Young women and girls in the rural and marginalized communities are disproportionately affected by climate change impacts, but these are excluded from decision making spaces at local, national and international level. In our communities, we have limited or no access to control and management of natural resources and girls and young women are the custodians of the environment. 

Every year, G4CA runs a Climate Corps Fellowship, a 6-months fellowship which focuses on capacity strengthening for young women and girls in their different diversities in climate advocacy, Climate activism, policy analysis and influencing policy reforms at the local and national level. This enables the girls to lead climate action with in their communities and at national and international level. At the end of the fellowship, the girls and young women start climate projects guided by mentors and before they graduate from the program, the launch an Eco-feminist manifesto that is used to lobby in various decision making spaces including COPs, Revision of NDCs, SBs among other spaces. 

“The Climate Corps are also taking over leadership in the local environmental sub-committees, We need system change”.