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Gender Just Climate Solutions Awards 2024 | €5,000 prize

Applications are now open for the Gender Just Climate Solutions Awards 2024. Every year, the Gender Just Climate Solutions Awards are given to grassroots, community groups, and non-governmental organizations that are working to address the climate crisis while also promoting gender equality.

These solutions are leading community solutions and system-changing climate action that bring multiple social and environmental improvements. They contribute to raising the ambition to achieve the 1.5-degree target by 2030.

Three winners are selected by a diverse group of jury members from the Women and Gender Constituency (WGC) following an open and transparent process and are announced during an official, high-level ceremony at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP).

Winning solutions are showcased across three different project categories:

  • Technical – gender-responsive climate solutions focusing on technologies, i.e. water, RE, food production or transformation, digitalization, waste reduction etc.
  • Non-technical – gender-responsive climate solutions focusing on behavioral change, mutual learning, skills sharing, capacity strengthening etc.
  • Transformational – gender-responsive climate solutions focusing on addressing governance, institutional / societal change etc.

Benefits

  • Each winner receives a €5,000 monetary award, a chance to attend COP29, which will be held in Baku, Azerbaijan, fully covered travel, and enter Women Engage for a Common Future (WECF) long-term mentoring programme which supports them in strengthening and upscaling their leading solutions.
  • Up to 20 nominees’ projects are presented in the Awards publication, on the online platforms, and at the Awards Ceremony during the COP.

Eligibility

  • Open to grassroots, community groups and non-governmental organizations tackling the climate emergency while advancing gender equality.
  • They highly encourage grassroots, women-led and LGBTQI+ organizations from the Global South and Global East to apply.

Application

The deadline for sending your application is Sunday, July 21, 2024 at 23:59 CEST.

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For more information, visit Gender Just Climate Solutions Awards.

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