Supporting last-mile women energy entrepreneurs: What works and what does not

January 17, 2019

Two of the greatest challenges facing the world in meeting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals for Agenda 2030 are universal energy access (SDG7) and gender equality and women’s empowerment (SDG5). Can SDG7 and SDG5 mutually support one another? This review of ENERGIA’s Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) programme makes it clear that, first, women’s energy entrepreneurship should indeed be adopted as an essential strategy.

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