Category: ENERGIA
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Women at the heart of energy access: ENERGIA calls for gender inclusion and equality in the energy sector
This International Women’s Day, ENERGIA and partners celebrate all the women working in the energy sector and stress once more why it is so important to include them in the energy conversation and action. Globally, 789 million people live without access to electricity and 2.8 billion lack access to clean cooking. Women are disproportionately impacted…
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Call for Expressions of Interest on Gender and Energy Innovation – Introductory Webinar
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…
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Kick off bootcamp for the Gender and Energy Innovation Facility
More than twenty individuals gathered virtually to kick off ENERGIA and partners’ first Gender and Energy Innovation Facility Bootcamp. Over five days, NGOs, CBOs, social enterprises, financial institutions, consultants and research centers working at the nexus of gender and energy, explored how to drive change and develop innovative ideas to address persistent gender challenges in…
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Solidarity Fund supports female entrepreneurs during the corona crisis
Together with our partners, we have helped nearly 5,000 women energy entrepreneurs across Africa and Asia over the past five years. Through their sustainable energy businesses, these women work to create a better future for their families and their communities. But the corona pandemic has put all of that at risk. They are women who…
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ENERGIA, the African Development Bank, and the Climate Investment Funds join efforts to strengthen gender in the energy sector in Africa
ENERGIA, together with the African Development Bank and the Climate Investment Funds have jointly launched four country briefs on November, 24 during the virtual event “Gender and Sustainable Energy Access in Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda”. The briefs contribute to increasing data availability on gender and energy and provide insights for future gender sensitive…
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Further steps are needed to ensure a gender-just energy transition
For the shift from fossil fuels towards renewable energies to be genuinely sustainable on both the environmental and social levels, it needs to be just, to leave no one behind during the process. Climate change impacts men and women differently. As the main caretakers of families and households, and providers of food security in many…
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Four-part webinar series on Gender and energy by FES Climate and Energy Project in Asia
The FES Climate and Energy Project in Asia hosted a four-part webinar series on gender and energy from August to October 2020. It was designed for FES country offices and partners working on the energy transition, with in total 80 participants from across the region. This series sought to provide insights on how a…
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ENERGIA response to COVID19: SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLKIT
Access to clean energy and cooking technologies is pivotal for people’s livelihoods and a sustainable, equal and equitable socio-economic development. In this realm, women play a key role in the promotion, deployment and progress of clean energy. However, because of cultural norms, they experience social, political, and economic barriers, further hindering their participation in…
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ENERGIA Response to COVID-19
The corona-virus crisis is putting a tremendous strain on the global economy and public health systems, as well as on the energy supply and access systems that support them. It highlights and magnifies inequalities and the multiple forms of discrimination that women and girls face, including in the energy sector. The pandemic goes beyond…
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A call to action to scale up clean cooking at the 2020 High Level Political Forum
At the start of the Decade of Action towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and on the occasion of the High Level Political Forum, ENERGIA/Hivos and the Ministry of Kenya, together with key partners, hosted a virtual side event to take stock of the efforts needed to enhance the ambitions in the clean cooking…
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Rosmiaty Lantara (ENERGIA/Hivos)
Rosmiaty Lantara is an Indonesian biogas entrepreneur, supported by the Hivos BIRU biogas program, which contributes to a transition toward broad renewable energy use and greener societies. Rosmiaty founded her biogas construction company, CV Rizki Abadi, in 2016, with the goal of raising awareness about clean cooking fuels throughout her province of South Sulawesi. Rosmiaty…
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Oluwakemi Ojewoye (ENERGIA/Solar Sister)
Oluwakemi Ojewoye is a solar energy entrepreneur in Nigeria. Her business journey started in 2016, when her husband bought a solar lamp from a woman entrepreneur in their district. Regular and long-lasting power cuts impacted their daily lives, leaving them completely in the dark after sunset. The solar lamp made a huge difference to their…