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Power with Full Force: Getting to Gender Equality in the Hyd...
Based on 65 corporate and 900 individual survey responses, this report discusses the challenges women face in the hydropower sector, such as gender biases, a shortage of women with STEM qualifications...
Accelerating the Productive Use of Electricity: Enabling Ene...
This report highlights the importance of actively promoting productive uses to MSMEs, including small farmers, as a way of accelerating development after communities gain access to electricity. An eco...
Opening Opportunities, Closing Gaps: Advancing Gender-Equal ...
Slow progress toward access to clean cooking solutions has significant negative impacts on women, including harming health from disproportionate exposure to household air pollution, safety hazards and...
Pathways to Power: South Asia Baseline Assessment for Women ...
To better understand the gaps and barriers impacting women in the South Asian energy sector, the World Bank conducted a regional baseline assessment. The study collected data from over 100 energy sect...
Getting to Gender Equality in Energy Infrastructure: Lessons...
Access to modern and clean forms of energy is considered critical to gender equality—beyond its intrinsic value as a core development objective— and increasingly recognized as smart economics. Under t...
Exploring Opportunities for Gender Diversity in the Mining a...
This report is the first targeted gender assessment in the areas of mining and energy in Serbia. It aims to stimulate dialogue among policy makers, companies, and other relevant actors on how best to ...
Building the Business Case for Women’s Inclusive Financing i...
One of the key constraints in improving energy access in the renewable energy sector is the availability and affordability of financing, especially for women-owned or -led micro, small, or medium ente...
Understanding the Interaction between Gender, Energy, and Fo...
Women bear the greatest burden from energy poverty, and forced displacement further entrenches gender inequalities. This brief aims to advance understanding of how energy access can help bridge gender...
The Energy Transition Fueled by Women’s Participation and Le...
Increasing women in technical and leadership positions is essential to meeting the estimated 14 million new jobs needed for clean energy growth by 2030. The World Bank’s WePOWER Network, which address...
Women’s Employment in Energy Sector Utilities Toolkit (2023)
A “one-stop shop” for advice and resources on how to bolster women’s employment in energy utilities, this toolkit by the World Bank’s Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) addresses barr...