WHAT WE DO
The primary goal of the Global Gender and Climate Alliance (GGCA) is to ensure that climate change policies, decisionmaking, and initiatives at the global, regional, and national levels are gender responsive.
The GGCA works toward four complementary objectives:
Integrate a gender perspective into policy and decision making in order to ensure international mandates and other legal instruments on gender equality are fully implemented.
There is no global policy specifically on gender and climate change. The GGCA’s advocacy team is led by civil society organizations from diverse countries with expertise in gender, sustainable development, and climate change. The GGCA advocacy team is active in negotiations of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the GGCA collaborates with the UNFCCC Secretariat. In 2008, the GGCA advocacy team was also active in bringing the gender and climate change message to the Global Congress on Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction and the AWID Forum.
Ensure that financing mechanisms on mitigation and adaptation address the needs of poor women and men equitably.
Billions of dollars will be spent to finance climate change mitigation and adaptation initiatives. In order to ensure that climate change finance mechanisms are gender responsive, the GGCA collaborates with women’s economic justice and environmental networks, governments, and the private sector to deliver gender guidelines on adaptation, mitigation, and private sector finance. In 2008, the GGCA held the Workshop on Gender and Climate Change Finance.
Build capacity at all levels to design and implement gender-responsive climate change policies, strategies and programmes.
The GGCA developed the Training Manual on Gender and Climate Change focused on the Bail Action Plan building blocks of mitigation, adaptation, technology, and finance. In 2008, a global Training of Trainers was held prior to the UN Climate Change Conference in Poznań, Poland (UNFCCC COP-14). Also prior to the Poznań meeting, the GGCA held an Orientation on Gender and Climate Change for government delegates to the UNFCCC, in which 50 delegates from diverse regions participated. The manual is currently being updated and will soon be available in multiple languages.
Develop, compile, and share practical tools, information, and methodologies to facilitate the integration of gender into policy and programming. The members of the GGCA have produced cutting edge tools and publications in the area of gender and climate change and regularly exchange knowledge and explore emerging areas. See the list of GGCA resources. Some GGCA members are piloting methodologies for incorporating a gender perspective in national and local policies and programs.