Author: Tjarda Muller
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WEBINAR – Political economy: A tool for addressing gender in the energy sector
A webinar organized by IUCN’s GECCO initiative and ENERGIA While efforts at integrating gender considerations into climate change mitigation and the renewable energy sector have progressed over the years, most of this progress has taken place in small-scale, community-based projects. Though these initiatives demonstrate ways in which engaging women improves the success of energy access and…
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Preventing Gender-Based Violence within Energy Projects
Thursday, November 10, 2016| 12:00 – 1:30 PM | Room I 10-420 Sponsored by: ESMAP, the Efficient Clean Cooking and Heating Program (ECCH), and the Gender CCSA Violence against women and girls is a global epidemic. The World Health Organization estimates that 1 in 3 (35%) of women worldwide have experienced either physical and/or…
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Enhancing capacity of women micro-entrepreneurs to sell clean energy products
Please join USAID and Winrock International on Wednesday, November 16, 2016 for a full day event on: Enhancing Capacity of Women Micro-entrepreneurs to Sell Clean Energy Products Women play a critical role in the base of the pyramid (BoP) energy value chain because of their central responsibility for managing household energy. As primary users of household energy,…
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WoMin launches Women Building Power booklets
WoMin is a women-led regional alliance fighting destructive natural resource extraction and proposing a just development agenda for African women. WoMin is pleased to officially launch Women Building Power. Women Building Power is a cutting-edge and developing collection of research, information materials, and tools. It forms the knowledge hub of an emerging African women-led grassroots driven…
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UN Women Call for Applications open
The UN Women Empower Women is an online platform on Women’s Economic Empowerment. Its Call for Applications to become an Empower Women Champion for change is now open, until November 18. Apply to become an Empower Women Champion for Change 2016-2017. If you want to know more about what it entails, Empower Women alumni tell you…
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Alliance for Clean Energy Access publicly launched
The Alliance of Civil Society Organisations for Clean Energy Access (ACCESS) officially launched its website and newsletter. ENERGIA is proud member of this alliance, that aims to strengthen the visibility and presence of CSOs working to deliver universal energy access, particularly within Sustainable Energy for All (SEforAll), Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7) implementation and other global…
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Vlogging about selling clean energy products in East Flores
Trisa Triandesa was one of the three selected volunteers in Koperkink’s #IDWomen4Energy programme. He lived for a month with one of Kopernik’s Wonder Women, to help her in her businesses, collecting merchandise and selling it. The enthusiastic actor and media consultant vlogged about his experience. Click below to follow Trisa on his adventure!
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Application process Ashden Awards now open
The application process for the 2017 Ashden Awards is now open. Awardees will receive up to £20,000 in prize money, tailored support to help scale-up as well as access to new networks and investors. The Awards are looking for pioneering enterprises and programmes demonstrating achievement in 7 areas – details of which along with application…
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Webinar – Technology and data collection: Allies in women-centric energy access programmes
Technology and data collection: Allies in women-centric energy access programmes A webinar is organized by IUCN’s GECCO initiative and ENERGIA Energy is fundamental to development. Energy access interventions are designed to reduce energy poverty and have the opportunity of doing so while also addressing gender gaps–i.e., increasing well-being and lifting women and their families out of poverty. As a…
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Agency building as part of integral support to women entrepreneurs
Support micro- and small scale women entrepreneurs to become successful business owners is much more than providing them with technical skills. Agency building is at least as important. But what is agency? How do you build, develop or strengthen it? Why is it so important? Unequal relations and standards Merriam-Webster defines agency as ‘a person…
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Why including women is important. An interview with ENERGIA’s International Coordinator
Watch an interview with ENERGIA’s International Coordinator Sheila Oparaocha on Himalaya TV, Nepal. Sheila talks not only about the situation in Nepal, but also explains why it is important to include women in the energy supply chain, as providers as well as consumers.
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Celebrities rooting for energy access
Getting people to understand and care for an issue gets a boost when celebrities root for your case. Our partners running public campaigns to raise awareness on the linkages between poverty, gender inequality and energy access, know this as no other. These campaigns have been endorsed by national celebrities. And it paid off. Together, they have reached…