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  • Violence against women and girls resource guide – Energy Brief

    This resource guide explores how infrastructure development, limited energy access, rising costs, workplace inequality, digitalisation and the energy transition can create or intensify these risks. It also shows how gender-responsive energy policies and projects can strengthen women’s safety, agency and economic participation.

  • 30 Years of Gender & Sustainable Energy Leadership (Sept 2026)

    Since its founding in 1996, ENERGIA has grown from a small awareness-raising newsletter into a global network of more than 140 partners in 26 countries. It is now recognized as an authority on gender, sustainable energy, and climate justice. This report, written by Soma Dutta, traces that 30-year journey. It shows how ENERGIA helped secure…

  • EXECUTIVE SUMMARY – Building Inclusive Clean Cooking Markets

    EXECUTIVE SUMMARY How can clean cooking markets become more inclusive, resilient, and effective? Drawing on lessons from the Strengthening the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem for Clean Cooking (SEE Clean Cooking) programme across eight countries in Africa and Asia, this publication presents a practical framework for integrating gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) into market systems development. It…

  • Building Inclusive Clean Cooking Markets: Gender Equality and Social Inclusion in the ‘Strengthening the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem for Clean Cooking’ Programme

    How can clean cooking markets become more inclusive, resilient, and effective? Drawing on lessons from the Strengthening the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem for Clean Cooking (SEE Clean Cooking) programme across eight countries in Africa and Asia, this publication presents a practical framework for integrating gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) into market systems development. It demonstrates how…

  • SDG 7 & Gender Gaps: Towards a Feminist Framework

    The absence of gender-responsive indicators within SDG 7 has created a structural barrier to understanding and addressing women’s energy use and needs. As a result, progress for women and girls as part of this SDG cannot be adequately tracked, measured, or achieved. A feminist framework for energy justice must move beyond access alone and address…

  • Accelerating Action on SDG7 and Its Interlinkages for a Final Push Towards 2030

    Sustainable Development Goal 7 — ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all — stands out as one of the brightest areas of progress across the 2030 Agenda. Over the last decade, more people have gained access to electricity than ever before, and the clean energy transition has gained irreversible momentum. Yet,…

  • Tracking SDG 7 – 2026 Report

    Tracking SDG 7 – 2026 Report

    Despite substantial progress since 2015—including significant increases in the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix and improvements in the global rate of energy efficiency—the achievement of the 2030 target of universal access to affordable, reliable, and modern energy services remains off track and uneven, particularly with respect to the huge remaining energy…

  • TA 6526 NEP – Project Completion Report

    This is the project completion report of TA 6526 NEP and presents the key activities and results of the project, in relation to the scope of work and objectives set out in the Terms of Reference (ToR) and the contract. The activities and results relate to two main outputs: Output 1: Strengthened capacity of NEA…

  • Lighting the Path to Empowerment: A Model for GESI Responsive Electrification

    Between 2021 and 2025, the ADB TA 6526 NEP project demonstrated that electrification becomes transformative when it purposefully  integrates Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) principles and approaches. The project reached electricity to 1,300 previously unelectrified households, supported 403 entrepreneurs (primarily women and disadvantaged groups) to create new business opportunities and strengthen existing business ventures…

  • Genre et inclusion sociale au Sahel: Implications pour le développement du marché des biodigesteurs

    Les femmes jouent un rôle central et multiforme sur le marché des biodigesteurs domestiques en  Afrique subsaharienne. Elles sont les principales utilisatrices et décideuses, et de plus en plus entrepreneuses et leaders dans les chaînes de valeur des biodig esteurs et des engrais d’effluents . Leur participation au marché des biodigesteurs est essentielle à l’adoption…

  • Gender and Social Inclusion in the Sahel: Implications for Biodigester Market Development

    Women play a pivotal, multifaceted role in the market for household biodigesters in Sub-Saharan Africa, acting as primary users and decision-makers, and increasingly as entrepreneurs and leaders in the biodigester and bioslurry fertiliser value chains. Their participation in the biodigester market is critical for the adoption and sustained use of the technology, and to long-term…

  • Women Driving the Energy Transition and Climate Justice: Impact Assessment of Women’s Economic Empowerment

    Women Driving the Energy Transition and Climate Justice: Impact Assessment of Women’s Economic Empowerment

    This Impact Assessment evaluates the economic empowerment of women entrepreneurs in the clean energy sector as a result of ENERGIA’s support, delivered via its partner organizations. The assessment focuses on determining how ENERGIA’s Phase 7 program has contributed to changes in the lives of women entrepreneurs, specifically in relation to decision-making, resilience, and business development.

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