Gender and Energy Innovation Facility
Project
The Gender and Energy Innovation Facility
Project status
Completed
Core countries
Kenya, Tanzania and Nepal
Project vision
To create a social innovation platform to identify new solutions for improving women’s access to and uptake of clean energy services.
Activities
The Gender and Energy Innovation Facility supported 11 pilot projects in Kenya, Tanzania and Nepal that developed, tested and evaluated innovative approaches to address persistent gender energy challenges. Ten of the projects were fully implemented and six were awarded an additional grant to scale up.
The projects were active in four main themes:
- Engaging governments to change policy or invest more in clean energy.
- Developing new products or services in the clean energy sector.
- Raising awareness about clean energy products.
- Increasing accessibility to clean energy products.
Impacts
By the conclusion of the program:
- The pilot project implementers had enhanced their knowledge and understanding of gender concepts and started adopting a gender lens in their inventions.
- The pilots generally succeeded in ‘shifting the needle’ towards gender equality in the energy sector, to a different extent and in different ways depending on their specific intervention.
- Female beneficiaries who joined training activities showed increased self-confidence.
Duration
April 2020 – September 2022
Who we worked with:
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency – Sida
Funding
Related links
For an overview of the projects:
- https://energia.org/innovative-approaches-to-close-the-gender-gaps-in-energy-in-kenya-tanzania-and-nepal/
- https://energia.org/gender-and-energy-innovation-facility-tanzania/
- https://energia.org/gender-and-energy-innovation-facility-nepal/
- https://energia.org/gender-and-energy-innovation-facility-kenya/
