Through participating in an ADB-supported RSPN – ENERGIA training programme on the use of electricity for production, product improvement and skills enhancement, bamboo crafter Ugyen Choden (second from left) has more than doubled her income. Ugyen Choden is a 27-year-old single mother of two who lives in the village of Bjoka Trong in Lower […]
In Senegal, the average electricity access is 57 percent, in rural areas it is 27. In the regions of Tambacounda and Kedougou, Eastern Senegal, where ENERGIA is working with local partner GVEP, the percentages of access are as low as nine and four. Delivery of off-grid solar products is therefore critical to improving the livelihoods […]
Sheila Oparaocha, Programme Manager of ENERGIA and a member of the Power for All Steering Committee talks about the critical role of women in achieving energy access in an interview with Power for All. This interview originally appeared on the Power for All website, for the full transcript please visit their website: http://www.powerforall.org/blog/2016/3/28/in-conversation-with-sheila-oparaocha
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This year’s Zayed Future Energy Prize for the Non-Profit Organisation (NPO) category was awarded to Kopernik, an Indonesia-based organisation. The award-giving ceremony was held in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates on Monday, 18 January 2016, during the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week. The Zayed Future Energy Prize was established in 2008 to honour individuals, […]
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