Author: Tjarda Muller
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SE4ALL Forum 2017: Going further, faster – together
The Sustainable Energy for All Forum is the landmark, biennial gathering celebrating the tremendous work organisations and individuals all around the world are doing to bring affordable, clean energy to all and power a revolution in energy productivity. On 3-5 April 2016 in New York City, SE4All will create a marketplace for more than 1,000…
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Dr. Youba Sokona appointed to advisory committee IPSP
ENERGIA congratulates Youba Sokona on his appointment to the Honorary Advisory Committee of the prestigious International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP). The Honorary Advisory Committee is composed of 17 distinguished moral and intellectual leaders, who lend their support to the IPSP. Dr. Sokona is Special Advisor on Sustainable Development at The South Centre and member of the…
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Making subsidy reform work for women in Nigeria
An IISD Briefing note Key messages: Subsidy reform will likely reduce household expenditure on women’s needs and reduce women’s access to modern energy sources, affecting their economic opportunities and respiratory health. Reform can have positive effects if it leads to improved energy supply systems (increasing energy access), but this is likely to take place over the…
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Partnerships to scale up energy delivery
ENERGIA’s Women’s Economic Empowerment Programme works with partners in seven countries to strengthen and empower micro and small scale women entrepreneurs who deliver clean and renewable technologies. An early lesson has been that if the delivery of technologies really is to be scaled up, partnerships and agreements with other parties such as community groups, government institutions,…
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Lecture: In the light of what we know: Gender and energy transformations.
Inaugural lecture of Dr. Joy Clancy for her appointment as full Professor at the University of Twente, Department of Governance and Technology for Sustainability (CSTM). Prof. Clancy is specialized in Gender and Energy. Her research has focused, for more than 30 years, on small scale energy systems for developing countries, including the technology transfer process and…
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Symposium – Engendering the energy transition: Theory meets policy and practice, South meets North
The University of Twente’s Department of Governance and Technology for Sustainability (CSTM) in partnership with European Association of Development and Training Institutes (EADI), Africa Studies Centre (Leiden University) and ENERGIA invites academics, researchers and practitioners to participate in the symposium: Engendering the Energy Transition. The symposium seeks to create a multi-discipline platform where a number…
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Energy Access through women-led businesses
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Women’s Economic Empowerment: The results so far
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Gender and Energy Research Programme – DFID perspectives
Full article By Alistair Wray Modern energy services are crucial for poor people, especially women and girls, in improving wellbeing, accessing social services and promoting productive employment. Girls and women’s opportunities are often the most constrained by a lack of light and power – with direct implications for movement at night, personal safety, education and…
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Selling clean energy technologies pays off!
Kopernik’s Wonder Women initiative grew out of a pilot programme in West Indonesia with 50 female entrepreneurs. Their model is now being scaled tenfold thanks to a grant from ENERGIA. Over the next two years, 488 potential entrepreneurs will receive technical, leadership and business training to help them become renewable energy entrepreneurs. Once their business is…
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It’s like Amway, except with solar-powered lights and ovens in the African bush
Stuart Butler from SIERRA, the national magazine of the Sierra Club, interviewed Fatma Muzo, Solar Sister’s Tanzania Country Manager. “I’m from Dar es Salaam, on the coast of Tanzania, but I moved to Arusha for university and work. Both my parents were educated and worked for the government, which meant they also encouraged my education.…
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From basket weavers to salt farmers: the women leading a renewables revolution
The Guardian has published an article on women entrepreneurship in the energy sector, featuring ENERGIA partners Solar Sister: “From female basket weavers in Tanzania to the women farming salt in Gujarat, social enterprises are helping women become clean energy entrepreneurs” Continua reading the article at The Guardian International Hilaria Paschal is one of the…