Women for Results recognizes the critical leadership and participation of women in addressing climate change. This focus area is implemented with the support of donors supporting the implementation of the UNFCCC’s Gender Action Plan. Narrated by poet and writer Aka Niviâna, it tells the story of the winners of the 2018 Momentum for Change Awards, in the Women for Results category:
“Yalla Let’s Bike” Initiative | Syria
Women are defying traditional gender roles and combatting overcrowded streets by promoting cycling as a healthy and sustainable mode of transportation in the war-ridden city of Damascus.
Women Leading a Food Sharing Revolution! | UK, Sweden, USA
Women are leading a food revolution with OLIO, the world’s only neighbor-to-neighbor food sharing app. OLIO is co-founded and led by women and two-thirds of the app’s users are women.
HelpUsGreen | India
Women are creating compost from ceremonial flowers and simultaneously cleaning up the River Ganges.
Feminist Electrification: Ensuring Pro-Women Outcomes in Rural Energy Access | Haiti
Energy poverty, a lack of access to modern energy services, is disproportionally affecting women in rural areas. So, EarthSpark International, a women-run enterprise, is meeting this challenge head on by approaching all its energy access projects with a gender lens, referring to this as “feminist electrification.”
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