WEBINAR
RE-Thinking the Role of Energy Technology for Women’s
Empowerment
RE-Thinking the Role of Energy Technology for Women’s Empowerment
6 May 2015
Agenda
1
Welcome and Introduction
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Joy Clancy: Energy-Gender-Technology-Climate Change Nexus
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Monica Christy: Kopernik’s Ibu Inspirasi, the Wonder Women Initiative, Indonesia
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Wandee Khunchornyakong: Solar Power Company Group, Thailand
Ondina da Barca Vieira: Lessons from UN Women’s Support to the Implementation of
Mozambique’s Strategy and Action Plan on Gender, Environment and Climate Change
Panel discussion and Q&A
RE-Thinking the Role of Energy Technology for Women’s Empowerment
6 May 2015
Quiz
1)
On the word ‘RE-Thinking’ on the title of this webinar the letters ‘RET’ are
uppercase? Do you know what RET stands for?
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Responsible Economic Trends
Resource, Energy and Technology
Reliable Energy Technology
Renewable Energy Technology
None of them
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Quiz
2)
Do you think climate technologies, such as renewable energy technologies, are:
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Accessible and benefit women and men equally.
Accessible and benefit more women than men.
Accessible and benefit more men than women.
Rarely accessible for women.
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Gender Mainstreaming at UNIDO
Inclusive and Sustainable
Industrial Development (ISID)
“…empowering women means a
more efficient use of human talent
endowment and reducing gender
inequality enhances productivity
and economic growth...”
World Economic Forum
“Gender equality is not only a goal in
itself, but a prerequisite for reaching
all the other international
development goals, including the
MDGs”
Ban Ki Moon
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UNIDO Gender Strategy and Operational Setup
GM Guide
Dual Track Approach
UNIDO Policy on Gender
Equality and Women´s
Empowerment (2015)
Gender Focal Points within
Branches
GMSC – Gender
Mainstreaming Steering
Board
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Examples of UNIDO’s Sustainable Energy Projects
promoting gender equality and empowering women
Energy-efficient cook stoves
empowering women beer brewers in
BURKINA FASO
ECOWAS Programme on Gender
Mainstreaming in Energy Access
(ECOW-GEN)
Promoting renewable energy based
entrepreneurship for women in The
GAMBIA
Mainstreaming Gender and Promoting
Women’s Empowerment in Energy
Efficiency in SOUTH AFRICA (Steam
Expert Training)
Mainstreaming Gender and Promoting
Women’s Empowerment in Energy
Efficiency in SOUTH AFRICA (Lead
Auditor Training)
Gender Mainstreaming the VEF 2015
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Agenda
1
Welcome and Introduction
2
5
6
Joy Clancy: Energy-Gender-Technology-Climate Change Nexus
3
Monica Christy: Kopernik’s Ibu Inspirasi, the Wonder Women Initiative, Indonesia
4
Wandee Khunchornyakong: Solar Power Company Group, Thailand
Ondina da Barca Vieira: Lessons from UN Women’s Support to the Implementation of
Mozambique’s Strategy and Action Plan on Gender, Environment and Climate Change
Panel discussion and Q&A
RE-Thinking the Role of Energy Technology for Women’s Empowerment
6 May 2015
Speakers
Moderator:
Alois Mhlanga
Energy Branch at UNIDO
HQ in Vienna
Zimbabwe
Dr. Joy Clancy,
University of Twente
Netherlands
Monica Christy,
Kopernik, Ibu Inspirasi,
Indonesia
RE-Thinking the Role of Energy Technology for Women’s Empowerment
6 May 2015
Wandee
Khunchornyakong,
Solar Power Company
Group,
Thailand
Ondina da Barca Vieira,
Programme Specialist,
UN Women
Mozambique
Speaker
Alois Mhlanga is Industrial Development Officer in the Energy Branch at
UNIDO Headquarter in Vienna, with profound experience in developing
and implementing energy and climate change projects in Africa and Asia.
Having a background in Physics, Renewable Energy Technologies,
Financing and Climate Change he began his career as research
engineer with the Southern Centre for Energy and Environment in
Zimbabwe in 1999.
He worked on energy and climate change projects financed by
international organizations that include World Bank, UNDP, UNIDO,
UNEP, UNFCCC etc. In 2002, he became a part-time lecturer for the
Masters of Renewable Energy course at the University of Zimbabwe. In
2004, he joined the African Development Bank working on energy
projects with a particular focus on renewable energy. In the Bank he
helped develop the strategies on renewable energy and climate change
that include the Clean Energy Investment Framework. During his tenure
with the African Development Bank, Alois was also actively involved in
mainstreaming gender into the Bank’s projects.
Alois Mhlanga, UNIDO
In 2007, he joined UNIDO working on renewable energy and climate
change projects in Africa and Asia. Among others, he was responsible
for the creation of ECREEE. Mr. Mhlanga is a member of the UNIDO’s
Gender Mainstreaming Committee which is responsible for
mainstreaming gender into UNIDO’s projects and programmes.
