2025 (observe that attendance on the COP is topic to the provision of quotas granted by the UNFCCC).
• The ‘Award Winners’ are invited to a capability-constructing workshop with a few of the earlier awardees of the Gender Just Climate Solutions 2015-2023. The workshop contains coaching to up-scale their options, share their expertise and experience with one another, in addition to to community.
• Up to 12 nominees shall be featured within the Awards publication out there in 4 languages on-line and showcased throughout the Awards Ceremony at COP30.

Eligibility

• All varieties of activists, grassroots and girls-led, and gender equality organizations and teams engaged on points associated to local weather change from all around the world are inspired to apply.
• Only non-governmental initiatives are eligible (native or nationwide authorities initiatives can’t be thought-about).
• The mission/initiative ought to both have been accomplished or be in present operation for a minimum of a 12 months.
• The initiative should match inside one of many 3 award classes of tasks.

Criteria

Initiatives shall be weighed towards the next standards aimed to measure contributions to gender equality, resilience, and sustainability. Winning tasks will ideally work throughout all key consequence areas, although the organizers observe that not all tasks shall be able/stage to satisfy each criterion. Due to present inequalities and an absence of accessible assets globally, precedence shall be given to ladies and gender-non conforming-led initiatives, recognizing that applications don’t essentially have to be ladies-led to be gender simply.

Result Area 1: Women’s rights and gender equality

• Provides equal entry to advantages for girls, males, gender non-conforming, and youth.
• Aims to alleviate and/or doesn’t add extra burden to ladies’s workload (reminiscent of through extra pure useful resource administration or care obligations with out compensation).
• Empowers ladies by means of higher mobility/accessibility, enhanced livelihood safety, enhanced meals safety, improved well being, entry to protected water, and so on. (as many advantages as attainable).
• Promotes ladies’s democratic rights and participation by making certain determination-making by native ladies, males, ladies’s teams, cooperatives, and communities.

Result Area 2: Climate Resilience

• Locally led and/or regionally pushed (decentralized and acceptable).
• Ensures self-sufficiency & a low enter of assets (protected, inexpensive, and sustainable).
• Contributes to local weather change mitigation, emissions discount, and/or local weather adaptation (the mission is sustainable).

Result Area 3: Scaling-up and switch

• Results could be shared, unfold & scaled up (replicable elsewhere, not simply benefiting one particular person).
• Shows interlinkages to cross-reducing points, reminiscent of (together with, however not restricted to) peace-constructing, pure assets administration, meals safety and/or well being, water, and sanitation.

Application

Complete the shape by Sunday, 13 July 2025, midnight CEST, to be thought-about for the 2025 Gender Just Climate Solutions Awards.

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For extra data, go to Gender Just Climate Solutions Awards.