Topics

• Impact of improved cooking solutions on women empowerment
• Monitoring and evaluation of clean energy funding programs
• Assessment and measurement frameworks for energy access with gender focus
• Health and climate vulnerability at the household level

Sessions

• • Addressing Women's Needs in the Off-Grid Solar Sector

    
    

    Wednesday, February 15th, 2023, 3 pm CET

    
    
    

    Rebecca Rhodes

    Senior Project Manager – Consumer protection, circularity and technology, GOGLA
    

    • How can customer protection in the off-grid sector (OGS) sector address women empowerment along the value chain?
    • How to address women's needs from OGS companies? How do companies address them through: customer-centric approaches / impact metrics / decision-making processes / leadership positions?
    • How to improve outcomes for women customers when enhancing energy access worldwide?
    • How are partners advancing in their journeys addressing women's empowerment? What are the challenges ahead and the role of GOGLA in boosting it impact?

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    About the speaker: Rebecca leads GOGLA’s work on Consumer Protection, Circularity and Technology. In this role, she manages programmes that aim to define, improve and enhance standards of operational performance in the off-grid solar sector to safeguard social and environmental impacts and benefit consumers, companies and investors alike.
    
    She also works to promote a gender-forward industry and market-based solutions for energy access in humanitarian settings. Rebecca brings first-hand experience of PAYGo Solar Home System distribution in Tanzania, Rwanda and Kenya, with specific focus on strategic development, improving credit management, after-sales services and operational standards.

    
    

  • The Gender Perspective Within Energy Sector Interventions

    
    

    Wednesday, March 1st, 2023, 3 pm CET

    
    
    

    Nathyeli Acuña Castillo

    Gender Specialist, Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) at The World Bank
    
    
    
    

    • How to include the gender perspective within energy sector interventions to foster women's active participation?
    • How to promote energy use for productive uses (income-generating activities) among women-owned businesses?
    • How to address gender discussions in energy plans with governments?
    • What resources can guide energy and further interested stakeholders interested in enhancing energy access to learn about the linkages between gender and energy access (cooking and electricity access)?
    • What are the steps for integrating gender considerations into clean cooking programs?
    
    

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    About the speaker: Nathyeli is leading the ESMAP Gender and Energy Program. Her work focuses on the inclusion of the gender perspective within Energy Sector interventions to foster women's participation in the sector, promote the use of productive uses of energy among women-owned businesses, and include more women as users of energy. Within the World Bank, she has been leading the implementation of the new Gender and Energy program globally while also providing gender technical support to the Africa region of the World Bank.
    
    Before joining ESMAP, Nathyeli worked as a gender expert for the Inter-American Development Bank. She was also a consultant for gender and urban mobility in climate change adaptation and mitigation projects. Nathyeli holds an Economics degree from the Costa Rica University and a Master´s in Urban Economics from the Torcuato Di Tella University (Argentina).

    
    

  • Empowering Women & Youth in the Energy Access Supply Chain

    
    

    Wednesday, March 15th, 2023, 3 pm CET

    
    
    
    Gina Rodolico
    Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, UNCDF
    
    
    
    

    • What are the possible entry points for women & youth in the value chain in the clean energy sector?
    • What is the current gap in gender equality and the challenges women & youth face?
    • What are good practices and lessons learned from different positions to empower women and youth?
    • How is UNCDF addressing the overall pending challenges and how can other stakeholders contribute to addressing these?
    

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    About the speaker: Gina Rodolico is a Clean Energy Investment Due Diligence and Portfolio Monitoring Specialist for UNCDF in Africa. She has supported UNCDF’s Energy Challenge Funds in Uganda since 2015. She has assisted, among others, in defining the portfolio’s social, financial and environmental indicators to track and aggregates results across UNCDF’s Clean Energy portfolio. Additionally, Rodolico transferred lessons learned from the Uganda Challenge Funds to Burkina Faso and DRC.
    
    Rodolico has over 25 years’ experience in the clean energy business development for small and medium enterprise sector. She started her career as part of the founding team of the US non-profit E+Co, an international sustainable investment company whose mission was to support clean energy enterprises that deliver reliable, affordable energy in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Rodolico was the Chief Operating Officer and Director of Innovations with extensive travel to over 30 countries managing company business, building a pipeline of entrepreneurs, and facilitating business activity in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Rodolico designed and launched a first-time carbon finance program to monetize carbon offsets generated from developing countries energy enterprises.
    
    She also pioneered the now widely used Triple Bottom Line Impacts Assessment Program that tracked and analyzed 30+ indicators to document the financial, social and environmental impacts of energy investments.

    
    

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