Tag: Africa

Action on Climate Change: The Power of Collaboration

The threat of climate change worldwide is growing, and women are impacted uniquely and disproportionately. To elevate their voices, mobilize resources to female frontline environmental defenders, and enact change now, we need collaboration across sectors. In other words, a new kind of partnership. Meet the Global Alliance for Green and Gender Action, GAGGA for short. […]

Five Ways Environmental Defenders are Responding to COVID-19

Across the world, our grantees are acting today for a brighter tomorrow. At Global Greengrants Fund, we trust the instincts of local people. The current pandemic is no different, and we continue to give money to communities and individuals to be used in the ways they deem fit. In response to COVID-19, our grantees are […]

Deadly Dunes: The Risks of Standing Up for Justice in Pondoland, South Africa

Welcome to Pondoland, South Africa’s least economically developed region. What the region lacks in infrastructure, it makes up for in natural resources. Ecologists have named the region the Pondoland Center for Plant Endemism, home to many species found nowhere else in the world. While beautiful, Pondoland is also home to violence and strife. Transworld Mining, […]

Dispatch from Eastern Africa: The Impacts of COVID-19

Last week, we had the opportunity to hear from our East Africa coordinator and our Kenya advisor, who are directly in touch with our network of grantees and advisors throughout Eastern Africa. Our conversation with Naomi Lanoi Leleto and Mali Ole Kaunga gave us some insights into how local people, and especially Indigenous communities, across […]

The Virus Will Not Change Anything We Won’t Change

By Nnimmo Bassey, Co-chair of the Global Greengrants Fund Board of Directors This piece was originally posted on nnimmobassey.net. A key fact we have to face is that the coronavirus will not change anything we won’t change. The change that will frame the post pandemic era will come from humans, our relationship with each other and […]

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