Category: Opportunities

The Partnership on Women’s Entrepreneurship in Renewables (wPOWER) is looking to hire a consultant to document evidence-based best practices on household energy access acceleration and compile case studies and success stories as knowledge products for wider dissemination. If you know anyone who can apply, please share this information with them. Documentation of evidence-based best practice principles, case studies…

Know an inspiring female leader in the household energy sector and wish to nominate her for a grand award? The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves’ Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Award recognizes outstanding female leaders in the household energy sector who are advancing clean cooking solutions in emerging markets. Complete the nomination form here. The Woman…

MEDIOR COMMUNICATIONS CONSULTANT ENERGIA is an international network of like-minded organisations and professionals, active in Asia and Africa. Our vision is that women and men have equal and equitable access to and control over sustainable energy services as an essential human right to development. To achieve this, we: contribute to energy access for all by…

GWNET offers an energy-sector specific, global mentoring programme for women in junior/middle management positions. Since the success of a mentoring relationship depends to a high degree on the compatibility of mentor and mentee, GWNET will select with great attention the most perfect possible match for any mentee, drawing from a significant pool of willing and…

On October 12, 2017, at the inaugural meeting of its governing council, the World Bank Group launched a US$340 million facility to support women entrepreneurs in developing countries and increase their access to the finance, markets, technology, and networks. According to the Bank, 70 percent of women-owned, small and medium-size businesses in developing countries lack access to…

ECREEE, CTCN and PFAN have launched a call for proposals for women-led sustainable energy enterprises in West-Africa, as part of the CTCN/ECOWAS Project on Mainstreaming Gender for a Climate-Resilient Energy System in West Africa. Women-led businesses employing clean energy solutions to facilitate women’s economic empowerment in the ECOWAS countries and seeking investments of up to USD 50 million are invited to…

Applications for the Mandela Washington Fellowship of the Young African Leaders Initiative is open from 13 September to 11 October. Launched in 2014, the Mandela Washington Fellowship is YALI’s flagship program. It brings up to 1,000 African civic, business and community leaders aged 25–35 for six weeks of academic coursework, leadership training and networking at U.S. universities. For more information and to…

The Green Climate Fund is seeking a Gender and Social Specialist to mainstream gender in all of the Fund’s operations, policy work and initiatives; to provide support on addressing social aspects so as to ensure the operations’ compliance with the Fund’s Environmental and Social Safeguards; and engendering adaptation and mitigation strategies and promoting practical approaches…

Visionaria Network is now accepting applications for the Empowered Entrepreneur Training Fund (EETF). EETF is a small grants fund designed to partially subsidize training programs for organizations working to sell cookstoves and other energy products in East Africa to train their sales staff or entrepreneurs in critical business, empowerment and leadership training. The EETF will support organizations in…

The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves has released a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) for a potential applied research study on clean cooking and unpaid work. Contingent on approval of funding (up to $150,000), the Alliance is seeking to identify qualified partners to help improve the sector’s understanding of the impacts on girls and women’s livelihoods,…