Category: Sector News
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ECOWAS validates its regional Directive on Gender Assessments in Energy Projects
Energy experts of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) validated and adopted the ECOWAS Directive on Gender Assessments in Energy Projects, during a 3-day workshop held from 26 – 28 June 2017 in Accra, Ghana. A groundbreaking achievement for the advancement of women’s human rights in energy development, the Directive aims to ensure…
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The need for and the way to energy sovereignty in Nepal
Dr Indira Shakya, an independent researcher specialising in renewable energy and women empowerment who works with ENERGIA in Nepal, made the case for diversifying energy supply in Nepal and presented some policy recommendations in a recent article available online.
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SEforALL hosts first working meeting of People-Centered Accelerator
Experts from across the world traveled to Iceland’s Landsvirkjun power plant in Krafla to discuss how the Accelerator could support social inclusion, gender equality and women’s empowerment in the energy sector. Participants included investors, NGOs, business and philanthropists from a variety of geographies and backgrounds to support the development of the Accelerator in setting out…
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Power for All: In conversation with… Jane Ebinger, SEforALL
Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) is developing an action-plan for a public-private initiative focused on gender equality and women’s empowerment and it wants your input. This according to Jane Ebinger, SEforALL’s director of policy, who had a wide-ranging conversation with Power for All, during which she also highlighted the critical need for supporting human capacity more broadly…
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Decentralized Renewables: Empowering Women As Sustainable Energy Leaders
POWER FOR ALL FACT SHEET Energy poverty is not gender-neutral: women bear the heaviest burden. Distributed renewable energy can not only empower women economically and socially as end users, but the sector itself can hugely benefit by integrating women across the value chain as designers, educators, trainers, managers, and entrepreneurs. Learn more.
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Empowered women securing energy access in rural Senegal
Energy poverty is acute in many parts of rural Senegal, but 160 women entrepreneurs in Tambacounda are mobilising to provide access to modern energy and transform the life of thousands of families in remote communities. Read more
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Advancing energy entrepreneurship and women’s empowerment
From February 14-16, 2017 the Alliance and the wPower Hub hosted an interactive workshop on women’s energy entrepreneurship in Nairobi, Kenya. The event brought together nearly 100 people from 14 countries in Sub Saharan Africa, Asia, Latin America, North America, and Europe to discuss best practices and key challenges for scaling women’s entrepreneurship in the…
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Global Alliance announces Women Entrepreneur of the Year
From: www.cleancookstoves.org The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves is pleased to announce Betty Ikalany as the winner of the inaugural Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Award. The award recognizes outstanding female leaders in the household energy sector who are advancing clean cooking solutions in emerging markets. For several years Betty has led efforts to advance…
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Links between clean cooking solutions and gender based violence to be evaluated
Plan International Spain is the recipient of The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves’ latest grant. The grant is given to evaluate the links between clean cooking solutions and gender-based violence (GBV) in humanitarian settings. The announcement coincides with UN Women’s 16 Days of Activism to fight GBV campaign. Plan’s study will take place in a Rwandan refugee…
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More than 53 million clean and/or efficient cookstoves and fuels distributed
A report released today by the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves showed that more than 53 million clean and/or efficient cookstoves and fuels have been distributed from 2010-2015, and that the proportion of higher-performing cookstoves in the biomass stoves market is increasing every year. The 2016 Progress Report, which includes noteworthy accomplishments from across the clean…
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Webinar recording available: Political economy: A tool for addressing gender in the energy sector
A recording of today’s GECCO webinar on political economy as a tool for addressing gender in the energy sector and the associated presentations are now available online: http://genderandenvironment.org/resource/gecco-webinar-political-economy-tool-addressing-gender-energy-sector/ This webinar recording, Political economy: A tool for addressing gender in the energy sector, is part of the GECCO Energy Webinar Series. More information about the webinar’s content can be…
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Solar Sister: A passion for energy and women’s empowerment
Katherine Lucey, Founder and CEO of Solar Sister, spent more than 20 years as an investment banker focused in the energy sector. After taking time off banking to be with her family of five children, she began searching for ways to return to energy that were more personally fulfilling and socially impactful. After a trip…