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Women’s Economic Empowerment & Policy Influencing

Providing 2,000,000 consumers with sustainable energy services strengthening 3,000 women-led businesses in the delivery these services.
Click to find out more about our Women’s Economic Empowerment programme

Reaching over fourteen million people in five countries, with awareness raising activities, lobbying, a media presence and public events.
Click to find out more about our Gender and Energy Advocacy programme

  • NEW: Supporting last-mile women energy entrepreneurs: What works and what does not

  • New research shows biogas as alternative solution to clean cooking

  • How Suku Maya Majhi is contributing to energy access for all by selling clean cookstoves

  • Last Mile Learning: Why Small Solutions are Making a Big Impact

  • Last Mile Learning: The Power of Social Networks

  • Neha Shrestha

    When a dream comes true: Neha Shrestha and her story of beauty

  • Wonder Woman

    A life as Wonder Woman in Indonesia with Kopernik

  • “If we walk together, we can do it”

  • Last Mile Learning: How local assistance and trust motivate last-mile customers

  • ENERGIA’s Sheila Oparaocha at the SDG7 Conference

  • 22 Feb. – Webinar: Productive Uses of Energy and Gender in the Informal Food Sector in Rwanda, Senegal and South Africa

  • Senegal takes a giant leap towards gender mainstreaming in national energy policies and programmes

  • Helping women entrepreneurs scale-up rural supply chains to reach last mile markets

  • Women’s economic empowerment project enhances entrepreneurs’ business acumen and accelerates renewable energy access in Senegal

  • The weekend read: Empowerment and energy in India

  • A step towards energy-access equality in Ghana

  • Researching for Greater Energy Equality: Highlights from research workshop and annual ENERGIA and partners’ programme meeting

  • Strengthening Gender Equality and Increasing Women’s Participation in the Ethiopian Power Sector

  • Equalizing access to cleaner energy in Indonesia: The evidence for pro-poor and gender-inclusive energy policy reform

  • Advancing women’s leadership to tackle the impacts of climate change

  • Keeping the Lights On: ENERGIA and Solar Sister’s successful partnership leverages women’s power to tackle energy poverty

  • Seizing on solar and women power in India

  • An Interview with Sheila Oparaocha: “Others have recognised the credibility of our key messages”

  • Cultivating women’s inner strength and capacities for entrepreneurship

  • Exploring energy issues for women entrepreneurs in guatemala

  • Innovative public outreach in Indonesia

  • PRESS RELEASE: Women need a seat at the clean energy table

  • Famous singer lending her voice to the cause of expanding energy access and women’s opportunities

  • A cookstoves producer who never gives up

  • Five outstanding women entrepreneurs from Myanmar

  • Breaking down barriers in clean energy entrepreneurs’ access to finance

  • Reaching the last mile in the extremely energy poor Asia-Pacific

  • New Video: Empower Women, Energise the World!

  • Interview with Soma Dutta: “Women can play a central role in expanding energy access at the last mile”

  • RSPN wins ADB Civil Society Partnership Award

  • Successful efforts to integrate gender into energy policies and investments in Senegal

  • Tackling the ‘last mile’ energy access challenge through women’s economic empowerment

  • ENERGIA participates in successful SEforALL Forum, recognizing women entrepreneurs from Africa and Asia

  • Meet the winners of the ENERGIA Women Entrepreneurship Award

  • Women can be true change makers in the scaling up of energy access

  • Influencing policies, investments and public opinion

  • Sheila Oparaocha joins Energy 4 Impact’s Board of Trustees

  • Empowered women securing energy access in rural Senegal

  • Changing gender dynamics through energy access and economic empowerment

  • Women must take center stage in energy policies and investments

  • Working with young people and their educators in Nepal

  • Five role models win ENERGIA Women Entrepreneurship Award 2017

  • Solar Sister: A passion for energy and women’s empowerment

  • Webinar – Technology and data collection: Allies in women-centric energy access programmes

  • Agency building as part of integral support to women entrepreneurs

  • Celebrities rooting for energy access

  • Vlogging about selling clean energy products in East Flores

  • From the digital world to real-life engagement

  • Kopernik develops impact tracker technology catalogue

  • New initiative to bolster women’s involvement in the energy sector

  • Poor People’s Energy Outlook 2016

  • The story of energy access

  • #WESHINE: Sharing the story of light, hope and opportunity

  • Partnerships to scale up energy delivery

  • New business opportunities through solar off-grid refrigeration

  • Women’s Economic Empowerment: The results so far

  • Selling clean energy technologies pays off!

