Focal area: Women’s entrepreneurship
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WOMEN + ENERGY: #WESHINE
Solar Sister is excited to share the story of light, hope, and opportunity in Tanzania. Women + Energy: WESHINE is a campaign to raise awareness and support for energy access and economic opportunity for women. Solar Sister released the first two video portraits of women entrepreneurs who are bringing clean energy to their communities… and the…
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I no longer need the support from my estranged husband: I am a self-employed women
Abandoned by her husband, Tulasi Kumal takes sole care of her three-year-old daughter. With the support of a CRT/N – ADB – ENERGIA project, she was able to expand her tailoring shop. Tulasi now makes a profit of NPR 6,000 (USD 58), employs two other women and is training five more. Tulasi Kumal lives…
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Spicing up the family finances: From basic entrepreneurship training to a successful spice grinding business
In Nepal, Durga Niraula went from depending on her husband’s unstable income for financing family needs to becoming the respected owner of a well-run business and is now a role model for other women in her community. It all came about because she participated in business training supported by ADB and ENERGIA. Durga Niraula…
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Small steps, big differences: An entrepreneur in the making
Through participating in an ADB-supported RSPN – ENERGIA training programme on the use of electricity for production, product improvement and skills enhancement, bamboo crafter Ugyen Choden (second from left) has more than doubled her income. Ugyen Choden is a 27-year-old single mother of two who lives in the village of Bjoka Trong in Lower…
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Exploring Factors that Enhance and restrict Women’s Empowerment through Electrification (EFEWEE) – Scoping study report
The overall objective of this independent research project is to examine how policy and practice may enhance women’s empowerment though electrification in rural areas in the South. We consider women’s empowerment as a process towards gender equality, hence a concept that requires analytic attention to women, men, girls and boys. We divide the work into…
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The Gender Factor in Political Economy of Energy Sector Dynamics – Scoping study report
This research proposal is based on the premise that it is necessary to include gender concerns in the political economy of energy access. In addition to a structural analysis of power in conventional concerns of political economy, we underscore the need for a gender analysis of political and economic processes to understand the strategic energy…
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Solar Sister brings light, hope and opportunity
Solar Sister was founded on the idea that women have the potential to bring light, hope and opportunity to their communities. The organization provides technical, business, sales and marketing training to women in Africa. The training helps the women start small businesses, which sell sustainable energy products to their communities. Additionally, their network of entrepreneurs and…
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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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Mainstreaming gender in energy sector practice and policy lessons from the ENERGIA International Network
The commissioned research focused on using evidence from ENERGIA’s experience with gender approaches to build insights for future implementation and to inform policy and practice according to the Theory of Change as presented by UK’s Department for International Development (DFID). These approaches have been widely used by ENERGIA through a range of projects and programmes…
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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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A Light, a Pig, and a Dream
A Solar Business, a Woman’s Enterprise Alice is a Solar Sister Entrepreneur from Uganda. So far, with the profits from her solar business, she has bought a pig for her farm. Her next investment will be a goat, and then she plans to buy a cow at the end of 4 months. Each one of…
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