The SRHR and Climate Justice Coalition is an open and inclusive space that brings together a diversity of partners and aims to mobilize their collective strengths to advance SRHR and gender equality from a climate justice approach.
This global coalition is currently co-convened by the Asia-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW), Women Deliver, Ipas and the Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) but its coordination may change over time as the coalition work evolves. The main role of the convener organizations is to serve as the organizers and connectors of the coalition. The co-conveners arrange and facilitate coalition meetings as necessary, share information with coalition members, serve as the primary points of contact for the coalition, and manage the coalition advocacy and action plans.
The coalition emerged from the need for a space where we can break down silos between the SRHR and the Climate Justice organizations and movements, facilitate knowledge sharing, jointly mobilize, and amplify the voices and priorities of grassroots organizations, led by women, youth, girls, the LGBTQIA+ community, and Indigenous people from the Global South, particularly those most affected by climate change and without continuous access to high-quality SRH services.
Members of this Coalition include representatives of women’s rights, feminist, SRHR and climate justice organizations, movements, advocacy groups, and research and academic institutions.
In July 2021, the SRHR & CJ Coalition submitted a joint commitment at the Generation Equality Forum (GEF), a global gathering for gender equality convened by UN Women and co-hosted by the governments of Mexico and France. The coalition committed to advocate to advance the GEF Action Coalitions commitments on bodily autonomy and SRHR, and feminist action for climate justice for an initial period of 2 years, with the possibility of extending to 5 years. This forum brought together governments, civil society, youth-led groups, UN agencies and the private sector to secure commitments for gender equality.
The work of the SRHR & CJ Coalition is guided by the Terms of Reference (ToR) that have been drafted by the Coalition co-conveners in consultation with the member organizations. This document describes the Coalition purpose and objectives, guiding principles and structure.
The purpose of the SRHR and Climate Justice Coalition is to advocate for SRHR and climate change policies, programs, and funding mechanisms that help advance gender equality, human rights, and climate justice.
Document the impact of climate change in the access to SRHR, identify gaps in research, programs, funding, and services, and generate and disseminate new evidence to relevant stakeholders. We will use our network to identify communities or groups where sexual and reproductive health has been especially adversely impacted by the climate crisis and seek to provide platforms or where possible opportunities for advocacy for affected individuals, where this is requested.
Create collective policy recommendations to influence key climate and SRHR advocacy spaces and international conferences, to advocate for the integration of SRHR in climate policies, programs, and financing mechanisms and to advocate for policy makers and healthcare providers to include the impact of the climate crisis on sexual and reproductive health and equitable access to healthcare in planning and programing.
Design campaigns and advocacy strategies in partnership with feminist, indigenous, youth and grassroots movements. We seek to situate our area of concern, SRH, within a bigger vision of a healthier and more equitable world.
