Deadline: 13-Jul-25
The Women & Gender Constituency is thrilled to invite nominations for the Gender Just Climate Solutions Awards.
These awards aim to showcase concrete examples on how to center gender equality and women’s rights in climate action. They know the solutions to a more sustainable future already exist and it is time to upscale them far and wide, and demand change.
The WGC now consists of 64 women’s and environmental civil society organizations, that 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.
Prize Information
Three top ‘Award Winners’ will be identified, one per project type. These three winners will each receive a Monetary Award of 5000 Euros and travel for one representative to attend the Awards Ceremony held at COP30 in Belem, Brazil this November 2025.
The ‘Award Winners’ are invited to a capacity-building workshop with some of the previous awardees of the Gender Just Climate Solutions 2015-2023. The workshop includes training to up-scale their solutions, share their experience and expertise with each other, as well as to network.
Up to 12 nominees will be featured in the Awards publication available in four languages online and showcased during the Awards Ceremony at COP30.
Eligibility Criteria
All types of activist, grassroots and women-led, and gender equality organizations and groups working on issues related to climate change from all over the world are encouraged to apply.
Only non-governmental initiatives are eligible (local or national government initiatives cannot be considered). The project/initiative should either have been completed or be in current operation for at least a year. The initiative must fit within one of the 3 award categories of projects.
Evaluation Criteria
Initiatives will be weighed against the following criteria aimed to measure contributions to gender equality, resilience, and sustainability. Winning projects will ideally work across all key result areas, though the organizers note that not all projects will be in a position/stage to meet every criterion:
Women’s rights and gender equality:
Provides equal access to benefits for women, men, gender non-conforming, and youth.
Aims to alleviate and/or does not add additional burden to women’s workload (such as via additional natural resource management or care responsibilities without compensation).
Climate Resilience:
Locally led and/or locally driven (decentralized and appropriate).
Ensures self-sufficiency & a low input of resources (safe, affordable, and sustainable).
Scaling-up and transfer:
Results can be shared, spread & scaled up (replicable elsewhere, not just benefiting one individual).
Shows interlinkages to cross-cutting issues, such as (including, but not restricted to) peace-building, natural resources management, food security and/or health, water, and sanitation.
For more information, visit Women & Gender Constituency.