The Gender-Just Climate Solutions Award and capacity building programme honours the fundamental contribution of women in the fight against climate change and supports innovative organisations to scale up their climate change solutions.
As Fatou Ndoye, Award winner from 2016 stated during the ceremony: “Women are at the heart of the energy system: to fetch wood, water, transform… This requires enormous physical efforts while at the same time educating and taking care of their children. With all these burdens, they are de facto distant from decision-making”.