Thank you to the financial and technical sponsors of the Awards:

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: SATURDAY, JULY 31TH, 2021 23:00 EST

Please have a look at our Frequently Asked Questions document before you start your application.

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To better understand how to apply, please read the instructions.

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.

Winning initiatives are showcased across three different project types, please review our previous award winners for examples:

1. Non-technical climate solutions with a women or gender perspective (e.g. in area of efficiency, consumption changes, resilience and capacity building etc.
2. Technical climate solutions with a women or gender perspective (e.g. in area of renewables, energy or adaptation technologies etc.)
3. Transformational climate initiatives with a women or gender perspective (e.g. addressing governance, institutional / societal change etc.)

Criteria: Initiatives will be weighed against the following criteria aimed to measure contributions to gender equality, resilience and sustainability. Winning projects will ideally work across all of the key result areas, though the organizers note that not all projects will be in a position / stage to meet each and every criteria. Due to existing inequalities and a lack of available resources globally, priority will be given to women-led initiatives, recognizing that programmes do not necessarily need to be women-led to be gender just.

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

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:

1. 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 (see here for details).
2. 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.
3. 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: 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.

Timeline:

Applications Open: Tuesday 01, June

Applications Close: Saturday, 31st July, 11pm EST

We look forward to receiving your submission - Please complete this form by Saturday, 31st July 2021, 11pm EST, in order to be considered for the 2021 Gender Just Climate Solutions Awards.

Please note that incomplete applications will not be taken into consideration. Therefore, we request that you answer every question thoroughly. If you have any questions about the Awards, please e-mail gina.cortes@wecf.org.

Photos from 2019 Gender Just Solutions Awards at COP25:

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