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Joy Clancy is an Associate Professor in Technology Transfer at
University of Twente, The Netherlands. Dr. Clancy is a founding member
of ENERGIA, the international network on gender and sustainable
energy for whom she currently the Principal Investigator in a 5 year
research project Building the Evidence Base for Improving Energy
Investments Effectiveness by Taking a Gendered Approach.
Joy’s research has focused, for 30 years, on small scale energy systems
for developing countries, including the technology transfer process and
the role that energy plays as an input for small businesses and the
potential it offers entrepreneurs through the provision of a new
infrastructure service. Her PhD is in engineering, but social, in particular
gender, and environmental issues gained ground and that is where her
interest now lies.
Joy Clancy, ENERGIA
Joy has developed gender analytical tools for use in the energy sector
and has run a number of capacity building courses for bi- and multilateral agencies. From 2009 to 2013 Joy was a Gender and Energy
Advisor to the World Bank AFREA Gender and Energy Program
(AFTEG/ESMAP).
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Monica Christy is Senior Program officer at Kopernik, running the Ibu
Inspirasi initiative – an initiative bringing low-carbon technologies to
remote rural communities across Indonesia. Working with local women’s
groups to provide rural women with the skills and tools to become green
technology agents and to sell small technologies that make a big
difference, Kopernik works with simple innovations that are affordable,
durable, easy to use and maintain, eco-friendly, money-saving, and lifechanging for families in the last mile.
After graduating from an Australian university in Malaysia with a degree
in communication and media management, Monica volunteered with a
Balinese microfinance institution before joining Kopernik. In 2014,
Monica, alongside two of Kopernik's 'Ibu Inspirasi', represented the
organisation to receive an award from Momentum for Change, an
initiative under UNFCCC, for the Ibu Inspirasi initiative (Wonder Women
Indonesia Program) in Lima, Peru.
Monica Christy,
Kopernik, Ibu Inspirasi
When she isn't visiting villages throughout Indonesia to set up our
technology reseller network, she volunteers as a secretary for Young
Men's Christian Association (YMCA) for the Bali region.
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Wandee Khunchornyakong is currently Chairwomen and CEO of the
Solar Power Company Group (SPCG) and Managing Director of Solar
Roof Company Limited. To date, SPCG is the largest solar power
generation company in Thailand with solar investments attracting more
than USD 800 million. By providing clean energy jobs for women, Solar
Power Company Group is directly empowering the next generation of
Southeast Asian businesswomen and entrepreneurs who will continue to
catalyze renewable energy projects in the developing world.
Ms. Khunchomyakong was a pioneer in her field and has over 30 years
of experience in the solar industry. In 2013, Ms. Khunchornyakong was
named Women Entrepreneur of the Year by the Asia Pacific
Entrepreneurship Awards. Nowadays, she is a figured person of the solar
energy business as a producer of 36 solar farm projects, totaling capacity
of 260 MW and the top of solar farm commercial scale in Thailand and
ASEAN.
Wandee Khunchornyakong,
Solar Power Company Group
UNFCCC has awarded her to be a Leading women-powered solar
energy transformation under the Momentum for Change, 2014 reducing
200,000 tons of CO2 and she has been invited to be a speaker in
international forum and universities. She holds BA in Laws and MSc in
Renewable Energy and Marketing.
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Ondina da Barca Vieira,
UN Women, Mozambique
Ondina da Barca Vieira is Programme Manager wokring for UN Women
in Mozambique. There, Mrs Barca Vieira has been contributing to the
formulation and implementation of most of the gender equality policies,
national plans and related legislation in the country. She has also
supported the development and implementation of sector strategies
including the National Strategy and Action Plan on Gender, Environment
and Climate Change, and supported mainstreaming of gender issues into
national strategies and through gender responsive planning and
budgeting.
Mrs Barca Vieira has been working in socio economic development
programmes as manager, trainer, policy advisor among others for close
to 26 years. After serving as a public servant in Mozambique, she
worked with UNDP in Angola in 1997, followed by UNDP
Mozambique from 2000. She joined UN Women in 2007. She holds a
Master’s on Gender, Democracy and Public Polices, Post Graduate
Diplomas on Gender and Economics and Gender and Health by the Latin
American Faculty of Social Sciences - Argentina, a certificate on policy
advisory by UNDP and the University of Columbia, and an Honours
Degree in International Relations and Diplomacy by the High Institute of
International Relations – Mozambique.
At 48, she is a very proud feminist and gender equality and women’s
rights activist.
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6 May 2015
Panel discussion + Q&A
Moderator:
Alois Mhlanga
Energy Branch at UNIDO
HQ in Vienna
Zimbabwe
Dr. Joy Clancy,
University of Twente
Netherlands
Monica Christy,
Kopernik, Ibu Inspirasi,
Indonesia
RE-Thinking the Role of Energy Technology for Women’s Empowerment
6 May 2015
Wandee
Khunchornyakong,
Solar Power Company
Group,
Thailand
Ondina da Barca Vieira,
Programme Specialist,
UN Women
Mozambique
THANK YOU!
For more information …
Katharina Proestler: [email protected]
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