Bridging the Climate-Gender-Health Nexus:

A Funder's Starter Guide

Propel the Movement: Coalition Building and Advocacy

The Challenge

The Climate-SRHR movement remains fragmented across sectors and regions, limiting organizations’ ability to influence and shape the global discourse. Limited opportunities for knowledge sharing and participation in global forums hinders collaborative efforts to advance SRHR priorities within climate policy discussions. This fragmentation and restrained funding environment often keeps advocates from low- and middle- income countries from participating in key global forums where they can contribute to and influence the discourse.

The Opportunity

Coalitions and other convening organizations build powerful movements. By connecting stakeholders across sectors, these umbrella organizations facilitate knowledge sharing globally and strengthen advocacy efforts through shared messaging and aligned goals. Building coalitions and amplifying advocates’ voices, especially those from the most affected communities, are critical for a successful climate-SRHR movement. Investments in strengthening coalitions and opportunities for advocacy result in robust and responsive policies at all levels.

Recommended Investment Strategies

  • Promote and/or join existing coalitions and networks working at the intersection of climate and SRHR.
  • Support groups to organize and sponsor side events at key global moments to exchange knowledge and facilitate cross-sector collaboration.
  • Incorporate the voices of climate-SRHR advocates on panels and in group discussions when hosting events at key global moments.
  • Finance organizations or advocates to produce resource materials such as messaging guides to enhance advocacy and influence at key global moments.
  • Fund travel for advocates to attend key events and conferences and influence global policy discussions.

Travel Grants

Rapid response travel grants are essential for ensuring advocates can travel to key meetings for climate-SRHR advocacy work. While donors recognize the value of including voices from the most vulnerable communities in various policy and climate financing decisions, traditional funding mechanisms typically cannot support rapid, small-scale funding requests for unanticipated travel opportunities.

Dedicated, flexible travel funds enable grassroots participation in national and global health, gender, and climate policy forums as well as annual COP conferences, which is essential for ensuring progress at the climate-SRHR nexus at national and global levels.

Partner Examples

*Current or previous Panorama Global grantee

SRHR and Climate Justice Coalition

A multi-sectoral advocacy platform facilitating learning and reflection among members.

Location: Global network convened by several INGOs

About: The SRHR and Climate Justice Coalition is a platform for connectivity, learning, and organization across CSOs. The organizational and individual members come from all over the world, and the membership excludes donor entities to provide a safe space for collegial dialogue and to enable advocacy strategizing. The co-conveners facilitate coalition meetings on a monthly basis, enable information sharing among coalition members, serve as the primary points of contact for the coalition, and manage the co-creation of coalition advocacy and action plans for various global and regional events. The Coalition members also coordinate coverage of sessions and meet at high-level events such as COP. The Coalition is convened by Asia-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women, Women Deliver, Ipas, and Women’s Environment and Development Organization.

Climate-SRHR Spotlight: The Coalition publishes advocacy briefs and other publications, including Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: Integral to the Climate and Health Response, and hosts events at COPs and other global fora.

Margaret Pyke Trust (MPT)*

A unique global non-governmental organisation embedded in the human health, biodiversity and climate sectors.

Location: Registered charity in the U.K., working globally

About: Margaret Pyke Trust has decades of experience connecting voluntary, rights-based family planning services and broader SRHR with biodiversity and wildlife conservation and climate change. MPT is a member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), with Observer Status of both the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and is accredited by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to include gender and SRHR considerations into policies and program financing. Without their work, this critical conversation would be nearly absent at key global moments.

Climate-SRHR Spotlight:

The Global Climate and Health Alliance (GHCA)

Mobilizing the global health community on the climate crisis, health and equity.

Location: Fiscally sponsored in the U.S.

About: GCHA works at the forefront of a growing global movement of health professionals and health and development organisations dedicated to driving climate action to promote a healthy, equitable, and sustainable future for all. As a global network of 200+ organisations spanning every continent, GCHA member and partner organisations represent more than 46 million health workers globally.

