📋 Tender Overview
PROJECT DETAILS
Project number:
2023.2256.8
Status:
ongoing project
Responsible organizational unit:
2C00 Latin America, Caribbean
Contact person:
Katharina Bohl katharina.bohl@giz.de
partner countries:
Brazil
SUMMARY
Goals:
Women in Amazonia are empowered in their equal social, economic and political participation for a Just Transition.
Client:
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
Project partners:
Ministry of Women
Financier:
not available
ORDER VOLUME
Overall project:
(including all previous, current and subsequent project phases, if applicable)
4,000,000 euros
Current project:
4,000,000 euros
COMBINED FINANCING
not available
PREDECESSOR PROJECT
not available
SUCCESSOR PROJECT
not available
DURATION
Overall project:
(including all previous, current and subsequent project phases, if applicable)
December 17, 2024 - December 31, 2027
Current project:
01.01.2025 - 31.12.2027
OTHER PARTIES INVOLVED
not available
MORE INFORMATION
project website
not available
DEVELOPMENT POLICY IDENTIFIERS
Convention on Biological Diversity
Significant secondary goal
gender equality
main goal
Democratic and inclusive governance
Significant secondary goal
Inclusion and Empowerment of People with Disabilities
Significant secondary goal
CRS KEY
15170 Women's rights organizations/movements, state institutions
EVALUATION
not available
PROJECT DESCRIPTION (EN)
In rural Amazonia, women from traditional communities, such as quilombolas, are seen as guardians of the rainforest, as they contribute to its protection through their knowledge, culture and sustainable production practices. Through their traditional practices, quilombolas promote the protection of water, biodiversity and agrobiodiversity, as well as good practices in the use and management of natural resources.
In the urban context, collectors of recycled materials play an important role in adapting and mitigating climate change, reducing the need to extract natural resources by recycling materials such as paper, plastic and metal. Their work can include implementing sustainable waste management practices and promoting the circular economy in the territories.
The participation of these women, considering all their diversity, is key to the Just Transition. Despite this potential, women's equal social, economic and political participation has so far been insufficient. This reflects a reality in which Brazilian women suffer a high degree of structural discrimination in terms of income and political participation, as well as a high risk of gender-based violence.
The Ministry of Women anchors strategic elements for gender equality in policymaking and implements strategies to strengthen quilombola women and collectors of recycling materials in their equal social, political and economic participation.
The project uses a multi-level approach to tackle structural, institutional and social obstac
