Calls
Asia Forum for Clean Energy Financing
The Asia Forum for Clean Energy Financing is looking for high quality business proposals. The best proposals will be invited to the Forum that will be held on 4 March 2009 in Singapore for presentations to potential investors and financiers. Deadline for submission: 22 December 2008. More >>
Boiling Point: Cover Photo Competition
HEDON invites you to submit your best image to appear on the front cover of the upcoming edition of Boiling Point. The image should be a full colour photo illustrating liquid fuels and household energy (including paraffin, LPG and Biofuels). More >>
Call for Research Proposals: Gender and Innovation
This call aims to examine gender from a wider perspective of innovation systems in developing countries. Deadline for submitting concept notes: 19 December 2008. More >>
Sustainable Enterpise Fund - Call for Applications
This Fund makes use of equity or loan investments for innovative for-profit enterprises that yield financial, as well as social, economic and environmental returns. This call is only open to countries in South and South East Asia. View >>
Job Openings
ETC Foundation is inviting applications for the position of Energy Access programme officer
The Energy Access (EASE) programme of ETC works in Bolivia, Tanzania, Uganda, Senegal, Mali, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos and is looking to extend the team with a programme officer. Deadline for application: 7 December 2008. More >>
ProBEC National Coordinator Botswana
The Programme for Basic Energy and Conservation in Southern Africa (ProBEC) is looking for a National Coordinator in Botswana. The Coordinator is to facilitate the achievement of joint biomass programme objectives at the country level. More >>
New Initiatives
International Network on Household Energy in Humanitarian Settings
This network wants to help identify and institutionalize solutions to the security, environmental, technological, health and other concerns that arise around firewood collection and household energy use and supply in these settings. More >>
Publications
The Impact of Electricity: Development, Desires and Dilemmas
Tanja Winther, University of Oslo, November 2008
Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Zanzibar at different points in time, the author provides an account of the social implications of rural electrification, including gender implications. More >>
Will tomorrow be brighter than today? Addressing gender concerns in energy for poverty reduction in the Asia-Pacific region
UNDP, 2007
The UNDP commissioned rapid gap assessments in energy access at the national level for 30 countries in the Asia and Pacific regions, linking energy access to poverty reduction, and to identify steps necessary to bridge the gaps. The assessments stressed that improved access to energy services would contribute towards gender equality and empowerment of women besides reducing poverty and improving the overall development of poor areas. View >>
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News from the ENERGIA Secretariat
Gender and Climate Change Finance Workshop
19-20 November 2008, New York
In preparation for upcoming climate change negotiations in Poznan, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Global Gender and Climate Alliance (GGCA), in partnership with the Permanent Mission of Finland to the United Nations and Heinrich Böll Foundation North America, held the first global effort to ensure that climate change funds target women and men equitably. The workshop was organized in response to the fact that climate change finance mechanisms have had limited benefit for the poor and disadvantaged within developing countries, in particular women, who are emerging stakeholders in upcoming climate change negotiations.
ENERGIA participated at the workshop and was represented by Ms Ana Rojas (ENERGIA International Secretariat), Ms Gail Karlsson (ENERGIA policy advisor), Ms Yacine Diagne Gueye (ENDA-Tiers Monde, Senegal) and Ms Khamarunga Banda (South Africa). They provided good input into the discussions on the financial mechanisms, as well as present the constraints that community-based organisations face when trying to access these funds.
ENERGIA and the Global Gender and Climate Alliance (GGCA)
ENERGIA has recently become a member of GGCA. ENERGIA sees this as a strategic partnership in the gender, energy and climate change activities we plan to undertake. GGCA has supported the attendance of ENERGIA member Ms Feri Lumampao (Approtech-Asia, the Philippines) at the The Third Global Congress of Women in Politics and Governance, which had a special focus on gender in climate change and disaster risk reduction. The Congress was held mid-October 2008 in Manila, the Philippines. More about the Congress >>
GGCA is currently supporting a number of ENERGIA members to be gender and climate change trainers at the next climate change negotiations in Poznan and afterwards to give training workshops at regional and national level. ENERGIA also submitted a workplan to GGCA to undertake gender, energy and climate change activities with GGCA's support from 2009 onwards in both Asia and Africa. ENERGIA will partner with the African Gender and Climate Change Network (AGCN) for its work in Africa.
For more information about ENERGIA's climate change efforts, contact ENERGIA's climate change expert Ms Ana Rojas.
ENERGIA Network News
News from Asia
 Policy Innovation Forum Launched for Gender- and Poverty-Sensitive Energy Policies in the Asia-Pacific Region
Efforts to develop gender- and poverty-sensitive energy policies in Asia and the Pacific received a boost when experts and policy makers joined together to create a regional forum to help provide women and the poor with reliable access to energy.
The Policy Innovation Forum was officially launched by ENERGIA, in cooperation with UNESCAP, at the conclusion of the two-day meeting on 3-4 November in Bangkok, entitled 'High Level Regional Policy Meeting on Networking Towards Gender and Poverty Sensitive Energy Policies. More >>
ENERGIA Asia Regional Network Meeting
5-7 November, Bangkok, Thailand
This meeting was held for the ENERGIA Asia Network to share, learn, reflect and strategise. All nine countries where ENERGIA has a presence in Asia were represented at the meeting, which was also attended by Soma Dutta, the Regional Network Coordinator for Asia; by CRT Nepal, the Asia Regional Secretariat; by Nozipho Wright, Africa Regional Network Coordinator; and by Ana Rojas and Sheila Oparaoacha from the ENERGIA International Secretariat.
News from Africa
ENERGIA Africa Regional Network Meeting
9-11 December, Gabarone, Botswana
The Africa ENERGIA Network will also meet to share, learn and strategise. Representatives from all thirteen national gender and energy networks are expected to come to the meeting, which is being organised by BOTEC, the host of the ENERGIA Africa Regional Secretariat. The meeting will also be attended by Nozipho Wright, Africa Regional Network Coordinator, as well as representatives from the ENERGIA Asia network and from the ENERGIA International Secretariat.
Nigeria: Validation workshop of the gender audit of national energy policy
24-28 November, Abuja, Nigeria
A pre-validation and validation workshop have been held for the gender audits of Nigeria's national energy policy. The audits were undertaken by ENERGIA's national focal point organisation in the country, Friends of the Environment. The validation workshop is an important milestone in the gender audit process, as the gender audit team meets with the Energy Commission of Nigeria (ECN) to reach consensus and ownership of the gender audit findings within ECN and to discuss the recommendations and agree on actions with specific targets and timeframes to engender energy policy.
National training workshops in Africa
From 24-28 November two national capacity building workshops in gender and energy have taken place in Lesotho and Swaziland. Another training workshop will be held in Ghana before the end of 2008. These training workshops will build on capacity building efforts made under the TIE-ENERGIA programme, with a strong focus on mainstreaming gender into energy projects.
  
Photos (from left to right): PREDAS; IRADe; IUCN
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