After the COVID pandemic, the onslaught of wars and genocides across the world, the rise of authoritarianism, acute polarization, and extreme changes to our climate systems, the world has transformed significantly in recent years.
Although the climate crisis affects everyone, the effects are far from equal. Systematically marginalized groups located in the Global South and East are the most affected, suffering the burden of unsustainable patterns of production and consumption, diverse inequalities between countries, discrimination, and various forms of oppression.
Against this backdrop, women, gender-diverse groups, and Indigenous peoples continue to organize and drive political change within their communities, countries, and regions. By developing and implementing strategies, alternatives, and solutions that bravely and boldly care for people and the planet, they lead the fight for the protection of their lands and territories and stand up to governments and corporations in defense of life—safeguarding land, oceans, biodiversity, communities, and natural resources.
Unfortunately, these groups are underrepresented
and underfunded.
In 2018, we published ‘Our Voices, Our Environment: The state of funding for women’s environmental action.’ The report showed that only 0.2% of all foundation grant dollars reached groups working at the intersection of women and the environment.
Five years later, in collaboration with the Global Greengrants Fund, Prospera International Network of Women's Funds, the Human Rights Funders Network (HRFN), and the Global Alliance For Green And Gender Action (GAGGA), we have published ‘Seeds for Harvest: Funding for Gender, Climate, and Environmental Justice.’
Grounded in a renewed sense of hope, resilience, and possibility, our latest report provides a powerful understanding of the state of funding for gender, climate, and environmental justice work while underscoring the significant need for and lack of funding.
Through data analysis, case studies, and the identification of trends and opportunities, we showcase the funding landscape for gender, environmental, and climate justice movements and provide valuable new insights into the current funding landscape.
The report underscores the need to collectively pay attention to and drive resources to activists in countries and regions directly impacted and neglected. Remarkably, this is also the most effective, impactful, and sustainable way of responding to climate collapse—by building systems of resilience, accountability, and longevity from the ground up.
👉 Read Seeds for Harvest Executive Summary below or download the full report here: https://lnkd.in/dt3XfEXF
