Seeds of change: stories that are transforming climate finance
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How change happens
Nahua Women Defend Body, Territory, Ancestral Knowledge and Community Autonomy
Amid extractive tourism and barriers to climate finance, Nahua women are building alternatives to defend their territory and sustain life through ancestral knowledge.
🟠 Gender-just solutions
Lessons from RECLIMA: Participatory Monitoring of the Green Climate Fund
In El Salvador, civil society leads participatory monitoring of GCF projects to strengthen transparency, accountability and gender justice during implementation.
🔵 Community monitoring
Women Defenders: Community Perspectives for a More Liveable World
Ayoreo women organise to protect their land and expand their autonomy, showing how collective action and sustained support strengthen climate justice.
🟠 Gender-just solutions
Nicaraguan Communities Secure GCF Withdrawal from Project That Threatened Their Rights
Collective action sets a powerful precedent, demonstrating that climate finance must be grounded in participation, transparency and respect for territorial rights.
🟣 Policy engagement
Women defenders advance climate finance grounded in socio-environmental justice
Across different territories, grassroots organisations strengthen skills and alliances to transform access to climate resources and challenge decision-making spaces.
🟢 International advocacy
Women’s Organisations Reshape Climate Finance and Gender Justice in Burkina Faso
From exclusion to leadership, women’s organisations in Burkina Faso are reshaping climate finance through collective action and feminist advocacy.
🟣 Policy engagement
Women Lead Climate Finance Justice in Tanzania: From Barriers to Transformative Action
Grassroots women in Tanzania organise, monitor and lead efforts to redirect climate finance toward communities, rights and accountability.
🟣 Policy engagement
Financing Change: How Women Transform Climate Budgets for Equity and Resilience
In Nepal, women reshape climate finance and public budgets to advance equity, restore ecosystems and strengthen community resilience.
🟠 Gender-just solutions
Women Lead Land Restoration and Climate Resilience in Eastern Uganda
Facing floods and drought, women farmers overcome systemic barriers to land and resources, showing that lasting environmental change depends on their leadership.
🟠 Gender-just solutions
Stories from the territories advancing gender-just climate finance
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