Stepping Up Women’s STEM Careers in Infrastructure: Summary Note: Entry Points for World Bank Project Teams Volume 3 provides a brief overview of some of the findings from an extensive literature review, a global stocktaking exercise, key…
The report is intended to underpin and expand the existing knowledge on gender equality issues, under the World Bank’s Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP). The case studies featured form part of the insight captured in the…
Composed of five case studies describing a variety of contexts in which measures are being implemented to attract, recruit, retain, and advance women in STEM roles in the infrastructure sectors across Ethiopia, the Lao People’s Democratic…
The objective of this report is to advance the understanding of the gender-energy-fragility nexus, with a focus on some of MENA’s fragile and conflict situations, namely, Iraq, Lebanon, Republic of Yemen, and the West Bank and Gaza.
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.
The analysis focuses on: challenges that female-headed households (FHHs) face in accessing reliable electricity and heating services; struggle to pay for utilities in relation to male-headed households; and how often FHHs use coping…