Author: Tjarda Muller
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Tackling the ‘last mile’ energy access challenge through women’s economic empowerment
Access to energy is critical for women’s economic empowerment: not only can it free up time for other economic activities, but it also offers opportunities to engage into new roles and gain control over economic decisions. Energy 4 Impact’s Alessandra Moscadelli wrote a blogpost entry for Oxfam’s Women’s Economic Empowerment in Agriculture Knowledge Hub. …
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More research on impact of gender inclusive energy policies can enable progress towards the SDGs
Vienna Energy Forum Press Release VIENNA, 9 May 2017 – As part of this years’ Vienna Energy Forum, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy (ENERGIA) organized a side event to discuss the importance of robust and empirical evidence for gender inclusive energy policies. Opening the…
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Join us at the VEF side event dedicated to empirical evidence!
Together with UNIDO, we are organizing a Vienna Energy Forum side event on 9 May. Strengthening the empirical Evidence: Gender inclusive energy policies enabling progress towards the SDGs will bring together researchers, policy makers and practitioners to reflect on the state of art of the empirical evidence on energy interventions that are delivering on gender impacts and…
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Full recap of the SEforALL Forum
The latest edition of the Sustainable Energy for All Newsletter brings a recap of the SEforALL Forum that took place earlier this month and brought together over 1,000 high-level representatives from government, business, civil society and international organizations from 110 countries. Read the full newsletter. ENERGIA’s highlights from the SEforALL Forum are available here. …
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Job opportunity with Gender CC – Women for Climate Justice
GenderCC – Women for Climate Justice are seeking a project coordinator for an international project on gender and urban climate policy. The position is based in Berlin, Germany. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, and candidates should be able to join the team as soon as possible (May/June 2017). Gender CC is a global network…
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Procurement: Business opportunities for women in a changing energy value chain in West Africa
The ECOWAS Centre for Regional Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ECREEE) will commission a feasibility study on business opportunities for women in a changing energy value chain in west Africa (see full project title and reference below). This study will be funded through a Grant from African Development Bank through the NEPAD – Infrastructure Project Preparation Facility…
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Meet the winners of the ENERGIA Women Entrepreneurship Award
ENERGIA brought five exceptional women from Africa and Asia to the Sustainable Energy for All Forum. These five women are successful entrepreneurs, leaders in their communities and role models for other entrepreneurs. They have all been actively engaged in our Womens’ Economic Empowerment Programme for at least one year and have been continuously running a…
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Sectors call to join forces to achieve energy access in high-level meeting
During a strategic meeting held at the fringes of the third Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) Forum, taking place in New York from 3-5 April, high-level representatives from governments, private sector companies and civil society called for intensified partnerships between sectors in order to accelerate progress towards decentralized renewable energy access – specifically for low income…
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Women can be true change makers in the scaling up of energy access
Pursuing the goal of universal access to modern energy services by 2030 – while 1.1 billion people still live without energy access, and more than 2.7 billion without clean cooking facilities – requires concerted international effort and a break from business-as-usual. That is precisely what ENERGIA has been doing: building and taking part in international…
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ENERGIA’s participation at the SEforALL Forum. Join us! Read more about where and when
Wednesday April 5 16:45 – 17:45 ENERGIA Partner Working Session “Leveraging efforts for scaling energy access though women centric business models” Over the last few years, a number innovative business models around women’s energy entrepreneurship have gained traction. Private companies, social enterprises, NGOs and large conglomerates are finding it profitable to engage women (and their…
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ENERGIA’s researchers on gender and energy share their key findings so far
“The same energy service may affect men and women in different ways, with different social or economic outcomes,” said Joy Clancy, Professor in Development Studies at the University of Twente, who is the Principal Researcher for ENERGIA’s Gender and Energy Research Programme. “However,” she continued, “there is little independent and empirical evidence of these differentiated…
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ENERGIA is looking for a senior level Project Officer
Are you driven by a desire to contribute to gender equality, women empowerment and poverty reduction by scaling up energy access in development countries? Do you have knowledge and experience in project management and administration? Are you keen to be part of a process that translates project interventions and their implementation into concrete outcomes? Are…