A new initiative aims to celebrate and showcase 'best practice' approaches to supporting women's leadership in climate solutions. Get your nominations in by 10 September!

The UNFCCC Women & Gender Constituency (WGC) and the Climate Technology Centre and Network invite you to participate in the Gender Just Climate Solutions Awards.

These awards aim to showcase real solutions for a more just, equal and healthy planet. Previous initiatives recognised 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 categories, please review our previous award winners for examples:

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

Criteria: Initiatives will be weighted 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 criterion. Due to existing inequalities and a lack of available resources globally, priority will be given to women-led initiatives, recognising that programmes do not necessarily need to be women-led to be gender just.

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 category. These three winners will each receive a Seed Grant of 2000 Euros; travel for one representative to attend the Awards Ceremony held at COP24 in Katowice, Poland this December 2018, where the official award ceremony will take place, and where the winners will attend a capacity building session together with the United Nations’ Climate Technology Centre and Network.
2. 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 COP24, as well as be highlighted on the WGC website.
Eligibility: All types of activist, grassroots and women-led organisations and groups working on issues related to climate change 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 three award categories.

Timeline:

Applications Open: Friday 6, July
Applications Close: Monday, 10 September, 5pm EST
Apply for the Award in French
Apply for the Award in Spanish

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 20 women’s and environmental civil society organisations, 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.

Apply now for the Gender Just Climate Solutions Awards.