Programme
Renewable Energy & Energy Access
Solar entrepreneurship, clean cooking and energy access - treating the last mile of the energy transition as a business women own rather than a service they receive.
Programme status: In design
Energy poverty is measured in hours - hours spent gathering fuel, hours lost to smoke and illness, hours a business cannot trade after dark. Those hours are overwhelmingly women’s. This pillar returns them, and makes the returning of them a livelihood.
What this programme does
- Solar entrepreneurship training and distribution networks
- Clean cooking technology adoption
- Introduction to renewable energy concepts
- Energy access planning for underserved communities
How we will measure it
USAW is pre-launch, so these indicators have no baseline yet. Baselines will be set during Phase 1 research and reported annually, disaggregated by sex and age.
- Women trained as renewable energy entrepreneurs
- Households reached with clean energy or clean cooking solutions