Author: Tjarda Muller
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Insightful discussions on women entrepreneurs and sustainable energy held in Gabon
More than 100 women energy entrepreneurs and experts in energy policy, financing, and capacity building recently gathered in Libreville, Gabon, for the Women Entrepreneurs and Sustainable Energy Workshop. Their aim was to identify the main challenges that hinder the establishment, growth, and development of women-led micro and medium size enterprises serving in the energy market,…
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Power for All: In conversation with… Jane Ebinger, SEforALL
Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) is developing an action-plan for a public-private initiative focused on gender equality and women’s empowerment and it wants your input. This according to Jane Ebinger, SEforALL’s director of policy, who had a wide-ranging conversation with Power for All, during which she also highlighted the critical need for supporting human capacity more broadly…
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Decentralized Renewables: Empowering Women As Sustainable Energy Leaders
POWER FOR ALL FACT SHEET Energy poverty is not gender-neutral: women bear the heaviest burden. Distributed renewable energy can not only empower women economically and socially as end users, but the sector itself can hugely benefit by integrating women across the value chain as designers, educators, trainers, managers, and entrepreneurs. Learn more.
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Global Tracking Framework, energy access and gender research discussed at Asia Clean Energy Forum
At the Deep Dive workshop on the Global Tracking Framework (GTF) and Energy Access and Gender Research co-organised by ENERGIA (read more), Vivien Foster (World Bank) and Kim Roseberry (United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific) presented results and trends from the recently released GTF report 2017. The GTF report is…
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Breaking down barriers in clean energy entrepreneurs’ access to finance
Financing is a big challenge in expanding energy access to the last mile, and women entrepreneurs face even larger bottlenecks than men when engaging in this field. A lot of the difficulties are related to non-financial barriers. These include, among others, the legal and regulatory environment, education and awareness among women, and constraints within financial…
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Discussing ENERGIA’s way forward
ENERGIA’s Advisory Group and International Secretariat met in the Netherlands at the end of May to discuss programme progress, network ambitions, current trends, challenges and strategic options. This was an important step in the strategic planning process that the network has embarked upon. The Advisory Group consists of high level professionals coming from the gender…
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Reaching the last mile in the extremely energy poor Asia-Pacific
At least 620 million people in the Asia-Pacific region lack access to electricity, and in South East Asia alone, more than 275 million people still rely on biomass for cooking. Especially in rural areas women bear the brunt of this energy poverty, which compounds the many challenges they face on a daily basis. Women’s engagement…
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New Video: Empower Women, Energise the World!
Why do we need to include women in energy discussions and actions? Because that leads to broader energy access, improved energy supply chain effectiveness and poverty reduction. Watch our new video to see how it works!
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Interview with Soma Dutta: “Women can play a central role in expanding energy access at the last mile”
At the upcoming Asia Clean Energy Forum (ACEF), ENERGIA will play a more active role than ever before. More on this, and on some central issues that will be discussed at ACEF, in a conversation with Soma Dutta, the Program Coordinator of Women Economic Empowerment Program. Why and in what way is ENERGIA taking part…
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Addressing gender considerations in large-scale energy infrastructure policies and project development
GECCO Energy Webinar Series Thursday, June 1, 2017 from 10:00 EST / 16:00 CET Register for the webinar here:https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8038909225026883842 Gender mainstreaming in the energy sector is taking place from national policies, to institutional reforms and project development, increasing energy access and providing a low emission development pathways for many around the world. It has been…
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RSPN wins ADB Civil Society Partnership Award
Royal Society for Protection of Nature (RSPN) was awarded the ADB Civil Society Partnership Award on May 5, 2017, during the 50th Annual ADB Meeting held in Yokohama, Japan. RSPN received the award for the implementation in Buthan of the regional project “Improving Gender-Inclusive Access to Clean and Renewable Energy in Bhutan, Nepal, and Sri…
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Successful efforts to integrate gender into energy policies and investments in Senegal
At the outset of the ENERGIA sponsored advocacy project in Senegal, Energy 4 Impact reported that energy laws and regulatory and policy documents did not take gender into account. Instead, generic expressions such as “access to modern forms of energy and electricity in rural areas”, “energy access for all” or “vulnerable persons” appeared in those…