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Kopernik’s Wonder Women in Eastern Indonesia
Kopernik is very happy to announce the expansion of their Wonder Women initiative in eastern Indonesia, which will engage more than 500 women as clean energy micro-social-entrepreneurs over the next three years. This expansion is made possible by support from ENERGIA, funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland, the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation…
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Women in Senegal to benefit from new opportunities in the energy market
GVEP International and SEM Fund are joining forces to increase women’s participation in the energy market in Senegal and make sustainable energy available to the poorest communities. Over the next three years, 250 women-run micro and small enterprises in the regions of Tambacounda and Kedougou in eastern Senegal will receive tailored mentoring, business and financial support…
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Call for Proposals Gender and Advocacy programme – CLOSED
ENERGIA invites proposals from its National Focal Points, its WEE programme partners and other organisations, to form consortia to implement its gender and energy advocacy programme. The United Nations General Assembly declared the decade 2014-2024 as the Decade of Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL). The first two years of this decade wil focus on a…
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Cooking with Gas: Why women in developing countries want LPG and how they can get it
ENERGIA developed a report for the World LP Gas Association, investigating the need for access to clean cooking energy for women and girls. The World Energy Outlook estimates that almost 1.3 billion people living mostly in developing Asia or Sub-Saharan Africa and in rural areas are without access to electricity. Reports estimate that another 2.6…
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Update on Request For Proposals: Gender & Energy Research Programme (Last Updated: 08-10-2014) – CLOSED
The invitations for the development of full proposals under the Gender and Energy Research Programme were sent on 15 September. Three consortia were selected for each of the 5 themes. Information relevant to the development of full proposals by the selected consortia for the Gender and Energy Research Programme. Important notices and answers to requests…
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2015 Ashden International Awards Call for entries
Are you empowering women and girls through sustainable energy? 2015 Ashden International Awards open for entries The Ashden Awards – the world’s leading green energy awards scheme – is seeking entries for its 2015 International Awards. Ashden particularly wants to hear from enterprises or programmes that are providing sustainable energy to women and girls (for…
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Global Alliance Gender & Investment Consultancy
The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves seeks the support of a qualified consultant to promote the integration of gender considerations into expected capacity building projects of clean cookstoves and fuel companies. Please see the attached Terms of Reference for details and application instructions. Feel free to forward to anyone who might be interested. Applications and…
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Global and Regional Experiences of Electricity Utilities and Social/Gender Issues
As you may know, ESMAP has partnered with the World Bank’s Social Development team to develop a report on Gender and Electricity Infrastructure. The research is focusing on the linkages between gender and social issues on Electricity Infrastructure (Generation, Transmission and Distribution) through land and labor impacts. There is a need within this report, to have…
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Request for Expression(s) of Interest – ENERGIA Gender & Energy Programme
Deadline for submission: 25 August 2014 Leusden, 4th August, 2014 – ENERGIA, the International Network on Gender & Energy invites Expressions of Interests (EOIs) from qualified research teams to participate in its Gender and Energy Research programme. In line with its commitment to the Sustainable Energy for All Initiative and with the financial assistance of the…
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Greenway Grameen: innovations in cooking
Neha Juneja showing the Greenway Smart Cookstove at the Ashden Awards Ceremony Photo: ENERGIA ENERGIA interviewed Neha Juneja, co-founder and CEO of Greenway Grameen, at the Ashden Awards 2014. She is an industrial engineer and has founded Greenway Grameen with two partners: a chemical engineer and a mechanical engineer. They started designing clean cookstoves in 2010,…
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Fully Charged: Sustainable Energy for Women and Girls
Dame Jenni Murray hosting the afternoon panel at the Ashden Conference “Fully Charged: Sustainable Energy for Women and Girls” Photo: ENERGIA Every year, the Ashden Awards recognize and support some of the world’s best green trailblazers offering sustainable energy solutions. The awards allow organizations to accelerate their work through an International Support Programme. This year, the event…
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Sustainable Energy for All Forum
UN Secretary-General to host first Sustainable Energy for All Forum, 4 – 6 June 2014 Ministers, leaders from business and civil society to assess progress, chart way to reach targets on energy access, efficiency, renewables. >> Download SE4All_Forum Press release