Promoting gender equality and combatting climate change are two of the greatest challenges of our time. Linking these goals advances both.

The Resource-ful Empowerment Project was co-designed between grassroots women’s rights activists and a Harvard professor to address the pressing need to make women equal partners in the Just Transition.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) produces nearly half of the minerals that drive “clean energy” technologies. The World Bank estimates that demand for these minerals will grow 500% in the next three decades. In the informal mines where these resources are mined, women comprise 50% of the work force but are systematically denied equal pay or leadership roles while also facing high levels of sexual exploitation.

The Resource-ful Empowerment curriculum uses an evidence-based and scaleable approach to improve human rights, gender equity and environmental justice in some of the world’s most fragile places, centering women as leaders and change-makers.