Women, climate action and education: building women’s leadership in collaborative action for green transformation through education in South Africa

This project will engage women's rights activists in South Africa to work with the education sector on action to address climate injustices. The project will conduct participatory research in three communities currently affected by droughts, floods and a warming ocean, where members of the project team have worked with women for the past decade on strategies to prevent violence against women. The proposed project will build on these relationships to explore women's insights on education issues, climate change and environmental degradation, recognising the crucial role of local knowledge in understanding these issues, their impacts and how to address them, and to support similar collaborative action for green transformation through education. The project's focus will be on building women's leadership in action centred on processes to hold national and provincial government to account for promises on climate justice and education and to support initiatives for international collaboration in these areas.

Research Team: Dr Helen Longlands, University College London; Professor Relebohile Moletsane, University of KwaZulu-Natal; Professor Elaine Unterhalter, University College London; Dr Rosie Peppin Vaughan, University College London