This report by the World Bank’s Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) shares opportunities, challenges and good practices related to advancing gender equality in electricity infrastructure projects.
This report by the Alliance for Rural Electrification explores the role of women in advancing electrification and socio-economic development in rural communities and gives examples of ways to integrate gender equality throughout the off-grid energy supply chain.
This report assesses the effectiveness of women in energy networks worldwide and offers best practices and recommendations for networks under development or those aiming to enhance their impact.
This report provides recommendations for improving the availability of sex-disaggregated and specific gender equality data in the energy sector, to improve decision making and programme design.
This report investigates labour shortages for the energy transition in Europe and shows just how many more people will be needed in the energy sector by 2030 (See the table on p.4; example: over 600,000 new solar PV technicians and 150,000 wind engineers). On page 7, the report gives a quick overview of key arguments … Continue reading “Europe’s Energy Transition: Women’s Power in Solving the Labour Bottleneck – Employment Opportunities and Requirements for Low-Carbon Job Markets”
This report is the latest in a series of McKinsey reports on the benefits of diversity to corporations. It analysed the performance and workforce/management diversity of 1265 companies in 23 countries, and discovered that the 25% most diverse companies (both in terms of gender and ethnic diversity) were 39% more likely to perform exceptionally well … Continue reading “Diversity matters even more: The case for holistic impact”
This study explores the impact of energy poverty on the health gap between men and women in Ghana, showing that, especially in households suffering from energy poverty, women report significantly worse health than men.
This report shares insights and tools to support more inclusive and effective entrepreneurship education and training, especially for people from underrepresented and marginalized groups. It includes a list of assessment criteria to evaluate whether a programme is gender-smart.
This report highlights the importance of sector coupling as a key source of flexibility that cities can explore to stabilise power grid operations when integrating high shares of variable renewable energy sources. It presents a range of sector coupling opportunities available for use in cities, including self-consumption of variable RE sources, the role of thermal … Continue reading “Sector Coupling in Facilitating Integration of Variable Renewable Energy in Cities”
This report provides baseline data on women’s employment in hydropower, as well as information on barriers to gender equality and recommendations to close gender gaps.