Category: Sector News
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Rural Senegalese Women Spearhead Sustainable Energy Management in Kaffrine
Charcoal production, a predominantly male activity, is being reformed in Senegal’s Kaffrine region to reduce the negative impacts on the environment and include women on all levels of the value chain. Empowered by the Second Sustainable and Participatory Energy Management Project (PROGEDE II), which is funded by the World Bank and the Nordic Development Fund…
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World Bank Charts Show Gender Gaps We Still Need to Close
The World Bank Group has just launched a new gender data portal that brings together data on topics ranging from education, demographics, and health to jobs, asset ownership, and political participation. The World Bank also just released the Little Data Book on Gender 2016 along with online tables that are linked to the latest data available…
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WE Shine
When you live in a world where electricity is available anytime with the flick of a switch, it can be hard to imagine how life-changing a single solar lamp or a more efficient cookstove can be. But then you meet our Solar Sister entrepreneurs, and see the smiles on the faces of their customers– students…
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Meet Neha Misra, The Person Empowering Women In Africa Using Simple Solar Lights
Samenvatting: Neha Misra, co-founder and ENERGIA partner Solar Sister is featured in a nice article by Forbes.com.
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Powering Change: Can rural electrification close the gender gap?
This new IGC blog describes evidence from a rural electrification project in Peru which suggests that access to energy may be an effective tool in closing the gender gap, affecting both wages and occupational choice. Between 2007 and 2010, the Peruvian Government invested around US$657 million in 567 electrification projects, reaching 412 districts in rural Peru and almost…
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Bloomberg’s New Energy Finance’s Liebreich recognises the importance of gender in the energy sector.
Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s latest blog by Chaiman Michael Liebreich presents a thought-provoking view on energy sector reform where he recognises the importance of gender and advocates for an inclusive and fair energy sector. To read more on his views, please see his blog online or download the PDF.
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Course Invitation: Regional Course South East Asia – The process of social impact assessmen
Hanoi, Vietnam October 26–30, 2015 Achieving Sustainable Hydropower – Social Impact Assessment Course As investment opportunities in hydropower take off in Southeast Asia, it is vital for hydropower development to follow good international industry practices so that projects are developed and operated in an environmentally and socially sustainable way. The International Centre for Hydropower (ICH) and IFC are pleased to invite…
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Introducing the Renewable Equity Project (REP) – Women’s Advancement on the Expansion of the Clean Energy Economy
CIERP is pleased to announce the launch of the Renewable Equity Project (REP), a new initiative to explore the impact of women’s advancement on the expansion of the clean energy economy. The project is developing cutting edge research geared toward energy sector institutions as well as innovative methods for building gender diversity in the clean energy…
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Zanzibar’s ‘Solar Mamas’ flip the switch on rural homes and gender roles
Fourteen year-old Nuru Sheha studies at night in the light of solar-powered LED lights at home in the village of Matemwe, on the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar. He family’s first electrical system was installed by one of Zanzibar’s 13 “solar mamas,” illiterate women trained in India to be solar power engineers. Able now to study…
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Green Asia Grants of up to $5,000 to NGOs/CSOs Working in Asia
Deadline: 8 July 2015 The Korea Green Foundation’s Green Asia Grants annually provides financial aid to NGOs, civic organizations in the Asia region and this is the five consecutive year, it has been held. The Green Asia Grant supports environmental campaign, education and research projects by CSOs in Asian regions. It aims to support activities of CSOs…
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NGOs, public and private sector exchange during ACEF kick off
The 2015 Asia Clean Energy Forum kicked off on Sunday in Manila with a Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) Consultation Workshop, bringing together leaders from public sector, private sector and civil society organisations working on energy in the Asia-Pacific region. The most impassioned intervention came from Harish Hande of SELCO-India, arguing that funders need to…
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Landmark Resolution on Indoor Air Pollution from World Health Assembly
Delegates at the World Health Assembly adopted a resolution to address the health impacts of air pollution – the world’s largest single environmental health risk. Every year 4.3 million deaths occur from exposure to indoor air pollution and 3.7 million deaths are attributable to outdoor air pollution. This was the first time the Health Assembly…