From strengthening Indigenous women's leadership and protecting forests to advancing disability justice, climate finance accountability, and community-led adaptation, these organizations are demonstrating what gender-just climate action looks like in practice.

Yet despite their leadership and impact, grassroots organizations continue to face significant barriers to accessing the resources needed to sustain and expand their work.

We are proud to share the 2026 recipients of the Gender Just Climate Solutions (GJCS) Scale Fund, supporting feminist and community-led organizations working at the forefront of climate justice. The Scale Fund provides flexible, needs-driven funding to strengthen organizational capacities, expand effective approaches, and support the long-term sustainability of locally led climate solutions.

In 2026, the Scale Fund has redistributed $213,979 USD to 15 organizations across 13 countries, supporting initiatives that advance women's rights, strengthen community resilience, and challenge the structural inequalities driving the climate crisis.

Meet the 2026 Scale Fund Recipients

Himpunan Wanita Disabilitas Indonesia (HWDI) | Indonesia

The Indonesian Association of Women with Disabilities (HWDI) brings together and empowers women with disabilities across Indonesia to advocate for their rights and protection. With Scale Fund support, HWDI is expanding its engagement with Indigenous women with disabilities in the Kajang Indigenous Community of South Sulawesi. The initiative strengthens their participation in climate-related decision-making and advances climate policies that respond to their needs and local realities, while building climate justice knowledge among women leaders within HWDI's district branches.

National Indigenous Disabled Women Association Nepal (NIDWAN) | Nepal

NIDWAN is an Indigenous young women-led organization advancing the rights and leadership of women with intersecting identities in Nepal. Through the Scale Fund, NIDWAN is strengthening its institutional capacities, including the development of monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning (MEAL) systems, while expanding its advocacy, communications, and knowledge-sharing strategies to advance more inclusive approaches to climate justice.

ONG JVE Bénin – Jeunes Volontaires pour l'Environnement | Benin

ONG JVE Bénin supports women and young people in building climate resilience and protecting their environments. Through the NYONU SI project, the organization works with women fishmongers in the Mono River basin to address climate impacts, declining fishery resources, and economic inequalities. Scale Fund support will strengthen monitoring, evaluation, and learning capacities to document the project's impact on women's livelihoods, clean technology adoption, and environmental protection.

Fondo Emerger (Emerger Fondo Socioambiental Colombia) | Colombia

Fondo Emerger strengthens the autonomy and leadership of communities defending their territories, ecosystems, and collective rights. With Scale Fund support, the organization will convene 20 rural, peasant, Indigenous, and Afro-Colombian women's organizations working on agroecology, land defense, biodiversity protection, and community resilience. The gathering will prioritize care infrastructure to enable meaningful participation and collective learning.

International Analog Forestry Network | Costa Rica / Global

The International Analog Forestry Network promotes community-led forest restoration through analog forestry, an approach that seeks to replicate the structure and ecological functions of healthy forest ecosystems. Scale Fund support will strengthen the network's strategic planning, fundraising, and communications, including the development of a publication highlighting the role of analog forestry in climate change adaptation.

PIFEVA / The Mwanamke Fund | Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Mwanamke Fund, an initiative of PIFEVA, is a feminist funding mechanism supporting grassroots women's organizations and movements. Scale Fund support will strengthen its technical and operational capacities to resource small-scale climate adaptation projects led by Indigenous and rural women across the African Great Lakes region, including the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Burundi.

Asociación SERES | Guatemala / El Salvador

Asociación SERES empowers young rural and Indigenous women to become climate justice leaders through education, mentorship, and community-led action. Scale Fund support will strengthen the organization's institutional capacity by consolidating its knowledge management systems and improving monitoring, evaluation, and learning tools to better document and sustain its transformative leadership work.

MAS Ambiantalista (Movimiento Ambientalista Santabarbarense) | Honduras

Based in the Lenca region of Honduras, MAS Ambiantalista works alongside land and environmental defenders to protect territories, natural resources, and collective rights. Scale Fund support will enable the organization to expand its communications and political advocacy campaigns, strengthening the defense of the environment, human rights, and the rights of Indigenous women.

Serikat Perempuan Indonesia (SERUNI) | Indonesia

SERUNI is a national women's organization bringing together rural farmers, workers, fisherfolk, students, and other women across Indonesia. Its climate justice advocacy centers agroecology as a gender-just solution. Through the Scale Fund, SERUNI will facilitate regional and national consultations to document members' experiences, challenges, and priorities, informing the development of a five-year strategic plan.

Koibatek Ogiek Women and Youth | Kenya

Koibatek Ogiek Women and Youth advances Indigenous women's and young people's leadership in responding to climate change, forest loss, and land dispossession. Scale Fund support will strengthen the organization's long-term sustainability through strategic planning, donor mapping, and fundraising development, helping position Indigenous Ogiek communities as leaders of locally driven climate solutions.

Women Network for Energy and Environment (WoNEE) | Nepal

WoNEE is a national network of grassroots women working to advance women's economic empowerment and participation in Nepal's energy sector and environmental policymaking. Scale Fund support will strengthen the organization's monitoring, evaluation, and learning systems to assess its electrical safety and skills training programs, generate evidence of their impact, and identify opportunities to expand women's leadership in the clean energy transition.

Angel Support Foundation | Nigeria

Angel Support Foundation works with communities affected by the environmental, social, and economic impacts of mining in Benue State, Nigeria. Through its ENCREP initiative, the organization advances community-led environmental monitoring, climate justice advocacy, and women's economic resilience. Scale Fund support will strengthen Environmental Justice Committees, expand support for women-led cooperatives, and develop tools for replicating community-based approaches.

Baithak – Challenging Taboos | Pakistan

Baithak builds feminist movements and advances women's bodily autonomy, leadership, and rights. With Scale Fund support, the organization will expand its community leadership curriculum in Gilgit-Baltistan, strengthening women's participation in climate preparedness, disaster response, recovery, and local decision-making. The initiative will also engage young men as allies in challenging harmful gender norms and promoting gender-responsive climate action.

Women Action Towards Economic Development (WATED) | Tanzania

WATED advances women's participation and leadership in local climate governance and finance. Scale Fund support will expand its work in Ifakara Town Council and Ukerewe District Council, strengthening the capacity of women-led community organizations and youth groups to engage in municipal climate planning, budgeting, and climate finance advocacy.

Integrated Disabled Women Activities (IDIWA) | Uganda

IDIWA advances gender equality and the rights of women and girls with disabilities. Through the Scale Fund, the organization will identify gaps in national climate plans at the intersection of gender, climate, and disability justice. The findings will inform a renewed organizational strategic plan and strengthen advocacy for more inclusive and accessible climate policies.

Investing in Feminist Climate Solutions

Since 2021, the Gender Just Climate Solutions Scale Fund has redistributed more than $830,000 to 56 recipients across 33 countries, investing in organizations and movements advancing locally led responses to the climate crisis.

The Fund builds on the Women and Gender Constituency's Gender Just Climate Solutions initiative and responds to a fundamental challenge in global climate finance: while grassroots feminist organizations are leading innovative and effective climate solutions, the resources and decision-making power necessary to sustain their work remain deeply unequal.

By supporting organizational development, strategic planning, advocacy, learning, and the replication of effective approaches, the Scale Fund recognizes that scaling impact is not simply about growing projects. It is about strengthening the organizations, movements, and relationships that make lasting transformation possible.

Resourcing feminist climate solutions is an investment in the leadership, knowledge, and collective power of communities already building more just, equitable, and sustainable futures.

Learn more about the Gender Just Climate Solutions Scale Fund.