We believe that collective action is needed to achieve women’s empowerment, climate justice, and an inclusive and sustainable energy transition.
ENERGIA co-leads the Gender and Energy Compact, a global, multi-stakeholder coalition that catalyzes action towards gender equality and women’s empowerment to accelerate a just, inclusive and sustainable energy transition.
How the the Gender and Energy Compact works
Through the participation of almost 100 signatories, which include member states, government agencies and partners – including private sector, academia, civil society, youth and international organisations, the Gender and Energy Compact aims drive an inclusive energy transition by helping to:
- Increase women’s access to and control over sustainable energy products and services.
- Encourage countries and regions to reformulate and adopt more inclusive and gender-responsive energy access and transition pathways.
- Create entrepreneurship opportunities for women-led businesses.
- Develop tools, knowledge and gender-disaggregated data to measure progress and raise awareness and gender-disaggregated data to measure progress, raise awareness, and create an evidence base for inclusive, gender-responsive policy and program development.
By mobilizing collective action across a diverse range of key change makers in society, the Gender and Energy Compact helps amplify our impact towards an inclusive energy transition and gender equality.
The Gender and Energy Compact places women and gender equality at the center of SDG 7 to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all.
A global coalition
The Gender Energy Compact is coordinated by ENERGIA, the Global Women’s Network for the Energy Transition (GWNET), the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and Sustainable Energy for ALL (SEforALL).
