Author: Tjarda Muller
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Invest in Women: Accelerate Progress
This year’s International Women’s Day theme is Invest in Women: Accelerate Progress. ENERGIA wholeheartedly embraces this theme. Women are key in addressing the Social Development Goals (SDGs), dealing with the world’s biggest challenges today. These goals, including SDG7 of ensuring affordable and clean energy for all by 2030, can only be met if women are…
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Advocacy endeavors paying off: Working behind the scenes with the President’s Office
By Thabit Mikidadi and Tjarda Muller At the 28th UN FCCC Conference of Parties in Dubai in December, 2023, the President of Tanzania launched the Africa Women Clean Cooking Program (AWCCSP). This initiative aims to empower women and girls across Africa, by providing access to clean cooking technologies. President Samia Suluhu Hassan emphasized the program’s…
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International Day of Clean Energy
January 26 was declared International Day of Clean Energy by the United Nations, as a call to raise awareness and mobilize action for a just and inclusive transition to clean energy for the benefit of people and the planet. At ENERGIA, co-convening partner of the Gender and Energy Compact, we fully support this initiative and…
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Ashden Awards 2024
2023 has been confirmed as the hottest year on record. So isn’t it time to banish spiralling temperatures to the history books? You can help by boosting our search for brilliant Global South energy innovators. Kick off the New Year with something quick and easy: sharing the news that entries to the 2024 Ashden Awards…
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Foyré Rewbé 3 kicks off to advance women’s roles in Senegal’s clean energy transition and climate justice
In the ENERGIA Phase 7 program “Women Driving the Energy Transition and Climate Justice” we work with five partners in six countries, supporting women energy entrepreneurs and productive uses of energy. In the coming years, we aim to reach 2,500 new women entrepreneurs and 2 million consumers in last-mile communities. One of our longstanding partners…
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Gender and Energy Research Symposium: Were are we now? Where do we want to go? How do we get there?
On Friday December 8, 15:00 – 16:00, Prof. dr. Clancy will hold her Farewell lecture at the Twente University. Prof. Clancy is one of the founding members of ENERGIA and has since been one of our Technical Advisors. She has been a trailblazer in research on the gender and energy nexus and her contributions to…
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The Africa Climate Summit and gender inclusion: Compelling discussions, disappointing results
By Tjarda Muller, ENERGIA From September 4 to 6, Kenya hosted the first Africa Climate Summit ever. For three days, Heads of States from across Africa convened to address the ever-worsening effects of climate change and the energy crisis that put the lives of millions of people in harm’s way. Worldwide, 733 million people still…
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Solar Sister Spotlight: “The community sees me as a hero”.
Hilaria Paschal’s home in Madukani, Tanzania along the edge of Tarangire National Park, is a flurry of activity. On a hot Thursday afternoon, a village meeting wraps up nearby, and then a spontaneous performance including drums and dancing springs up in front of Hilaria’s home. Behind them, a group of basket weavers works patiently on…
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Harnessing the power of gender data to transform the clean energy workforce
As a part of the High Level Political Forum (HLPF) 2023, the Government of Iceland, the Gender and Energy Compact – led by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), ENERGIA International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy, and the Global Women’s Network for the Energy Transition (GWNET) – and Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL), co-hosted a side event entitled “Harnessing gender data…
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No gender equality without access to clean cooking
By Jillene Connors Belopolsky, CCA’s Chief of Staff and External Affairs, and Sheila Oparaocha, Director of the ENERGIA International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy. This week, thousands of decision-makers, women’s rights organizations, and movements are gathering in Kigali, Rwanda for Women Deliver 2023, the world’s largest conference on gender equality and the health, rights,…
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Ensuring Universal Energy Access and Advancing Just, Inclusive and Equitable Energy Transitions
On 12 July 2023, SDG 7 underwent its second review, building upon its initial assessment in 2018. The official session, held under the theme “Accelerating the recovery from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at all levels,” placed a strong emphasis on effective and inclusive recovery…
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Harnessing the power of gender data to transform the clean energy workforce
For the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) – under the auspices of the ECOSOC – partners of the Gender and Energy Compact organize the side event “Harnessing the power of gender data to transform the clean energy workforce” that will be hosted by the Government of Iceland, supported by the United Nations Industrial…