Climate Resilience and Gender Challenge

Crowd4SDG seeks research projects that address the issues of climate change and gender equality. The projects should tackle challenges of:

  • Measuring the differentiated impacts of disasters on women and men.
  • Assessing women’s vulnerability to climate change effects on natural resources.
  • Improving data on women’s participation in environmental management.
  • Measuring the health of ecosystems in a systemic way with women’s contribution.
  • Open challenge on crowdsourcing for climate change resilience and gender equality

The process

The #Open17 Challenge offers a 5 weeks online interactive coaching and mentorship program to global innovators to help them to connect and shape good ideas into viable social innovation projects and prototypes.

Benefits

  • Selected applicants will receive coaching that will last 5 weeks and Mentorship. Furthermore, participants will also learn about crowdsourcing tools for data collection, data classification, decision making and social media analysis that are relevant to their projects.
  • In this workshop, teams will learn how to build a functional prototype for their project and connect with communities and social innovation experts who can help to launch and sustain the project.
  • Participants who successfully complete the online coaching program will receive a certificate of completion from the UN Institute for Training and Research, and similarly for the online workshop.

How participants can apply

The challenge is open to any individual or team of up to four people anywhere in the world. Applicants must be 16 or older. Applications must be in English, and participants should have a good command of written and spoken English. To apply, participants will need to create a one-minute pitch and submit it here.  Deadline is 30 September 2021.

For more information: https://crowd4sdg.eu/take-part-climate-gender/

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