Casa Fund and GAGGA Alliance launch study about women´s role in the south American territory

Casa Fund´s publication, in partnership with GAGGA Alliance, brings data about the support given to women defenders of the environment between 2016 and 2020

Casa Socio-Environmental Fund , in partnership with GAGGA Alliance (Global Alliance for Green and Gender Action), launches a publication that marks the first five years of direct support to women defenders of the environment in Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay, entitled “Powerful Women: performance of groups in the socio environmental agenda – experiences in South America”.

The closing of a circle is always a very symbolic moment, especially when it brings significant results from the trajectory of women defenders and communities that face several challenges, such as the socio environmental impact of large infrastructure works and other projects that threaten traditional ways of life of South American communities. With the projects supported by the GAGGA Alliance, these people were able to access financial resources and other tools to improve their conditions of permanence in their original territories.

With innovative approaches, the support provided by the GAGGA Alliance shows the natural power of women´s creative, sensitive and achieving strength in their quest for historically denied rights and the struggle for environmental justice, such as the right to access clean water, food sovereignty, to a healthy and balanced environment, to the maintenance of the necessary resources for the life of present and future generations.

In this five-year period, GAGGA support provided technical training aimed at organizing the work fronts, strengthening the groups so that they could achieve their goals, clarifying the legal mechanisms available for the defende of their territories, the water protection and management, as well as propositional approaches, such as seed banks, with the aim of providing food security and sovereignty for communities, community business, and many other topics.

Publication page showing data related to the rights that women defende and promote.

According to Vanessa Purper, manager of the GAGGA program within Casa Socio-Environmental Fund, program that supported projects in Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay, the work of the women supported in more than 100 projects in the last 5 years “covered a series of activities that brought them the kind of transformations that GAGGA Alliance wishes to encourage, of how to defende their rights to a clean, healthy and safe environment”.

The publication brings reports, graphics, testimonials, and an in-depth study on the impacts and outcomes of these supports within the same territory, over time, in terms of social and environmental transformations: “This publication brings a study about this format of support, this way of looking at this social methodology of grant making in these countries, with these defenders and within this same time frame”, finishes Vanessa.

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