Author: Tjarda Muller
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A new report on women’s role in renewable and energy efficiency projects
The Energy and Environment Partnership (EEP) has published the results of its in-depth gender study which sought to understand the role of women and girls in renewable and energy-efficiency projects of the EEP portfolio. The aim of the report is to share lessons learned from gender-related activities within the projects, and to provide recommendations to project developers…
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Famous singer lending her voice to the cause of expanding energy access and women’s opportunities
“We get a lot more media attention when our celebrity ambassadors take action, and we believe that having celebrities carry our message has enabled us to reach out to a wider segment of the population,” said Laura Nolan, Communications officer at Energy 4 Impact in Senegal. The most prominent celebrity that Energy 4 Impact has…
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Hilaria wins ENERGIA’s Women Entrepreneur of 2017 Award!
Hilaria Paschal is a successful entrepreneur because she never gives up and is not afraid to try new things in her business. In 2016, she kept her Solar Sister business going in spite of caring for her sick child and dipping into her savings for the medical costs. Hilaria truly exemplifies Solar Sister’s values of grit…
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SEforALL hosts first working meeting of People-Centered Accelerator
Experts from across the world traveled to Iceland’s Landsvirkjun power plant in Krafla to discuss how the Accelerator could support social inclusion, gender equality and women’s empowerment in the energy sector. Participants included investors, NGOs, business and philanthropists from a variety of geographies and backgrounds to support the development of the Accelerator in setting out…
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Five outstanding women entrepreneurs from Myanmar
A group of remarkable women from Chaung U, Myanmar, redefined adversity as just an inconvenience, with opportunities lurking around the corner. In the process of developing their successful cookstoves businesses, they became role models for other women and demonstrated that perseverance is key for a happy ending. A 25-year-old has an idea Chaung U…
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Libreville outcome statement on women entrepreneurs and sustainable energy in Africa
This statement is the outcome of The Women Entrepreneurs and Sustainable Energy Workshop, which took place from 13-14 June in Libreville, Gabon, alongside the Sixteenth Session of the African Ministerial Conference on Environment. The workshop brought together more than 100 women energy entrepreneurs and experts in energy policy, financing, and capacity building. It was co-organized…
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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…