Gender + Environment Data Alliance (GEDA)

Ensuring Gender-Environment Data Accessibility

We connect organizations, researchers, and advocates to compile, curate, and communicate evidence that can inform policy, finance, and community-led solutions.

GEDA serves as a dedicated global platform for gender-environment data, ensuring existing knowledge is visible, accessible, and used where it matters most.

Why GEDA Matters

Environmental change has differentiated impacts across genders, with women, girls, and other marginalized communities often experiencing disproportionate harm. At the same time, these communities are leading effective solutions to adapt to climate change and protect ecosystems.

Despite this reality, gender-responsive environmental data remains fragmented, underfunded, and underused. Where data does exist, it is often disconnected from policy processes or overlooked by decision makers. Without accurate and inclusive data, it is not possible to design effective solutions or advance equitable environmental policy.

How GEDA Works

Through GEDA, we:

• Coordinate a global alliance of organizations working on gender and environment data
• Compile and curate existing data to improve visibility and access
• Support the generation of new evidence through research partnerships and small grants
• Elevate feminist, participatory, and community-based methodologies
• Advocate for gender-environment data to be integrated into official statistical and policy systems

GEDA recognizes quantitative and qualitative data, including traditional and Indigenous knowledge, as essential to understanding environmental impacts and solutions.

Promoting Knowledge and Understanding

GEDA helps decision makers, advocates, and funders better understand how environmental change affects different communities and how gender-responsive solutions work in practice. By connecting data to policy and finance debates, the Alliance strengthens accountability and supports more effective and just environmental action.

Governance and Accountability

GEDA was developed as a commitment under the Generation Equality Forum and is driven by the priorities of women’s movements and gender and climate constituencies.

The Alliance is co-convened by WEDO and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). As of 2024, GEDA has grown from 17 founding members to more than 90 organizations globally and is guided by a Steering Committee of nine organizations. Its structure centers accountability to grassroots and feminist organizations, with clear pathways for engagement and influence.

How GEDA Connects to Our Broader Work

GEDA supports feminist systems change by strengthening the knowledge infrastructure that underpins policy, advocacy, and financing decisions. It moves minds by making evidence visible and usable, and it supports power shifting by ensuring data reflects lived realities and community leadership.