The application process for the 2017 Ashden Awards is now open. Awardees will receive up to £20,000 in prize money, tailored support to help scale-up as well as access to new networks and investors. The Awards are looking for pioneering enterprises and programmes demonstrating achievement in 7 areas – details of which along with application […]
Technology and data collection: Allies in women-centric energy access programmes A webinar is organized by IUCN’s GECCO initiative and ENERGIA Energy is fundamental to development. Energy access interventions are designed to reduce energy poverty and have the opportunity of doing so while also addressing gender gaps–i.e., increasing well-being and lifting women and their families out of poverty. As a […]
Support micro- and small scale women entrepreneurs to become successful business owners is much more than providing them with technical skills. Agency building is at least as important. But what is agency? How do you build, develop or strengthen it? Why is it so important? Unequal relations and standards Merriam-Webster defines agency as ‘a person […]
Watch an interview with ENERGIA’s International Coordinator Sheila Oparaocha on Himalaya TV, Nepal. Sheila talks not only about the situation in Nepal, but also explains why it is important to include women in the energy supply chain, as providers as well as consumers.
Getting people to understand and care for an issue gets a boost when celebrities root for your case. Our partners running public campaigns to raise awareness on the linkages between poverty, gender inequality and energy access, know this as no other. These campaigns have been endorsed by national celebrities. And it paid off. Together, they have reached […]
Trisa Triandesa was one of the three selected volunteers in Koperkink’s #IDWomen4Energy programme. He lived for a month with one of Kopernik’s Wonder Women, to help her in her businesses, collecting merchandise and selling it. The enthusiastic actor and media consultant vlogged about his experience. Watch Trisa here, as he takes you along on his adventure!
For our Gender and Energy Advocacy Programme partner Kopernik’s Ina Saptiono had to create an engaging public advocacy campaign to raise awareness about women’s role in opening up energy access. Ideas and brainstorm sessions turned into a successful volunteering program. From over 100 applicants, three volunteers were chosen to accompany and assist three of Kopernik’s […]
The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves’ Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Award recognizes outstanding female leaders in the household energy sector who are advancing clean cooking solutions in emerging markets. The Woman Entrepreneur of the Year will receive: US$1,000 grant to be used towards the winner’s activities in the clean cookstoves & fuels sector. Sponsorship […]
A catalogue of affordable, simple tools to help you collect data, communicate with clients and measure impact What if nonprofits and social enterprises had an affordable way to report real-time, large-scale data on their social impact? This question inspired Kopernik to create this catalogue. The Impact Tracker Technology (ITT) catalogue features a compilation of […]
A webinar is organized by IUCN’s GECCO initiative and ENERGIA Energy is fundamental to development. Energy access interventions are designed to reduce energy poverty and have the opportunity of doing so while also addressing gender gaps–i.e., increasing well-being and lifting women and their families out of poverty. As a result of this rationale there has been a surge of […]
Please join the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (Alliance) on Monday, October 24 at 8:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) for a webinar designed for Alliance new and existing partners. This webinar is part of a series that provides an introduction to the Alliance for new and current partners and an overview of how […]
Energy 4 Impact is scheduled to officially launch a new programme that seeks to boost women’s involvement in the renewable energy value chain in East Africa. Funding for the two-year Women Integration into Renewable Energy (WIRE) Value Chains programme was secured in early September 2016. It seeks to integrate 400 women in rural Kenya and […]
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