Archives: Documents
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Off- and Weak-Grid Solar Appliance Market: Sierra Leone
The off-grid appliance market in Sierra Leone is nascent and the availability of off-grid appliances is limited, mainly due to low penetration of SHS kits, limited access to credit for customers and companies, and low disposable household incomes. However, there is a sizeable potential demand for SHS and off-grid appliances to reach the 80% of…
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The State of Access to Modern Energy Cooking Services
How we guide progress toward achieving access to modern-energy cooking solutions for all is more critical than ever before. To date, measurements of access have focused primarily on fuel penetration, overlooking many of the contextual factors that shape users’ adoption of stoves and fuels. Over the past decade, much attention has focused on expanding access…
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Power Equality: Women’s entrepreneurship transforming Asia’s energy sector
This publication examines energy access and the need to strengthen the livelihoods of the poor, especially women, in Asia. More critical today than ever before, as governments prepare to deal with the economic and human crisis that COVID 19 has brought with it, promoting women’s entrepreneurship in renewable energy provides a unique opportunity to achieve…
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Strategic Plan
With this strategy document, we—the ENERGIA network—share what we aim to achieve between 2018 – 2021. We also present how we intend to capitalise on our strengths to scale our collective impact, how we will improve our weaknesses and how we will find solutions to persistent and emerging issues around sustainable energy and equitable energy…
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From insights to action: Gender equality in the wake of COVID-19
The impacts of crises are never gender-neutral, and COVID‑19 is no exception. This publication summarizes data, research, and policy work by UN Women’s Policy and Programme Division on the pandemic’s impact on women and girls, including the impact on extreme poverty, employment, health, unpaid care, and violence against women and girls. The publication also brings…
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Coping with shock: Last-mile distributors and COVID-19
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Cooking Health Energy Environment and Gender (CHEEG) – Guiding COVID recovery plans
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Gender and Climate Change in the Context of COVID-19
COVID-19 is more than a public health crisis. It is a socio-economic crisis and has serious repercussions for the the most vulnerable members of our societies, particularly those who are also burdened by climate change. At the EmPower: Project with UNEP and UN Women, we’re making the connections between gender and climate change in the…
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SDG7 TAG Policy Briefs: Accelerating SDG7 Achievement in the time of COVID-19
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Gender-based violence and environment linkages
Rooted in discriminatory gender norms and laws and shrouded in impunity, gender-based violence (GBV) occurs in all societies as a means of control, subjugation and exploitation that further reinforces gender inequality. This publication establishes that these patterns of gender-based abuse are observed across environmental contexts, affecting the security and well-being of nations, communities and individuals,…
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Tracking SDG 7: The Energy Progress Report (2020)
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Gender and energy at center stage in COVID-19 battle: Powering a more gender-equal recovery
Women are on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic. They need modern and affordable energy to keep up the fight and support the recovery, to make their communities and businesses more resilient for the next pandemic. The coronavirus crisis is putting an unprecedented and enormous strain on the global economy and public health systems, and…