topics-n: Women’s entrepreneurship
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Workshop: Energy transition through the lens of gender equality
Date: April, 27 2021 Time: 9:15 – 12:30 CEST Location: Virtual event. Register: Register to attend here. (CLOSED) – The slides are now available here. The event aims to bring together decision-makers, energy professionals and academics to discuss three main aspects of gender equality in the energy transition: 1. Gender mainstreaming in the energy sector: to…
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Webinar: Women as Catalysts in the Future of Energy Access
Date: March 18, 2021 Time: 6:30 PM in Mumbai, Kolkata, New Delhi Location: Virtual event. Watch the recording of the live stream here. Smart Power India, The Rockefeller Foundation and Power For All are hosting a webinar on “Women as Catalysts in the Future of Energy Access” on the 18th of March 2021. The event…
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Event: Building community resilience by scaling up women’s access to technologies and strengthening voice and leadership
Date: 8-12 March 2021 Location: Virtual event. Flyer of the session: here. Link to recording: here. Hosted by the Ministry of the Environment of Japan, together with the Asia-Pacific Adaptation Network Secretariat at UN Environment Programme, the 7th Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum was held virtually on 8-12 March 2021 under the theme: Enabling Resilience…
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Women at the heart of energy access: ENERGIA calls for gender inclusion and equality in the energy sector
This International Women’s Day, ENERGIA and partners celebrate all the women working in the energy sector and stress once more why it is so important to include them in the energy conversation and action. Globally, 789 million people live without access to electricity and 2.8 billion lack access to clean cooking. Women are disproportionately impacted…
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Event: Empowering women and youth to accelerate the clean energy transition – Vienna Energy Transition
Date: January, 12 2021 Time: 2 pm CET Location: Virtual event. Register: (CLOSED). To access the webinar recording, please click here. This session focused on women and youth empowerment to catalyse an inclusive energy transition. The Session explored local and innovative solutions that have the power to lead a transformative change in the energy sector…
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Solidarity Fund supports female entrepreneurs during the corona crisis
Together with our partners, we have helped nearly 5,000 women energy entrepreneurs across Africa and Asia over the past five years. Through their sustainable energy businesses, these women work to create a better future for their families and their communities. But the corona pandemic has put all of that at risk. They are women who…
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Rosmiaty Lantara (ENERGIA/Hivos)
Rosmiaty Lantara is an Indonesian biogas entrepreneur, supported by the Hivos BIRU biogas program, which contributes to a transition toward broad renewable energy use and greener societies. Rosmiaty founded her biogas construction company, CV Rizki Abadi, in 2016, with the goal of raising awareness about clean cooking fuels throughout her province of South Sulawesi. Rosmiaty…
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Oluwakemi Ojewoye (ENERGIA/Solar Sister)
Oluwakemi Ojewoye is a solar energy entrepreneur in Nigeria. Her business journey started in 2016, when her husband bought a solar lamp from a woman entrepreneur in their district. Regular and long-lasting power cuts impacted their daily lives, leaving them completely in the dark after sunset. The solar lamp made a huge difference to their…
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Charlot Magayi (Mukuru Stoves)
Charlot Magayi is the CEO and founder of Mukuru Stoves, a social enterprise that recycles waste metal to produce clean cookstoves for low-income households. Mukuru Stoves was originally based in Nairobi, selling to urban households, but moved its operations to western Kenya to better serve those most in need. Their business model focuses on partnering…
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Neha Juneja (Greenway Appliances)
Neha Juneja is one of the co-founders of Greenway Appliances, the largest clean cooking company in India, with recently expanded operations in Zambia. India’s response to COVID19 has had profound impacts on Greenway. With India having the fourth largest number of COVID cases at the time, the country went into a strict lockdown in March,…
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Esther Altorfer (Sistema.bio)
Esther Altorfer joined Sistema.bio six years ago, serving in various functions across the finance and operations departments. Sistema.bio is a global social enterprise that first launched in Mexico 10 years ago, and has since expanded operations across Latin America, East Africa, and India. Premised on empowering smallholder farmers, Sistema.bio’s biogas systems convert animal into clean…
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COVID-19 and Women’s Energy Entrepreneurship: A conversation with five women entrepreneurs about adapting to a crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic has created new and unusual obstacles for industries around the world. The clean cooking and sustainable energy sectors are no exceptions. Women entrepreneurs are rising to the challenge, even as many are bearing additional responsibilities. To better understand these challenges, Sustainable Energy for All, the Clean Cooking Alliance, ENERGIA, and members of…