Elizabeth Cecelski – 21 June 2015, Vienna, Austria From 18 – 20 June, UNIDO organized the Vienna Energy Forum 2015, together with SE4ALL. ENERGIA co-hosted a networking event and a side event on gender, energy and inclusive development. As one of ENERGIA’s technical advisor I attended this inspiring forum. It was good to see old […]
Deadline: 8 July 2015 The Korea Green Foundation’s Green Asia Grants annually provides financial aid to NGOs, civic organizations in the Asia region and this is the five consecutive year, it has been held. The Green Asia Grant supports environmental campaign, education and research projects by CSOs in Asian regions. It aims to support activities of CSOs […]
The 2015 Asia Clean Energy Forum kicked off on Sunday in Manila with a Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) Consultation Workshop, bringing together leaders from public sector, private sector and civil society organisations working on energy in the Asia-Pacific region. The most impassioned intervention came from Harish Hande of SELCO-India, arguing that funders need to […]
Unlocking Energy Access Impact, Investment, Scale and Sustainability through Gender-Sensitive Approaches Date: Monday, June 15, 2:00 – 5:30 Organizers: ENERGIA, the International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy; Global Alliance on Clean Cookstoves; Energy for All Initiative and South Asia Energy Division, ADB The United Nations General Assembly declared the decade 2014 2024 as the Decade of […]
“We buy books, pay school fees, get uniforms. That is our work. The requirements for children, [we see] the light is one of the requirements.” In Gulu, Uganda, there is a group of women working together to bring light, hope, and opportunity to their families and communities. Each week, the village savings and loans group meets […]
It was apparent at the 2015 SE4ALL Forum last week that the topic of gender has finally wedged its way into the energy access conversation. From the multi-stakeholder sessions early in the week, all the way through to the ministerial dialogues in the General Assembly hall at the United Nations, women were mentioned not only […]
On the first day of the 2015 Sustainable Energy for All Forum in New York City, ENERGIA and their partners convened a multi-stakeholder panel focused on Gender-Informed Business Models for Scaling Up Energy Access. The panel was moderated by Sheila Oparaocha, ENERGIA’s International Coordinator and Programme Manager and featured: Corinne Hart – Director, Gender & […]
Delegates at the World Health Assembly adopted a resolution to address the health impacts of air pollution – the world’s largest single environmental health risk. Every year 4.3 million deaths occur from exposure to indoor air pollution and 3.7 million deaths are attributable to outdoor air pollution. This was the first time the Health Assembly […]
A study that measured the use of improved cookstoves in India, Bangladesh and Nepal found that women spend the equivalent of more than two weeks each year collecting firewood in India. Households using cleaner, more efficient cookstoves saved significant amounts of time and used less fuel than those using traditional stoves. Women who saved time […]
At the 2015 SE4ALL Forum this week, ENERGIA’s International Coordinator, Sheila Oparaocha took to the stage to participate in an important discussion on Energy, Women & Children’s Health. The group of speakers – which represented the private sector, governments of concerned nations and other international NGO’s participating in relevant projects – discussed the issues facing women […]
The SE4ALL Forum in New York City this week has been full of inspiring and enlightening conversation. From motivating speeches to policy discussions, those gathered have been focused on developing methods for delivering more sustainable energy to a greater number of people around the world. Among those gathered who are already hard at work on […]
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