Category: ENERGIA
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ENERGIA NEWS, Issue 15, Dec 2014 – now available
> Click to download full issue < EDITORIAL This issue of ENERGIA News (EN) is the first for some months. However, this is not a sign that the network has been inactive – far from it! ENERGIA has being finalising a successful phase four and starting a fifth phase. During phase four, one of the…
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Gender + Energy research programme
In 2014, the ENERGIA International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy established a large research programme to generate and analyse empirical evidence on the links between gender, energy and poverty, and to translate this evidence into recommendations for policy and practice. Five individual four-year research projects will start in January 2015. The research programme is…
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Kopernik’s Wonder Women in Eastern Indonesia
Kopernik is very happy to announce the expansion of their Wonder Women initiative in eastern Indonesia, which will engage more than 500 women as clean energy micro-social-entrepreneurs over the next three years. This expansion is made possible by support from ENERGIA, funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland, the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation…
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Women in Senegal to benefit from new opportunities in the energy market
GVEP International and SEM Fund are joining forces to increase women’s participation in the energy market in Senegal and make sustainable energy available to the poorest communities. Over the next three years, 250 women-run micro and small enterprises in the regions of Tambacounda and Kedougou in eastern Senegal will receive tailored mentoring, business and financial support…
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Greenway Grameen: innovations in cooking
Neha Juneja showing the Greenway Smart Cookstove at the Ashden Awards Ceremony Photo: ENERGIA ENERGIA interviewed Neha Juneja, co-founder and CEO of Greenway Grameen, at the Ashden Awards 2014. She is an industrial engineer and has founded Greenway Grameen with two partners: a chemical engineer and a mechanical engineer. They started designing clean cookstoves in 2010,…
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Fully Charged: Sustainable Energy for Women and Girls
Dame Jenni Murray hosting the afternoon panel at the Ashden Conference “Fully Charged: Sustainable Energy for Women and Girls” Photo: ENERGIA Every year, the Ashden Awards recognize and support some of the world’s best green trailblazers offering sustainable energy solutions. The awards allow organizations to accelerate their work through an International Support Programme. This year, the event…
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ENERGIA and DFID join forces to further knowledge on impacts of energy access for women and girls
The International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy, ENERGIA, and the UK Department for International Development, DFID, signed an agreement to advance knowledge and awareness regarding the impact of energy access—or the lack thereof—on women and girls. The agreement encompasses research, evidence gathering and dissemination, and raising public awareness on the importance of energy access for…
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Gender in Energy: Stories of Change