  • It’s like Amway, except with solar-powered lights and ovens in the African bush

  • From basket weavers to salt farmers: the women leading a renewables revolution

  • Introduction to Solar Sister

  • ICRW assesses Solar Sister’s women-entrepreneur model

  • WOMEN + ENERGY: #WESHINE

  • ENERGIA Receives Award for Contribution to Gender Equality at Inclusive Energy Solutions Conference

  • I no longer need the support from my estranged husband: I am a self-employed women

  • With proper knowledge, reducing electricity cost and consumption is not hard

  • Spicing up the family finances: From basic entrepreneurship training to a successful spice grinding business

  • Small steps, big differences: An entrepreneur in the making

  • Regional gender review of energy policies and programmes, South Asia

  • Gender review of energy policies and programmes, Sri Lanka

  • Gender review of energy policies and programmes, Nepal

  • Gender review of energy policies and programmes, Bhutan

  • Energy giant TOTAL and women entrepreneurs join forces

  • In conversation with Sheila Oparaocha

  • CWS 60 recap: Women’s Energy Entrepreneurship: Empowering Women and Scaling Access to Energy

  • ENERGIA celebrates International Women’s Day all year round

  • Photo credit: Daniella van Leggelo-Padilla/World Bank

    Rural Senegalese Women Spearhead Sustainable Energy Management in Kaffrine

  • Ensuring the inclusion of clean cooking in the SDG Indicator Framework

  • Gender, Energy and Clean Cooking Solutions on the agenda at SE4ALL 3rd Annual Workshop

  • Practical Action: Women in Energy Enterprises in Kenya

  • Solar Sister brings light, hope and opportunity

  • Sister to Sister, Stove by Stove

  • Kopernik wins prestigious Zayed Future Energy Prize 2016

  • WE Shine

  • What role do women play in the energy sector in Senegal?

  • Sharing experiences at COP21: How a Community Hydroelectric Plant Project can Empower Women

  • Meet Neha Misra, The Person Empowering Women In Africa Using Simple Solar Lights

  • Kopernink wins UNDP Peace Innovation Challenge

  • ENERGIA News — LPG: Increasing the energy options benefitting women worldwide

  • A Light, a Pig, and a Dream

  • Getting Cooking Energy Right in the Post-2015 Indicators

  • Unlocking energy access impacts through gender-sensitive approaches

  • Boiling Point Issue 66: Women, Energy and Economic Empowerment

  • ENERGIA at the 2015 Vienna Energy Forum

  • Working Together for Good

  • Making a difference by producing charcoal briquettes

  • Watch Josephine Ngumba – Energy Entrepreneur from Kenya by Practical Action

  • President Clinton visits Solar Sister’s site in Tanzania

  • Empowering Women and Eradicating Energy Poverty in Africa: Schwab Foundation Honors Solar Sister CEO Katherine Lucey

  • Senegalese Women Makes Inroads In Energy Markets

  • Improving gender inclusive access to clean & renewable energy

  • Women, Energy & Economic Empowerment Panel discussion

  • Kopernik’s Wonder Women in Eastern Indonesia

  • Women’s Economic Empowerment

  • Call for Proposals Gender and Advocacy programme – CLOSED

  • Cooking with Gas: Why women in developing countries want LPG and how they can get it

  • Clean Cooking Heroes by Semfund

  • Kopernik: Serving the last mile

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    • Centre for Rural Technology Nepal

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