Climate-SRHR Spotlight: In 2024 GCHA participated in or co-hosted gender-related discussions at the World Health Assembly, UN General Assembly, and COP29, leveraging their network of health professionals and global health advocates, who have credible voices in the policy space.

Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)

Promoting and protecting human rights, gender equality, and the integrity of the environment.

Location: Registered 501(c)(3) in the U.S.

About: As a steadfast advocate for SRHR, WEDO champions SRHR in global policy spaces, coordinating and contributing to women’s rights caucuses within the Sustainable Development Goals, the UN Commission on the Status of Women, and UN climate negotiations through its official membership in the Women and Gender Constituency. WEDO builds coalitions to address the gender dimensions of environmental issues, from land ownership to disaster risk reduction.

Climate-SRHR Spotlight: As a co-convener of the SRHR and Climate Justice Coalition, WEDO consistently amplifies reproductive justice as a core feminist demand, ensuring it remains central in the fight for climate action and gender equality:

  • At COP29, WEDO contributed to the Women and Gender Constituency’s efforts to renew the Ten-Year Lima Work Programme on gender, providing a clear roadmap to creating a Gender Action Plan towards COP30 in 2025.
  • In 1994, WEDO led the women’s caucus at the UN Conference on Population and Development, where governments committed to a 20-year plan to expand investment in women’s reproductive health, ensure universal primary education, and advance secondary education for girls.
Women Deliver

A global advocacy organization guided by one end result: that every girl and woman exercises her rights to full bodily autonomy and health.

Location: Registered 501(c)(3) in the U.S.

About: Women Deliver actively engages in global climate, gender, and health spaces, leveraging its access to key platforms such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the World Health Organization (WHO), and the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). This includes influencing UNFCCC Member State climate resilience strategies and driving action on climate topics such as adaptation, finance, loss and damage, and the UNFCCC Gender Action Plan.

Climate-SRHR Spotlight: Through these spaces, Women Deliver advocates for the stronger integration of gender, human rights, health, and SRHR into policy and decision-making, with a particular focus on adolescent girls and climate justice including:

The International Youth Alliance for Family Planning (IYAFP)*

Strengthening youth advocates for SRHR and climate justice.

Location: Registered 501(c)(3) in the U.S. supporting CBOs in the Global South

About: The International Youth Alliance on Family Planning is a global network of young human rights defenders dedicated to advancing sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice.

Climate-SRHR Spotlight: At COP28, IYAFP launched the Youth Declaration on SRHR and Climate Justice and since then have been recruiting like-minded partners from climate and other social justice sectors to sign on to support the unfulfilled goal of universal access to SRHR.

Pita Putih Indonesia (PPI)*

Championing maternal health and climate resilience across Indonesia.

Location: Registered NGO in Indonesia

About: Pita Putih Indonesia has a nationwide network of members and volunteers who work to promote SRHR in the country. Policymakers, healthcare professionals, and researchers are all part of the network, implementing programs in support of government policies and providing policy recommendations to the Ministry of Health and other line ministries. Their work with various government ministries and agencies as well as public health and medical professional associations has influenced policy dialogues and agenda-setting for research and data collection that keep the needs of young people at the forefront.

Climate-SRHR Spotlight: PPI collaborates with national agencies to raise awareness about the devastating impacts of climate change on maternal and newborn health. Their research and analysis has provided crucial evidence to government ministries, health professionals associations, youth seminars, and various webinars and convenings. These advocacy efforts have resulted in the inclusion of maternal, reproductive, and child health in Indonesia’s climate and health policy.

Population Institute (PI)

Improving the health and well-being of people and the planet by supporting policies and programs that promote SRHR.

Location: Registered 501(c)(3) in the U.S.

About: The Population Institute partners with researchers, practitioners, and advocates across the world to elevate innovative and impactful approaches to sustainable development challenges. This includes conducting research and analysis of trends in population and SRHR and the intersection with climate change resilience. This work informs their strategic communications with policymakers and other decision makers to support multi-sectoral policies and programs.

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