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 the United Nations 2030 sustainable development agenda, gender and energy figure among the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for eradicating extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. This means that governments and development agencies have a renewed institutional mandate to achieve gender equality (SDG 5). Ensuring universal access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy (SDG 7) is recognized as central to making progress on SDG 5 – underscoring how energy‐gender linkages are fundamental to achieving these overlapping objectives. Read more.
Blog » Getting to Gender Equality in Energy Infrastructure: Lessons from Electricity Generation, Transmission and Distribution Projects (2018)
Getting to Gender Equality in Energy Infrastructure: Lessons from Electricity Generation, Transmission and Distribution Projects (2018)
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 the United Nations 2030 sustainable development agenda, gender and energy figure among the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for eradicating extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. This means that governments and development agencies have a renewed institutional mandate to achieve gender equality (SDG 5). Ensuring universal access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy (SDG 7) is recognized as central to making progress on SDG 5 – underscoring how energy‐gender linkages are fundamental to achieving these overlapping objectives. Read more.