Do you work in Nepal? Do you have an innovative idea to address gender challenges in energy access and/or clean cooking? Join our webinar on February 10 and find out how we could support you! Date: February 10, 2021 Time: 14:00 NPT | 09:15 CET To register, please send an e-mail to: ssartori@hivos.org, providing […]
Date: February, 4 Time: 9:30 AM EST Location: Virtual event. Register: Register to attend here. (CLOSED). The Shine Campaign is inviting you to join our community convening on 4 February at 9:30 AM EST for a conversation about Shine’s investment pipeline research and a discussion on funding and financing for decentralized renewable energy projects. Speakers include: Savitha […]
Sulis Setiawati plucks some fresh vegetables from a field and smiles: “Thanks to the solar irrigation, farmers can now grow a range of fresh vegetables when in the past they had to survive from growing corn and maize.” She tells how farmers can now farm during the eight-month long dry season, giving a boost to […]
Applications open: 4 Nov 2019 Applications close: 11 Dec 2019 We have just a few years to avert climate catastrophe, and every wasted month makes the challenge ahead far more difficult. Failed energy systems of the past have left 840 million people without access to electricity, and the rest heavily reliant on a fossil fuel burning, carbon-heavy […]
A Q&A with Rita Poppe, Hivos policy advisor green and inclusive energy From September 23 to 29, the city of New York will host the annual climate week. Besides panel discussion, concerts and exhibitions, the Climate Action Summit of the UN Secretary-General will be organized. In the same week, the SDG Summit will also take place, bringing together […]
The Hague, 27 May 2019. Cooking with renewable electricity is now cost-competitive with other cooking alternatives in most developing countries, concludes a new report called Beyond Fire: How to achieve electric cooking by Hivos and World Future Council. This is a significant improvement from three years ago when the two organizations studied this for the […]
In September 2015, the international community came together and approved the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which contained 17 goals and over 169 targets to “provide a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet”. Among others, one of the greatest challenges facing countries in meeting the 2030 goals is universal energy […]
PPEO 2018 builds on PPEO 2016 (bottom-up energy access planning) and PPEO 2017 (financing for energy access) to explore how access to energy can be accelerated to achieve both the scale required to meet our global 2030 goals, and the inclusivity required to leave no-one behind. The report looks at clean cooking, decentralised electricity and grid-extension case study programmes across sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia […]
Inequalities and discriminations based on gender, such as GBV, and environmental unsustainability are deeply interlinked, such that tackling one without addressing the other is unlikely to succeed. Although largely undocumented to date, GBV and environment links may feature in conservation initiatives as well as those focused on gender, economic empowerment, development, humanitarian aid, and rights […]
Bangkok, August 2, 2018 — We proudly announce that two projects from our Research Programme have been awarded at the Diana International Entrepreneurship Research Conference, held in Bangkok, July 31 – August 2, 2018. Research Project 2 and Research Project 7 teams were awarded the Best Junior Paper Award and the Best Conceptual Paper Award respectively. Research Project 2 on […]
The Multi-Tear Framework (MTF) survey is a global baseline survey on household access to electricity and clean cooking, which goes beyond the binary approach to look at access as a spectrum of service levels experienced by households. Resources included are raw data, codebook, questionnaires, sampling strategy document, and country diagnostic report. Formats include zip file […]
NEW YORK, July 9, 2018 – ENERGIA presented the preliminary findings of the Gender and Energy Research Programme at the High-Level Political Forum. The High-Level Political Forum (HLPF), which will run for two weeks until July, 18 at the UN Headquarters in New York, brings together policy makers, government leaders and stakeholders under the […]
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