a-project: ENERGIA Phase 5
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Kopernik develops impact tracker technology catalogue
A catalogue of affordable, simple tools to help you collect data, communicate with clients and measure impact What if nonprofits and social enterprises had an affordable way to report real-time, large-scale data on their social impact? This question inspired Kopernik to create this catalogue. The Impact Tracker Technology (ITT) catalogue features a compilation of…
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#WESHINE: Sharing the story of light, hope and opportunity
Solar Sister is excited to share the story of light, hope, and opportunity in Tanzania. Women + Energy: WESHINE is a campaign to raise awareness about the benefits of energy access and economic opportunity for women. 6 video portraits of 6 women entrepreneurs who are bringing clean energy to their communities… and the unexpected ways light transforms…
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Partnerships to scale up energy delivery
ENERGIA’s Women’s Economic Empowerment Programme works with partners in seven countries to strengthen and empower micro and small scale women entrepreneurs who deliver clean and renewable technologies. An early lesson has been that if the delivery of technologies really is to be scaled up, partnerships and agreements with other parties such as community groups, government institutions,…
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Selling clean energy technologies pays off!
Kopernik’s Wonder Women initiative grew out of a pilot programme in West Indonesia with 50 female entrepreneurs. Their model is now being scaled tenfold thanks to a grant from ENERGIA. Over the next two years, 488 potential entrepreneurs will receive technical, leadership and business training to help them become renewable energy entrepreneurs. Once their business is…
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From basket weavers to salt farmers: the women leading a renewables revolution
The Guardian has published an article on women entrepreneurship in the energy sector, featuring ENERGIA partners Solar Sister: “From female basket weavers in Tanzania to the women farming salt in Gujarat, social enterprises are helping women become clean energy entrepreneurs” Continua reading the article at The Guardian International Hilaria Paschal is one of the…
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Introduction to Solar Sister
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ICRW assesses Solar Sister’s women-entrepreneur model
This blog was originally posted by ENERGIA partner Solar Sister. Solar Sister was founded on the premise that investing in women is not only the right thing to do, it’s the smart thing to do. The recent assessment by International Center for Research on Women on Solar Sister’s unique women-entrepreneur model highlights the ways in which gender equality, economic empowerment + clean…
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Energy giant TOTAL and women entrepreneurs join forces
In Senegal, the average electricity access is 57 percent, in rural areas it is 27. In the regions of Tambacounda and Kedougou, Eastern Senegal, where ENERGIA is working with local partner GVEP, the percentages of access are as low as nine and four. Delivery of off-grid solar products is therefore critical to improving the livelihoods…
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In conversation with Sheila Oparaocha
Sheila Oparaocha, Programme Manager of ENERGIA and a member of the Power for All Steering Committee talks about the critical role of women in achieving energy access in an interview with Power for All. This interview originally appeared on the Power for All website, for the full transcript please visit their website: http://www.powerforall.org/blog/2016/3/28/in-conversation-with-sheila-oparaocha
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ENERGIA celebrates International Women’s Day all year round
For ENERGIA, every day is International Women’s Day! Together with eight partner organizations, we support over 3,000 women in seven countries in Africa and Asia, to become empowered entrepreneurs. One of these women is Mrs. Kandé, who owns a dairy production business in Kolda, South Senegal. Mrs. Kandé started her dairy production in 2002. Despite…