Joanita Babirye

Joanita Babirye Joanita Babirye is an Ugandan environmental and natural resources scientist. She is the Co-founder at Girls For Climate Action, a movement that is putting young women and girls at the forefront of climate action. She also trains young greenpreneurs to start green innovations and scale. She serves as the UN Women youth Action Coalition leader under Generation Equality on Feminist Action For Climate Justice and at the same time advocates for Youth inclusion in the climate policies and action planning for her country and on the continent. Joanita is an ardent climate justice advocate and also serves as an ambassador at the Africa Youth Climate Hub. Quotes "A world where the voices of the marginalized actively inform policy, decision making and action."Joanita speaking on her dream "We needed to bridge the gap to make women access different resources easily, and also try to bring the concept of why it’s happening and their solution."Joanita on gender based violence against women and empowering them through climate activism ".....What we’re trying to say is, how can we break down and dismantle these systems that are limiting women from being part of this conversation for decision-making processes? Joanita on the need for more involvement from women Wowen really have to be involved in other economic activities that they could gain even more from or become independent of.