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  • Sheila Oparaocha, Programme Manager of ENERGIA and a member of the Power for All Steering Committee talks about the critical role of women in achieving energy access in an interview with Power for All. This interview originally appeared on the Power for All website, for the full transcript please visit their website: http://www.powerforall.org/blog/2016/3/28/in-conversation-with-sheila-oparaocha

  • March 14, 2016, New York.  Solar Sister participated in the UN NGO Commission on the Status of Women (CSW60) official parallel event on the theme “Women’s Energy Entrepreneurship: Empowering Women and Scaling Access to Energy”. The event was organized by The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, ENERGIA and UN Women. The panel discussed women’s energy […]

  • This blog was originally posted on the website of the EFEWEE programme (Exploring Factors that Enhance and Restrict Women’s Empowerment through Electrification)   By Magi Matinga, Tanja Winther, Anjali Saini and Debajit Palit (on behalf of the EFEWEE Team)   Dear All, It has been a really exciting start to 2016 for the EFEWEE team! […]

  • For ENERGIA, every day is International Women’s Day! Together with eight partner organizations, we support over 3,000 women in seven countries in Africa and Asia, to become empowered entrepreneurs.  One of these women is Mrs. Kandé, who owns a dairy production business in Kolda, South Senegal. Mrs. Kandé started her dairy production in 2002. Despite […]

  •   As of March 1, 2016, Hivos became the legal host of longstanding partner ENERGIA. With the integration of ENERGIA, Hivos welcomes a network of member organisations in 22 countries (with a focus on Africa and Asia) that has played a major role in creating an institutional base for mainstreaming gender into the energy sector […]

  • Charcoal production, a predominantly male activity, is being reformed in Senegal’s Kaffrine region to reduce the negative impacts on the environment and include women on all levels of the value chain. Empowered by the Second Sustainable and Participatory Energy Management Project (PROGEDE II), which is funded by the World Bank and the Nordic Development Fund […]