Author: Tjarda Muller
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CWS 60 recap: Women’s Energy Entrepreneurship: Empowering Women and Scaling Access to Energy
March 14, 2016, New York. Solar Sister participated in the UN NGO Commission on the Status of Women (CSW60) official parallel event on the theme “Women’s Energy Entrepreneurship: Empowering Women and Scaling Access to Energy”. The event was organized by The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, ENERGIA and UN Women. The panel discussed women’s energy…
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Strangely little is known about electricity’s gendered impact!
This blog was originally posted on the website of the EFEWEE programme (Exploring Factors that Enhance and Restrict Women’s Empowerment through Electrification) By Magi Matinga, Tanja Winther, Anjali Saini and Debajit Palit (on behalf of the EFEWEE Team) Dear All, It has been a really exciting start to 2016 for the EFEWEE team!…
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ENERGIA celebrates International Women’s Day all year round
For ENERGIA, every day is International Women’s Day! Together with eight partner organizations, we support over 3,000 women in seven countries in Africa and Asia, to become empowered entrepreneurs. One of these women is Mrs. Kandé, who owns a dairy production business in Kolda, South Senegal. Mrs. Kandé started her dairy production in 2002. Despite…
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Hivos extends a warm welcome to ENERGIA!
As of March 1, 2016, Hivos became the legal host of longstanding partner ENERGIA. With the integration of ENERGIA, Hivos welcomes a network of member organisations in 22 countries (with a focus on Africa and Asia) that has played a major role in creating an institutional base for mainstreaming gender into the energy sector…
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Rural Senegalese Women Spearhead Sustainable Energy Management in Kaffrine
Charcoal production, a predominantly male activity, is being reformed in Senegal’s Kaffrine region to reduce the negative impacts on the environment and include women on all levels of the value chain. Empowered by the Second Sustainable and Participatory Energy Management Project (PROGEDE II), which is funded by the World Bank and the Nordic Development Fund…
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Ensuring the inclusion of clean cooking in the SDG Indicator Framework
We are happy to announce that in collaboration with partners and based on extensive consideration, ENERGIA and the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (Alliance) have made indicator recommendations under Social Development Goals 3 (on health), 5 (on gender and woman’s empowerment), and 7 (on energy access). Our inputs have helped shape the current draft indicator…
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Gender, Energy and Clean Cooking Solutions on the agenda at SE4ALL 3rd Annual Workshop
On Thursday, February 11, the African Development Bank’s (AfDB) Office of the Special Envoy on Gender (SEOG), in collaboration with the Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) Africa Hub, the International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy (ENERGIA) and the ECOWAS Center for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ECREEE), organized an event that focused on Gender, Energy…
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GECCO Webinar: Gender Dimensions of Renewable Energy Financing
The new Paris Agreement sends a strong message to the world to move towards implementation and achieve effective mitigation actions. With energy production and consumption accounting for two-thirds of global greenhouse gas emissions, it’s clear that this mitigation would require an increase in renewable energy investments. Moreover, the international community also agreed to double the…
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Practical Action: Women in Energy Enterprises in Kenya
A single mother of three, Margaret Kariuki used to sell milk to earn a living in Lanet Umoja in Nakuru county of Kenya. Now she runs a successful briquette business, thanks to training and mentorship from Practical Action. Practical Action Eastern Africa, in partnership with Sustainable Community Development Services (SCODE) is implementing the Women in Energy…
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Solar Sister brings light, hope and opportunity
Solar Sister was founded on the idea that women have the potential to bring light, hope and opportunity to their communities. The organization provides technical, business, sales and marketing training to women in Africa. The training helps the women start small businesses, which sell sustainable energy products to their communities. Additionally, their network of entrepreneurs and…
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Principal Investigator Gender and Energy Research Programme Appointed Full Professor at University
ENERGIA’s Principal Investigator for the Gender and Energy Research Programme was appointed full professor “Gender and Energy” at the University of Twente, as of December 1, 2015. Ms. Clancy’s research has focused, for 30 years, on small-scale energy systems for developing countries particularly the influence in households and small informal sector enterprises. Since obtaining her PhD…
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SE4All Africa Side event on Gender, Energy and Clean Cooking Solutions
11 February 2016, Abidjan The African Development Bank’s (AfDB) Office of the Special Envoy on Gender (SEOG) in collaboration with the Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) Africa Hub, the International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy (ENERGIA) and the ECOWAS Center for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ECREEE), has the pleasure to invite you to…