Gender & Energy Toolkit
This Toolkit supports trainers, funders, and researchers in integrating gender-sensitive frameworks into energy transitions. It showcases case studies and provides actionable recommendations.
Simple Steps to Get Started
Follow this evidence-based cycle from energy projects worldwide.
- Run gender workshops: Build team awareness and buy-in for women's needs.
- Consult stakeholders: Use focus groups to map women's energy roles.
- Create a Gender Action Plan: Set targets like 50% women in trainings.
- Monitor with sex-disaggregated data: Track women's benefits like time savings.
In a nutshell: Why the energy transition is not gender-neutral
"Everything starts from energy, yet everyday energy drudgery of women in rural and urban settings is something that often goes unnoticed. The whole day is around the energy compass: A woman’s entire day is governed by energy, and without access to energy, then really nothing is going right for that woman or her household, from her own health and well-being to the opportunities that she could offer to her children, to the ability to earn a better income."
– Nitisha Agrawal, founder of the Smokeless Cookstove Foundation initiative and mentor for the Women in Clean Cooking Mentorship Programme.
RMI’s roundtable on women leaders in the energy transition
"It’s up to us as stewards to usher in the next generation and provide our support. We need to help create space and change perceptions, where often young women don’t believe they are technically capable or competent enough to take leadership roles in renewable energy. As women, we must take calculated risks, we must step out of the well-trodden path and create spaces for ourselves and the next generation to lead,” Prescod added."
– Nnyeka Prescod, regional manager of RMI’s Climate Finance Access Network for the Caribbean.
RMI’s roundtable on women leaders in the energy transition
"Empowered women empower others."
– Wandee Khunchornyakong, ASEAN Energy Leader.
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