Congratulations to GEDA’s Small Grants Winners!
Following our recent call for applications, the Gender and Environment Data Alliance (GEDA) has selected the recipients of the GEDA Small Grants for 2024.
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“Women’s Voices in Coastal Climate Adaptation: Rapid Feminist Participatory Research (WOVCCA-RFPR)”by Institute of Climate Change and Environmental Governance (ICEG)
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“Empowering local women in wetland inventory mapping in Uganda; A feminist participatory action research approach using user friendly digital tools” by Regional Center for Mapping of Resources for Development
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“The FemData Project” by EMACE Foundation of Sri Lanka
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“Gender Indicators and Citizen Science on Loss and Damage in Central America” by Asociación La Ruta del Clima
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“Gender, water, and climate mobility in Afghanistan” by Environment Conservation Organization for Afghanistan (ECOFA)
Loss and Damage: Gender Indicators
Asociación La Ruta del Clima
San José, Costa Rica
La Ruta del Clima is an NGO that promotes public participation in climate and environmental decision-making, through education, awareness, training and communication on climate change in Latin America. The focus of our work are climate impacts, justice, human rights, community data and loss and damage
Loss and Damage: Gender Indicators
Building from La Ruta del Clima’s community information system on loss and damage in Central America, this project aims to complement design a module of statistical gender indicators. This module will allow this tool to be expanded with the aim of generating data around these climate impacts, which strengthen the use of information in gender-transformative climate action. The project encompasses the design of this module and a pilot in Costa Rica.
Empowering local women in wetland inventory mapping in Uganda: A feminist participatory action research approach
Regional Center for Mapping of Resources for Development
Nairobi, Kenya
Regional Center for Mapping of Resources for Development to strengthen the member States and our stakeholder’s capacity through Generation, Application and Dissemination of Geo-information and Allied Technologies for sustainable development.
Empowering local women in wetland inventory mapping in Uganda: A feminist participatory action research approach
This project aims to:
1. Co-create and operationalize Wetlands Inventory mapping and monitoring by women groups;
2. Enhance the capacities of grassroots women groups in user friendly geospatial tools for wetland assessment and monitoring;
3. Promote advocacy of women participation and decision making in geospatial technologies; and
4. Empower grassroots women to establish a women-driven mapping platform for sustainable wetland management.
The study location is Uganda and study sites will be determined through a participatory key stakeholder engagement process.
Women’s Voices in Coastal Climate Adaptation: Rapid Feminist Participatory Research (WOVCCA-RFPR)
Institute of Climate and Environmental Governance (ICEG)
Accra, Ghana
ICEG’s mission is to empower African communities and promote sustainable climate and environmental governance through cutting-edge research, advocacy, and collaboration with key stakeholders, so as to create a sustainable future for all.
Women’s Voices in Coastal Climate Adaptation: Rapid Feminist Participatory Research (WOVCCA-RFPR)
This project aims to collect, analyze, and disseminate gender-disaggregated data on climate change impacts and adaptation strategies in two vulnerable coastal communities in Ghana: Keta and Ada East in the Volta and Greater Accra regions, respectively. The project will employ FPAR methodologies to ensure that women’s voices, experiences, and knowledge are at the forefront of data collection and analysis. ICEG will recruit and train six local women as peer-researchers, three from each community, building their capacity in research methods while leveraging their community knowledge, empowering them as agents-of-change in climate adaptation.
The project will focus on four key objectives:
1. Documenting gendered impacts of climate change in coastal areas, exploring how climate change affects women, with particular attention to livelihoods, health, safety, and access to resources.
2. Identifying women-led adaptation strategies, highlighting existing coping mechanisms and innovative solutions developed by women in response to climate challenges.
3. Assessing barriers to women’s participation in climate decision-making, investigating the social, economic, and institutional factors/barriers that limit women’s involvement in climate-related decision-making processes at local, regional, and national levels
4. Exploring intersectional vulnerabilities, examining how intersecting factors such as age, disability, socioeconomic status, and education level influence women’s vulnerabilities and capacities to adapt to climate change. This will help create unique vulnerabilities and adaptation needs.
The FemData Project
EMACE Foundation of Sri Lanka
Nairobi, Kenya
Supporting vulnerable communities especially women through climate justice related interventions.
The FemData Project
The project involves supporting 1000 women from Sri Lanka to learn and utilise feminist and participatory research methodologies, create awareness and capacity to use knowledge, data, tools and resources for women’s movements and secure space for advocacy to change laws, policies and practices. The FemData project will work with women from journalism, community and grassroots backgrounds to gain vital information and data that would feed into both the GEDA’s data resources as well as the national advocacy mechanisms through the Women’s Parliamentary Research Unit.
Gender, water, and climate mobility in Afghanistan
Environment Conservation Organization for Afghanistan (ECOFA)
Kabul, Afghanistan
Environment Conservation Organization for Afghanistan (ECOFA) is a non-governmental, non-political and non- profitable organization, registered with the Ministry of Economy of Afghanistan. The NGO aims to establish a developed educational environment for men and women; improve agricultural knowledge and technics by use of sophisticated technologies to allow agriculture business more profitable, efficient, safer and more environmentally friendly; develop irrigation through various system of water supply; and provide social services to aid disadvantaged, distressed, or vulnerable persons or groups.
Gender, water, and climate mobility in Afghanistan
This project aims to collect crucial data on water availability, quality, and the impact of climate change on migration patterns; and to use the data to advocate for gender-responsive policies that address gender-specific vulnerabilities related to water and climate mobility. The main activities of the project are:
– Data collection: Implement a structured data collection program focusing on water availability, quality, and climate-induced migration patterns.
– Community engagement: Engage local communities through awareness campaigns about the importance of monitoring water resources and understanding climate mobility.
– Data analysis and reporting: Analyze the collected data to identify key trends and challenges. Prepare detailed reports and policy briefs to share with local authorities, NGOs, and international organizations.
– Advocacy and dissemination: Organize events and presentations to disseminate findings and advocate for gender-responsive policies.
