Tag: Disability Rights

A group of young people from Haiti stand together as a group and pose for the camera. Most of them are holding their hand in one position, with their thumb, pointer, and pinky finger up. Many of them are laughing. Next to them is a banner that says in French: "Plaidoyer pour la reduction des effets du changement climatique sur les personnes handicapees." Beneath that text are logos for Global Greengrants Fund and our Haitian grantee partner CONAPH.

Inclusive Natural Disaster Emergency Responses: Advocating for Persons with Disabilities in Haiti

The Disability Rights and Climate Justice (DRCJ) Advisory Board at Global Greengrants Fund is a global board founded in 2022 that encourages intersectional connections between disability rights and climate justice movements. In this blog series, we hear directly from those grantee partners, digging deeper into their contexts, their strategies for supporting disability rights and environmental […]

Celebrating One Year of the Disability Rights and Climate Justice Board

By Yolanda Muñoz, Disability Rights and Climate Justice Board Coordinator In July 2023, Global Greengrants Fund celebrated the first anniversary of the Disability Rights and Climate Justice (DRCJ) Advisory Board, an initiative that stands at the crossroads of two pressing global issues—disability rights and climate justice. Global Greengrants Fund’s disability work began in 2018, when […]

How Funders Can Address Ableism in the Environmental Justice Movement

In 2018, Global Greengrants Fund, a leading funder of grassroots environmental justice movements, began a new initiative to support work at the intersection of disability rights and environmental justice. This initiative was supported by The Ford Foundation, as well as Yolanda Muñoz, a previous Program Officer with the Disability Rights Fund, who offered her experience […]

Challenging Monoculture in Brazil: COVID-19 Sparks Return to Traditional Cassava

Words by Eduardo Alfredo Moraes Guimarães of The Institute for Human and Integrated Development (ITC), an organization supported by CASA Socio-Environmental Fund (CASA). CASA is Global Greengrants Fund’s grantmaking arm in Brazil. It is a revolutionary act to oppose the monoculture of colonial export agriculture and, at the same time, to revitalize traditional crops such […]

Youth Movements, Inclusion, and Climate Justice in Zimbabwe

How one grantee is making sure everyone has a voice in the climate conversation When it comes to climate change, environmental sustainability and policy decisions, we often think of government entities, politicians, and rooms with long conference tables. The Zimbabwe Sunshine Group (ZSG) is seeking to change that. ZSG, a Greengrants grantee, wants new spaces […]

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