Climate Caucus Council

Published purpose

This 26-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Climate Caucus Council, in partnership with The Feminist Campaign School, will achieve this by encouraging women and girls to run for and lead in elected decision-making positions and identifying the barriers to equitable and safe work at elected tables. It will assist in preparing women in BC and Alberta to serve in local government and make recommendations for policy makers to reduce barriers faced by women to ensure women can lead. At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to addressing systemic barriers by advancing inclusive policies and practices, increasing networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change, and supporting positive distribution of authority, voices, and decision-making power to support women’s equality. This project will help advance women’s post-pandemic recovery by addressing systemic barriers to women’s local political participation identified by measuring the following: • Reasons for women not to seek to re-offer after serving in an elected local seat. • Experiences of women elected. • Responses that municipal parties and their leaders make to publicly posed questions, so they can win and lead. • The (diminished) presence of sexist media coverage of women in politics. • Effectiveness of their collaboration with The Feminist Campaign School partner to run campaign school workshops for all women incumbents who intend to run in 2022 in BC.