Award and Workshop on Empowering Women
22.09.2016
The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves has announced the winners of the third annual Women’s Empowerment Fund (WEF), which will provide grants to four awardees in Ghana, Kenya, and Vietnam. The WEF was launched in 2013 as a unique funding mechanism that allows women-owned enterprises and women working in the clean cooking sector to pilot innovative interventions aiming to increase opportunities for female employees, sales agents, and producers - among others.
Lessons and best practice of current and past winners will be shared during the Women’s Energy Entrepreneurship workshop – 2017, which the Alliance will be hosting in Nairobi in February with the wPOWER hub. At this workshop, the Alliance and other key stakeholders will discuss women’s energy entrepreneurship and explore the role of gender-informed energy access approaches that scale access to energy; as well as how to increase gender equality and women’s empowerment through the sector.
Further details on the Winners of the Women's Empowerment Fund:
http://cleancookstoves.org/about/news/09-20-2016-alliance-awards-grants-to-empower-women-in-ghana-kenya-and-vietnam.html
Further details on the Women's Energy Entrepreneurship workshop 2017:
http://cleancookstoves.org/events/286.html