a-project: Empowering Women, Engendering Energy (EWEE)
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A growth path model: An entrepreneurship growth pathway for women in last-mile communities
This report aims to create a theoretical framework to identify key stages in last-mile women entrepreneurs to formulate a growth path to develop latent subsistence entrepreneurs into transformative ones. It is organized into 7 sections. Section 1 contains an introduction into the project, the rationale, and the scope and limitations of the project. Section 2 describes…
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Strategic Plan
With this strategy document, we—the ENERGIA network—share what we aim to achieve between 2018 – 2021. We also present how we intend to capitalise on our strengths to scale our collective impact, how we will improve our weaknesses and how we will find solutions to persistent and emerging issues around sustainable energy and equitable energy…
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A call to action to scale up clean cooking at the 2020 High Level Political Forum
At the start of the Decade of Action towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and on the occasion of the High Level Political Forum, ENERGIA/Hivos and the Ministry of Kenya, together with key partners, hosted a virtual side event to take stock of the efforts needed to enhance the ambitions in the clean cooking…
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How do grid and off-grid systems enhance or restrict gender equality?
The following article has been written by Dr. Magi Matinga. Dr. Matinga works on modern cleaner energy access, transitions, and gender mainstreaming, focusing on research, policy analysis, project and programme development. She was a member of the research team who studied factors that enhance and restrict women’s empowerment through electrification. The findings of this study…
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ENERGIA News: An interview with… Sheila Oparaocha
Sheila Oparaocha has over twenty of working experience in the gender and energy sector. She holds a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Veterinary Medicine and a Master’s Degree in Gender and Development Planning. Sheila is the overall manager of ENERGIA’s international programmes and also provides technical support to ENERGIA’s activities on women’s entrepreneurship development,…
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ENERGIA: ‘We operate beyond the tarred road’
One day she is standing in one of The Hague’s packed trams to get to the office. Another day, she is up to her ankles in the mud talking to a Senegalese farmer, discussing with her how to start a small shop to sell solar lights and home systems. But on both these days, Sheila…
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Kenyan Ministry of Energy launches first national Gender Policy in the energy sector ever
In 2015 all United Nations Member States adopted 17 global goals which aim to end poverty, improve health and education, promote equality, conserve our planet’s resources and boost economic growth, and committed to meeting specific targets by 2030. As part of its commitment to achieving these objectives, Kenya’s Ministry of Energy launched its Gender…
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Kenya’s Ministry of Energy Launches One-of-a-kind Gender Policy
Nairobi, Kenya – 1st November 2019 – The Ministry of Energy has today launched its Gender Policy. This Policy aims to raise the level of gender awareness, change attitudes and inculcate an engendered work culture among staff in the energy sector. This Policy is the first such legislative instrument on the African continent. Energy…
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Climate Action Summit 2019 – Key takeaways from the Energy Transition Track: Clean Cooking, Energy and Health
On 22 September 2019, during the Energy Transition Track: Clean Cooking, Energy and Health session, prior to the United Nations Climate Action Summit, government and private sector representatives, local authorities and members from international organizations met to discuss concrete actions towards a just energy transition in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to…
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Cigarettes can teach us a lesson when it comes to clean cooking
By Thabit Mikidadi, From sexy and cool to a sign of bad choices and unhealthy habits; conversations around cigarette smoking are starting to shift thanks to decisive campaigns that have reduced its usage after many health-related complications were attributed to its use. The use of cigarettes has been declining worldwide especially in the west…
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Key Takeaways from the Women Deliver Conference 2019 on gender equality
World leaders, influencers, advocates, academics, activists, and journalists gathered last week in Vancouver at the Women Deliver Conference, the world’s largest conference on gender equality and the health, rights, and well-being of girls and women, to discuss new knowledge on gender and promote solutions to achieve a more gender equal world. In particular, the…
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Centre for Rural Technology, Nepal (CRT/N) awarded with HONORARY PRIZE by “Adaptation at Scale Prize Project”
Centre for Rural Technology, Nepal (CRT/N) has been awarded with “The Adaptation at Scale Prize” on 23rd May 2019 in recognition for the promotion of innovative and unique Hydraulic Ram Pump technology to improve the capacity of Nepal’s vulnerable communities to adapt climate change impacts. Mr Ganesh Ram Shrestha, Executive Director of CRT/N received…