On the factory floor in Calabar, a port city in southern Nigeria, rows of solar home systems move steadily along an assembly line staffed largely by young women. For many, it is their first job and a first step toward financial…
ESMAP and the Global Women’s Network for the Energy Transition (GWNET) launched, on International Women’s Day, the second edition of the Women in Energy Storage (WES) Mentoring Program.
Women remain underrepresented in the hydropower sector - as they are in the energy sector in general - yet how underrepresented is difficult to determine as sex-disaggregated data and gender statistics on employment in the sector are…
ESMAP/The World Bank present the Gender Equality in The Energy Sector Calendar (2020-21) to raise awareness on key gender-equality issues in the energy sector.
With support from WBG, ESMAP and the State and Peacebuilding Fund, the Ethiopia Electric Utility (EEU) is working with universities to create new opportunities for female employees and students.
With the help of the World Bank Group, Ethiopia is pioneering a new model to promote equality between men and women while it works toward universal electricity access.
