Category: Blog
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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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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…