WOMIN AFRICAN WOMEN CLIMATE CHANGE DAY LAUNCH

Women call for gender inclusion in environmental adaptation decision-making

The Green Development Advocates was one of the venues of the Womin initiated African Women Climate Change Day organised Wednesday April 15 2026 across the entire continent.

It was a day to relay the worries of the Womenfolk in Africa against the exploitation of the natural resources of the continent by multinational companies, funded largely by international financial institutions like the World Bank and the African Development bank.

Womin has for three years now led a campaign inviting civil society organizations to join in the advocacy for the denunciation of initiatives by governments to entertain development projects that are focused mostly in generating more profits for the project management than for the interests of the people to whom these projects are intended.

The African Women Climate Change Day comes in to reinforce the campaign denouncing the seizure, expropriation, exploitation and wanton depletion of African lands for foreign interests while the people wallow in continuous poverty.

GDA hosted the event through a workshop intended to enlighten local community women associations on the Cameroon National Adaptation Plan on Climate Change about to be revised.

This falls in line with the African Women Climate Justice Day call for women inclusion into all the policy decisions relating to climate change. That call was re-echoed in the workshop by the women participants from the affected regions of large-scale extractive projects in the Cameroon forest regions who called for environmental justice to be practised first within the continent with the respective governments promoting gender inclusion in decision-making on environmental adaptation plans as well as ensuring that  Free Prior and Informed Consent is respected in the elaboration of environmental resilience policies.