Centre for Rural Technology Nepal (CRT/N) has been actively reaching out to children and young people, their parents and educators, to advocate sustainable energy and increase awareness of its importance. In the past year, advocacy and awareness raising in Nepal included a creative portrayal of the importance of improved cookstoves, capacity building programmes, the distribution […]
ENERGIA’s International Coordinator and Programme Manager Sheila Oparaocha attended the three-day Women’s Energy Entrepreneurship workshop in Nairobi, Kenya. The event brought together people from all around the world to discuss women’s energy entrepreneurship and explore the role of gender-informed approaches that scale access to household energy, as well as increase gender equality and women’s empowerment. […]
We are pleased to announce five women from Asia and Africa as winners of the ENERGIA Women Entrepreneurship Award 2017. The award is meant to recognize outstanding work and encourage the winners to perform even better in the future. ENERGIA’s partners in the implementation of the Women Economic Empowerment (WE) Programme nominated the candidates for the […]
From: www.cleancookstoves.org The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves is pleased to announce Betty Ikalany as the winner of the inaugural Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Award. The award recognizes outstanding female leaders in the household energy sector who are advancing clean cooking solutions in emerging markets. For several years Betty has led efforts to advance […]
The Equator Prize is awarded to outstanding community and indigenous initiatives that are advancing nature-based solutions for local sustainable development. Each winning group will receive USD 10,000 and will be invited to participate in a series of policy dialogues and special events during the United Nations General Assembly in New York in September 2017, culminating […]
Women play a critical role in the cookstove value chain because of their central responsibility for managing household energy. As primary users of household energy products such as cleaner cookstoves, women are well-positioned to catalyze the market as micro-entrepreneurs and sales agents through marketing, distribution and delivery of clean energy technologies and after-sales services. However, […]
Jan 27, 2017 – 9:00 am – 11:00 am EST Gender mainstreaming in the energy sector is taking place institutionally, through national policies and reforms, and through project development and implementation. It has been a central pillar of international commitments towards achieving universal access to modern and clean energy and is recognized as a cornerstone of the […]
The World Bank Group has issued a short assignment on Gender and Geothermal research. This work is being done in collaboration between ESMAP and the Government of Iceland. The objective of this assignment is to define gender aspects of geothermal development and develop actionable guidelines for incorporation of gender equality and social inclusion into geothermal […]
By Shukri Abdulkadir, ENERGIA Programme Officer “What do women want?” It was this age-old question that formed the central focus of the International Workshop on Gender and Energy, held on December 12, 2016 and the subsequent annual Gender and Energy Research Programme meeting. The international workshop presented a host of insights on energy and empowerment from […]
Plan International Spain is the recipient of The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves’ latest grant. The grant is given to evaluate the links between clean cooking solutions and gender-based violence (GBV) in humanitarian settings. The announcement coincides with UN Women’s 16 Days of Activism to fight GBV campaign. Plan’s study will take place in a Rwandan refugee […]
A report released today by the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves showed that more than 53 million clean and/or efficient cookstoves and fuels have been distributed from 2010-2015, and that the proportion of higher-performing cookstoves in the biomass stoves market is increasing every year. The 2016 Progress Report, which includes noteworthy accomplishments from across the clean […]
Inaugural lecture dr. Joy Clancy The effects of the energy transition have been addressed in numerous ways. The political and economic effects are under a magnifying glass, as the impacts are considered to be huge for the coming decades. But what is the relation between energy transition and gender equality? Dr. Joy Clancy, who held […]
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