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Webinar: Demystifying the way investors look at the world with Calvert Impact Capital
Time: Jul 24, 2019 09:30 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada) Registration: To register for this webinar please go to this link. Incorporating gender into investment analysis might be the quickest route to better performing investments and a more equitable and sustainable world. This webinar, led by People-Centered Accelerator partner Calvert Impact Capital,…
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Alliance Launches 2019 Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Award
The Clean Cooking Alliance (Alliance) is pleased to announce that applications for the 2019 Woman Entrepreneur of the Year (WEYA) Award are now open. This annual award recognizes outstanding female leaders in the household energy sector who are advancing clean cooking solutions in emerging markets. The 2019 Woman Entrepreneur of the Year will receive:…
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Empowering Women to Reduce an Energy Utility’s Commercial Losses
MORONI, June 18, 2019―Globally, the traditional response to electricity theft is to disconnect users, prosecute, and undertake vigorous meter audits. This helps to recover some losses but doesn’t address the root cause. In Comoros, the World Bank’s ESMAP Africa Gender and Energy Program and national energy utility Société Nationale de l’Electricité des Comores (SONELEC)…
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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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Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Initiative WomenConnect Challenge
The gender digital divide Digital technology is revolutionizing the word by providing access to information, finance and networks — all of which are necessary for women to reach their full economic potential and create more self-reliant communities. Today, 1.7 billion women in low- and middle-income countries still do not own mobile phones. The internet user…
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The challenge of scaling-up energy access in least developed countries
As shown in the latest UN Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7) tracking report published last week, we are making some progress towards the goal of universal energy access by 2030. The number of people without access to electricity is now down to 840 million (compared to 1.2 billion in 2010). However, progress has been…
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NEW: 2019 Tracking SDG7 Report
Despite significant progress in recent years, the world is falling short of meeting the global energy targets set in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) for 2030. Ensuring affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all by 2030 remains possible but will require more sustained efforts, particularly to reach some of the world’s…
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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…
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Energy access means jobs in Zambia: new data
Governments and donors in sub-Saharan Africa that adopt coordinated approaches to electrifying rural communities using distributed renewables can count on meaningful job creation, according to recent data from REEEP in Zambia. REEEP, which manages the Swedish-funded Beyond the Grid Fund Zambia (BGFZ), is so far supporting four private decentralized renewable energy companies in the southern…
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New policy briefs on affordable and clean energy show progress must be accelerated to ‘leave no one behind’
Governments, businesses and civil society organizations have made tremendous strides in bringing affordable and clean energy to more people in recent years, but this progress has been largely uneven and must be accelerated in order to leave no one behind, says a new collection of policy briefs compiled by the multi-stakeholder SDG 7 Technical Advisory…
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Gender in the transition to energy for all: From evidence to inclusive policies
ENERGIA, in collaboration with nine research teams, is delighted to release a new report “Gender in the transition to energy for all: From evidence to inclusive policies” presenting a synthesis of the evidence generated by the five-year research programme. Our Gender and Energy Research Programme, supported by the UK’s Department for International Development (DfID), as…
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The Global Women’s Network for the Energy Transition launches its newly created Women in Energy Expert Platform
Global Women’s Network for the Energy Transition (GWNET), a non-profit membership association working with women energy experts globally, launched its newly created Women in Energy Expert Platform at the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue on 10th April 2019, which brought together more than 2000 experts and 60% women speakers. The brand new platform has been…