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SDG 17About This Program
This program, led by the Ewha Global Institute for Sustainable Partnership and Empowerment (EGISE) at Ewha Womans University, integrates the SDGs and climate crisis response from a gender perspective. It aims to address the climate crisis–currently one of the most critical challenges to achieving the SDGs–by connecting and integrating gender as a key variable.
Core Activities
Gender and Climate Global Fellowship
Provides a women’s leadership development program for female public officials, women scientists from developing countries, NGO leaders from women's university, and young women climate activists. It strengthens leadership and expertise in gender-responsive climate policy, climate finance, planetary health, climate AI, and gender data analysis through a global fellowship and field-based intensive programs in ODA regions, drawing on Ewha Womans University’s interdisciplinary strengths.
Gender & Climate Living Lab
Supports climate and maternal health programs, including pregnancy support, heatwave response, and climate-health monitoring. It also advances women’s energy transition initiatives such as clean cooking, solar microgrids, and women’s entrepreneurship, while strengthening climate-resilient communities through programs in water resources, agriculture, and disaster response capacity building.
Global Gender-Climate Policy Hub
Serves as a gender-based climate policy think tank by conducting research on environmental health inequalities and gender and climate vulnerability. It develops global gender-climate indicators and supports participation in the Conference of the Parties (COP) and other international climate policy forums.
Women Youth Climate Leadership Network
Provides platforms for young people to connect policy and the international stage through leadership networks and partnerships, and expands youth engagement through initiatives such as the Global Women Climate Leaders Forum and youth climate policy hackathons.
How It Works
BGI
Networking with major international organizations, and supporting compliance with and alignment to international norms and standards of international organizations.
Partners
Connecting key stakeholders, jointly operating education and capacity-building programs, and linking private-sector technology and expertise.
Universities
Linking with key research networks of research-centered universities, and supporting the joint operation of various youth programs.
Youth Organizations
Supporting the joint operation of diverse youth programs and the development of youth-focused initiatives, while connecting with global networks.
Civil Society
Supporting locally driven leader development programs, expanding citizen participation, and engaging in the identification of local needs.
Expected Impact
SDG Contributions
Global Gender-Climate Policy Expansion
Achievement of the SDGs through the integration of gender and climate change response, promotion of global scale-up and mutual growth of startups, cultivation of 1,000 women climate leaders, and support for participation in global climate governance
Academic & Scientific Policy Development
Research linking gender inequality and climate response, expansion of Planetary Health research, and development of Climate–Health data
Nurturing Women and Next-Generation Youth Leaders
Establishment of sustainable development models and strengthening community resilience by nurturing local youth and women leaders
Roadmap
- Declaration of the Ewha Gender & Climate Initiative
- Signing of MOUs with global partners
- Launch of the Fellowship Program
- Launch of the Living Lab Pilot Project
- Convening of a Global Forum
- Establishment of a policy platform
- Establishment of a Global Gender Climate Hub