On October 12, 2017, at the inaugural meeting of its governing council, the World Bank Group launched a US$340 million facility to support women entrepreneurs in developing countries and increase their access to the finance, markets, technology, and networks. According to the Bank, 70 percent of women-owned, small and medium-size businesses in developing countries lack access to […]
ECREEE, CTCN and PFAN have launched a call for proposals for women-led sustainable energy enterprises in West-Africa, as part of the CTCN/ECOWAS Project on Mainstreaming Gender for a Climate-Resilient Energy System in West Africa. Women-led businesses employing clean energy solutions to facilitate women’s economic empowerment in the ECOWAS countries and seeking investments of up to USD 50 million are invited to […]
Applications for the Mandela Washington Fellowship of the Young African Leaders Initiative is open from 13 September to 11 October. Launched in 2014, the Mandela Washington Fellowship is YALI’s flagship program. It brings up to 1,000 African civic, business and community leaders aged 25–35 for six weeks of academic coursework, leadership training and networking at U.S. universities. For more information and to […]
The Green Climate Fund is seeking a Gender and Social Specialist to mainstream gender in all of the Fund’s operations, policy work and initiatives; to provide support on addressing social aspects so as to ensure the operations’ compliance with the Fund’s Environmental and Social Safeguards; and engendering adaptation and mitigation strategies and promoting practical approaches […]
Visionaria Network is now accepting applications for the Empowered Entrepreneur Training Fund (EETF). EETF is a small grants fund designed to partially subsidize training programs for organizations working to sell cookstoves and other energy products in East Africa to train their sales staff or entrepreneurs in critical business, empowerment and leadership training. The EETF will support organizations in […]
Ashden is seeking entries for its 2018 Awards, the world’s leading green energy awards. Ashden wants to hear from enterprises and programmes in the UK, developing countries and emerging economies that are blazing a trail in increasing access to energy, demonstrating excellence in sustainable buildings, promoting cleaner forms of transport, and driving innovation in the […]
Stockholm, 29 Aug 2017 – The Green Climate Fund is helping to level the playing field of climate action with the launch today of its first gender guide to climate finance. GCF Executive Director Howard Bamsey and Swedish Minister for International Development Cooperation and Climate Isabella Lövin (who is also the country’s Deputy Prime Minister) unveiled the gender manual during World Water […]
The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves has released a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) for a potential applied research study on clean cooking and unpaid work. Contingent on approval of funding (up to $150,000), the Alliance is seeking to identify qualified partners to help improve the sector’s understanding of the impacts on girls and women’s livelihoods, […]
GenderCC – Women for Climate Justice are seeking a project coordinator for an international project on gender and urban climate policy. The position is based in Berlin, Germany. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, and candidates should be able to join the team as soon as possible (May/June 2017). Gender CC is a global network […]
The ECOWAS Centre for Regional Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ECREEE) will commission a feasibility study on business opportunities for women in a changing energy value chain in west Africa (see full project title and reference below). This study will be funded through a Grant from African Development Bank through the NEPAD – Infrastructure Project Preparation Facility […]
UN Women, Myanmar, is looking for an International Research Consultant to produce a research report on gender equality and women’s rights perspectives in the development of mini grid rules and regulations, and to design and present the report at a validation workshop. Deadline: 25 April 2017. Read more.
Are you driven by a desire to contribute to gender equality, women empowerment and poverty reduction by scaling up energy access in development countries? Do you have knowledge and experience in project management and administration? Are you keen to be part of a process that translates project interventions and their implementation into concrete outcomes? Are […]
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