Category: Events
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Emerging Economies and Women’s Economic Empowerment: Feminist Analysis from BRICS.
This event will present a south feminist framework for economic empowerment for women and look at some of the ideas that are emerging out of BRICS and how they related to or can promote women’s economic empowerment. The panel will include: Ms. Gizem Sucuoglu, Turkey, Network of South ThinkTanks (NeST) Ms. Sucuoglu will present on the South South…
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WEBINAR: Empowered Entrepreneur Training Programme
Women play a critical role in the cookstove value chain because of their central responsibility for managing household energy. As primary users of household energy products such as cleaner cookstoves, women are well-positioned to catalyze the market as micro-entrepreneurs and sales agents through marketing, distribution and delivery of clean energy technologies and after-sales services. However,…
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GECCO Energy Webinar: How gender-responsive methodologies can support Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)
Jan 27, 2017 – 9:00 am – 11:00 am EST Gender mainstreaming in the energy sector is taking place institutionally, through national policies and reforms, and through project development and implementation. It has been a central pillar of international commitments towards achieving universal access to modern and clean energy and is recognized as a cornerstone of the…
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Asia Clean Energy Forum
The Asian Development Bank (ADB), the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Korea Energy Agency (KEA) are pleased to announce that the Asia Clean Energy Forum 2017 will be held in Manila during the week of 5-9 June 2017. Those who are interested in presenting their work and ideas at ACEF should respond…
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WEBINAR – Political economy: A tool for addressing gender in the energy sector
A webinar organized by IUCN’s GECCO initiative and ENERGIA While efforts at integrating gender considerations into climate change mitigation and the renewable energy sector have progressed over the years, most of this progress has taken place in small-scale, community-based projects. Though these initiatives demonstrate ways in which engaging women improves the success of energy access and…
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Preventing Gender-Based Violence within Energy Projects
Thursday, November 10, 2016| 12:00 – 1:30 PM | Room I 10-420 Sponsored by: ESMAP, the Efficient Clean Cooking and Heating Program (ECCH), and the Gender CCSA Violence against women and girls is a global epidemic. The World Health Organization estimates that 1 in 3 (35%) of women worldwide have experienced either physical and/or…
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Enhancing capacity of women micro-entrepreneurs to sell clean energy products
Please join USAID and Winrock International on Wednesday, November 16, 2016 for a full day event on: Enhancing Capacity of Women Micro-entrepreneurs to Sell Clean Energy Products Women play a critical role in the base of the pyramid (BoP) energy value chain because of their central responsibility for managing household energy. As primary users of household energy,…
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Webinar – Technology and data collection: Allies in women-centric energy access programmes
Technology and data collection: Allies in women-centric energy access programmes A webinar is organized by IUCN’s GECCO initiative and ENERGIA Energy is fundamental to development. Energy access interventions are designed to reduce energy poverty and have the opportunity of doing so while also addressing gender gaps–i.e., increasing well-being and lifting women and their families out of poverty. As a…
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Webinar – Technology and data collection: Allies in women-centric energy access programmes
A webinar is organized by IUCN’s GECCO initiative and ENERGIA Energy is fundamental to development. Energy access interventions are designed to reduce energy poverty and have the opportunity of doing so while also addressing gender gaps–i.e., increasing well-being and lifting women and their families out of poverty. As a result of this rationale there has been a surge of…
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Webinar: Use of an indicator framework to evaluate and measure social impact
Please join the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (Alliance) on Monday, October 24 at 8:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) for a webinar designed for Alliance new and existing partners. This webinar is part of a series that provides an introduction to the Alliance for new and current partners and an overview of how…
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E-discussion: Light up and power Africa for women and men
Light up and power Africa for women and men This online discussion is organized by the Gender in Practice Community of Practice in partnership with ENERGIA, Power Africa and various private sector organizations. We invite you to engage in this discussion and share your views and ideas on this topic by registering directly on the GiP-CoP platform or…
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Webinar – Scaling up gender: Women in off-grid energy business models and supply chains
Join The Low Carbon Energy for Development Network and Smart Villages on Thursday, 13 October 2016, 12 noon UK / 1pm CEST Registration link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2397829628857963521 In August, the Low Carbon Energy for Development Network and Smart Villages held a successful webinar focusing on women and entrepreneurship in off-grid communities, with views from Solar Sister, Ajima Farms Ltd, Power4All, and Kopernik. (http://e4sv.org/events/women-energy-entrepreneurship-business-models-off-grid-energy-social-impact-part-ii/)…