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Khamarunga Banda
It is with deep sadness and shock that the ENERGIA network has responded to the passing away of Khamarunga Banda, ENERGIA member and friend. Khamarunga passed away on December 8, after months of battling bone cancer. She was in hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa. A memorial service was conducted at the Calgary Methodist Church, on Saturday, 12 December 2009 and she has been put to rest in her home country of Zambia on December 15.
Khamarunga will be remembered for her tireless efforts to improve the lives of poor women through increased access to energy. Within the ENERGIA network, she was an inspiration and a driving force for exploring new areas of the linkages between gender & climate change, and gender & biofuels. Khamarunga will be missed, not only for the gap she is leaving behind professionally, but also as a person. She was a good friend to many, who remember her enthousiasm, her joy and her beautiful smile. May you rest in peace, Khamarunga.
Nigeria ENERGIA Network Launches Website
ENERGIA is happy to announce the launch of the website of the Nigeria ENERGIA Network (NEN). The website will be used as a networking tool for NEN and will keep you informed of the latest updates on gender and energy related issues and activities from Nigeria. View >>
Gender and Energy Network of Zimbabwe Launches Webpage
GENEZ, the Gender and Energy Network of Zimbabwe, has its own webpage, hosted by the focal point organisation Practical Action Southern Africa. Through the webpage, GENEZ will keep you updated on the activities it undertakes and the resources developed. The two issues of the GENEZ newsletter are available for download. View >>
Biofuels for Sustainable Rural Development and Empowerment of Women: Case Studies from Africa and Asia
ENERGIA and IUCN, 2009 (Editors: Gail Karlsson and Khamarunga Banda)
This book of case studies represents a collaborative effort to explore the potential of biofuels to provide sustainable livelihoods and local sources of energy for people in rural areas of developing countries, with a special emphasis on women. Although there are many forms of bio-energy that can be useful in this regard, our focus in this book is on plant products, mostly seeds, used to produce oil - which is then either utilized directly in engines or equipment, or processed into biodiesel.
The pre-print version is now available for download here.
Open Calls
EU Energy Facility launches second call for proposals
The Energy Facility is a co-financing instrument established in 2005 in order to support projects on increasing access to sustainable and affordable energy services for the poor living in rural and peri-urban areas in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. A new call for proposals, with a total budget of €100 million has just been launched. Deadline for application: 1 February 2010. More >>
BiD Network Access to Clean Energy Challenge
The BiD Network launched a business plan competition for entrepreneurs that deliver access to clean energy in developing countries. Deadline for submitting the complete business plan: 15 January 2010. More >>
BiD Network Access to Clean Energy Challenge East Africa
The BiD Network has launched this business plan competition for entrepreneurs that deliver access to clean energy in Kenya, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. The deadline for submitting complete business plans: 15 January 2010. More >>
Vacancies
ETC Foundation is looking for a Lead Consultant in Technical Training
The lead consultant will develop the technical and vocational education and training cluster of the ETC Foundation in cooperation with a team of three colleague TVET experts. The lead consultant will be based in the Netherlands, at the ETC Foundation office in Leusden. More >>
Green Empowerment is hiring an Executive Director
Green Empowerment partners with rural communities and locally-based organisations in the developing world to build renewable energy and water systems. The Executive Director is hired by and reports to the Board of Directors and is responsible for all the work of the organisation. The organisation seeks a hands-on manager actively involved in all aspects of its work. More >>
Related Initiatives
Climatedeal.org Launched
Climatedeal.org has been launched to enable energy experts participate on public dialogue, post relevant and specific questions so they can be openly answered as post-COP15 discussions arise. More specific you may find Q&As related to energy, renewables, emission reduction, climate policy and more, using state of the art web technology. View >>
Energy for Sustainable Development Online Course at Lund University
The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) at Lund University, Sweden, is delivering a new session of an online course in the field of Energy for Sustainable Development. The next course session is scheduled from 18 January -12 March 2010. Application deadline is: 4 January 2010. More >>
ESMAP program provides gender-based interventions for equitable development
Under ESMAP’s new Strategic Business Plan 2008-2013, the Gender & Energy Development Strategies (GEDS) Technical Assistance Program has made progress. GEDS is building on the significant gender-sensitive work that has already been done in the energy sector and connecting with the energy task team leaders (TTLs) and regional activities that have strategic potential for including gender based interventions. The GEDS program in 2010 will include (i) gender based impact of energy service provision; (ii) enhancing women’s economic opportunities in energy SME development; (iii) gender dimension in climate change mitigation and adaptation; (iv) knowledge generation, dissemination and outreach; (v) capacity building of government counterparts and facilitating counterpart partnership. More >>
Partnerships expanded on gender mainstreaming in energy projects for the Pacific
A project titled “Gender Mainstreaming into IUCN ORO Pacific Energy Ecosystems and Sustainable Livelihoods Initiative” (EESLI) developed earlier this year by the Pacific Energy and Gender Network (PEG) with funding support from ENERGIA and IUCN ORO. The project will focus on developing the capacity of the IUCN Energy Project Coordinators and relevant stakeholders on gender mainstreaming. More >>
Launch of Smoke in the Kitchen Web Space
Shell Foundation India has recently launched this webspace to help build a community focussed on indoor air pollution, as well as share the latest developments and on-the-ground progress. You can view the web pages here.
Publications
Climate Change Connections: Gender & Population
A comprehensive resource kit from UNFPA and WEDO on gender, population and climate change. Learn how gender equality can reduce vulnerability to climate change impacts and how women are uniquely positioned to help curb the harmful consequences of a changing climate. View >>
State of World Population 2009 - UNFPA
Facing a Changing World - Women, Population and Climate Change
Women bear the disproportionate burden of climate change, but have so far been largely overlooked in the debate about how to address problems of rising seas, droughts, melting glaciers and extreme weather, concludes The State of World Population 2009, released by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund. The publication argues that the international community’s fight against climate change is more likely to be successful if policies, programmes and treaties take into account the needs, rights and potential of women. View >>
Adivasi Women: Engaging with Climate Change
Govind Kelkar, 2009
The publication aims to decipher the gendered impact of climate change in indigenous societies in Asia with a particular focus on the Adivasi ethnic and tribal group of India. It also intends to increase understanding of how these impacts are exacerbated by structural shifts in Advasi socio-economic systems resulting from their colonial history, more recent efforts at privatization and gendered roles within the Adivasi communities. In conclusion, the study offers policy recommendations to enhance women’s resiliency to these impacts. View >>
