At least 620 million people in the Asia-Pacific region lack access to electricity, and in South East Asia alone, more than 275 million people still rely on biomass for cooking. Especially in rural areas women bear the brunt of this energy poverty, which compounds the many challenges they face on a daily basis. Women’s engagement […]
Why do we need to include women in energy discussions and actions? Because that leads to broader energy access, improved energy supply chain effectiveness and poverty reduction. Watch our new video to see how it works!
At the upcoming Asia Clean Energy Forum (ACEF), ENERGIA will play a more active role than ever before. More on this, and on some central issues that will be discussed at ACEF, in a conversation with Soma Dutta, the Program Coordinator of Women Economic Empowerment Program. Why and in what way is ENERGIA taking part […]
Royal Society for Protection of Nature (RSPN) was awarded the ADB Civil Society Partnership Award on May 5, 2017, during the 50th Annual ADB Meeting held in Yokohama, Japan. RSPN received the award for the implementation in Buthan of the regional project “Improving Gender-Inclusive Access to Clean and Renewable Energy in Bhutan, Nepal, and Sri […]
At the outset of the ENERGIA sponsored advocacy project in Senegal, Energy 4 Impact reported that energy laws and regulatory and policy documents did not take gender into account. Instead, generic expressions such as “access to modern forms of energy and electricity in rural areas”, “energy access for all” or “vulnerable persons” appeared in those […]
Access to energy is critical for women’s economic empowerment: not only can it free up time for other economic activities, but it also offers opportunities to engage into new roles and gain control over economic decisions. Energy 4 Impact’s Alessandra Moscadelli wrote a blogpost entry for Oxfam’s Women’s Economic Empowerment in Agriculture Knowledge Hub. […]
Whereas it would be hard to dispute that energy interventions impact men and women differently, robust empirical evidence on their differential needs is missing. Likewise, solid evidence that taking a gender-sensitive approach leads to better outcomes is scarce. Those were some of the starting points for organizing one of the side events at the Vienna […]
Vienna Energy Forum Press Release VIENNA, 9 May 2017 – As part of this years’ Vienna Energy Forum, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy (ENERGIA) organized a side event to discuss the importance of robust and empirical evidence for gender inclusive energy policies. Opening the […]
The latest edition of the Sustainable Energy for All Newsletter brings a recap of the SEforALL Forum that took place earlier this month and brought together over 1,000 high-level representatives from government, business, civil society and international organizations from 110 countries. Read the full newsletter. ENERGIA’s highlights from the SEforALL Forum are available here. […]
In early April, ENERGIA joined over 1,000 other leaders in government, business and civil society who gathered at the Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) Forum in New York City to push for greater urgency and action in achieving universal access to clean, affordable energy. Sustainable Development Goals This year’s forum, occurring 18 months after the […]
ENERGIA brought five exceptional women from Africa and Asia to the Sustainable Energy for All Forum. These five women are successful entrepreneurs, leaders in their communities and role models for other entrepreneurs. They have all been actively engaged in our Womens’ Economic Empowerment Programme for at least one year and have been continuously running a […]
During a strategic meeting held at the fringes of the third Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) Forum, taking place in New York from 3-5 April, high-level representatives from governments, private sector companies and civil society called for intensified partnerships between sectors in order to accelerate progress towards decentralized renewable energy access – specifically for low income […]
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