Feminist Systems Change
Shifting narratives, exposing power, and transforming how people understand environmental and gender justice.
Overview
We expose the power structures underlying environmental and gender injustice. We connect lived experience to policy, challenge harmful narratives, create visibility, and build shared understanding across movements and institutions.
Why Feminist Systems Change Matters
Environmental crises are rooted in systems of inequality. Policies fail when they ignore care work, land rights, mobility, labor, discrimination, and power. Transformative solutions require changing not just policies, but the narratives and assumptions that shape them.
What We Do
Through our Feminist Systems Change work, we:
- Produce tools, briefs, and analyses that make complex issues accessible
- Challenge false narratives and harmful framings of climate and gender issues
- Generate and share feminist data through the Gender and Environment Data Alliance (GEDA) and the Gender Climate Tracker
- Convene deep-dive conversations on emerging intersections
- Support participatory and community-led knowledge creation
- Build common language to strengthen movement strategy
Work to Date
Highlights of our Feminist Systems Change work include:
- Critical Conversations series
- Gender Climate Tracker database and analysis
- GEDA fellowships, grants, and research
- Annual Trends Report on Economic Justice
- Myth-busting work on population narratives and technocratic climate framings
- Policy briefs on adaptation, care systems, finance, just transition, and more
Related Resources
Insight
Foreign Policy Was Not Built for Climate Justice. What Comes Next?
Advocacy in Action
Where Feminist Voices Are Showing Up for the Just Transition
Advocacy in Action
Advancing Feminist Climate Justice at SB64 in Bonn
Advocacy in Action
Funding the Commitments We Already Have: WEDO at Eighth GEF Assembly
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