WECF Gender Just Climate Solutions Awards 2026 (€5,000 cash prize) – YOA

Deadline: July 12, 2026

Applications are open for the WECF Gender Just Climate Solutions Awards 2026. This initiative is led by the Women and Gender Constituency (WGC) and Women Engage for a Common Future (WECF) with the monetary assist of the Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN) and the European Union in the framework of Women Power 2030. 

Now in its eleventh version, this worldwide award recognises revolutionary, inclusive and impactful approaches to tackling local weather change. It highlights sensible initiatives that place gender equality and girls’s rights on the coronary heart of local weather motion.

Categories

The award has three classes:

• Technical Climate Solutions: Gender-responsive options in sectors equivalent to water, renewable vitality, meals manufacturing, digitalization, and waste discount.
• Non-Technical Climate Solutions: Projects selling behavioural change, mutual studying, and capability-constructing with a gender-responsive lens.
• Transformative Climate Initiatives: Efforts focusing on governance and institutional or social change that problem patriarchal norms.

Prizes

Three successful initiatives will every obtain:

• A €5,000 cash prize;
• Fully funded journey for one consultant per venture to attend the award ceremony at COP 31 in Antalya, Turkey, in November 2026.
• Tailored mentorship from members of the Women and Gender Constituency.

Eligibility

They welcome functions from all kinds of activist, grassroots, and civil society organisations and teams engaged on gender-simply local weather motion within the Global South.

• Women-led and gender-various-led initiatives are particularly inspired to apply. They actively prioritise their management within the analysis course of.
• Men, girls, and gender-various folks can apply, so long as the venture is genuinely gender-simply and inclusive.
• Non-governmental initiatives solely (native or nationwide authorities-led initiatives aren’t eligible).
• Projects should have been operating for a minimum of one 12 months (ongoing or accomplished).
• The initiative should match one of many three award classes.

Application

Applications will shut on Sunday, 12 July 2026 at 23:59 CEST.

Click here to apply

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