Author: Bram
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Webinar: Energy, finance and community business – where is the money?
Date: November 30, 2020 Time: 13:00 – 14:00 CET Location: Virtual event. Register here. (CLOSED) This IIED Debates event will ask how can we get energy finance to small community businesses in sub-Saharan Africa? About this Event Electricity drives economic development. But many small community-level businesses and smallholder farmers in rural parts of sub-Saharan…
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Webinar: Launch of the Gender and Energy Innovation Facility in Tanzania
Do you work in Tanzania? Do you have an innovative idea to address gender challenges in energy access and/or clean cooking? Submit your Expression of Interest to participate in the newly launched Gender and Energy Innovation Facility. Successful candidates get to participate in an online-three-day-bootcamp to generate and refine ideas, have the chance to get…
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ENERGIA, the African Development Bank, and the Climate Investment Funds join efforts to strengthen gender in the energy sector in Africa
ENERGIA, together with the African Development Bank and the Climate Investment Funds have jointly launched four country briefs on November, 24 during the virtual event “Gender and Sustainable Energy Access in Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda”. The briefs contribute to increasing data availability on gender and energy and provide insights for future gender sensitive…
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Asia-Pacific Regional Workshop: Mainstreaming gender across climate change and disaster statistics
Date: November 23, 2020 Time: 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Location: Virtual event. UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific invite you to participate in a regional workshop…
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Global launch of the Gender and Energy Country Briefs for Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda
Date: November 24, 2020 Time: 13:00-14:30 GMT | 14:00-15:30 CET | 16:00-17:30 EAT Location: Virtual event. Register here. The African Development Bank, the Climate Investment Funds and ENERGIA are pleased to invite you to the Global launch of the Gender and Energy Country Briefs for Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda on November 24,…
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New “Women in Clean Cooking” Mentorship Program Opens Call for Applications
In order to advance the role of women as agents of change in society and promote best practices within the sector, the Clean Cooking Alliance (CCA), Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) and the Global Women’s Network for Energy Transition (GWNET), are teaming up to launch a mentorship program for women working in the area of…
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Vacancy: Project Manager (senior) ENERGIA Women’s Economic Empowerment
Region: Worldwide Office: The Hague Hours: 32 Application deadline: December 7, 2020 About ENERGIA Established in 1996, ENERGIA, the International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy, is an informal network that brings together institutions and individuals, to work towards a shared vision that “women and men have equal and equitable access to, and control…
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Further steps are needed to ensure a gender-just energy transition
For the shift from fossil fuels towards renewable energies to be genuinely sustainable on both the environmental and social levels, it needs to be just, to leave no one behind during the process. Climate change impacts men and women differently. As the main caretakers of families and households, and providers of food security in many…
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Four-part webinar series on Gender and energy by FES Climate and Energy Project in Asia
The FES Climate and Energy Project in Asia hosted a four-part webinar series on gender and energy from August to October 2020. It was designed for FES country offices and partners working on the energy transition, with in total 80 participants from across the region. This series sought to provide insights on how a…
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Webinar: More and Better Jobs for Women in STEM and the Energy Sector in Pakistan
Date: Nov. 5, 2020 Time: 6 PM Pakistan Time Location: Virtual event. RSVP & ADD TO CALENDAR. For non-World Bank Staff, please email your RSVPs here “If the young women of tomorrow are to take advantage of emerging economic opportunities, the foundation for their STEM careers needs to be laid today.” Getting more women…
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Webinar: How can subsidies accelerate universal energy access?
Date and Time: Date: Thursday, 22 October 2020 | 2-3.15pm (BST) Location: Online, via Zoom To Register follow this link. Access to affordable, reliable and clean energy remains one of the greatest development challenges. This event on Thursday, 22 October 2020 will explore the role that subsidies as a form of public finance can play…