Empowering women for sustainable energy solutions to address climate change

This working paper is a joint production of UN Women and the United Nations Development Programme–United Nations Environment Programme Pover ty- Environment Initiative (UNDP-UNEP PEI) Africa. The collaboration was led by UN Women, Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office (ESARO) under the overall guidance and leadership of Christine Musisi.

The team of authors who contributed to the preparation of this working paper was led by Asa Torkelsson, UN Women, and comprised Flavia Ciribello, UN Women; and Moa Westman, UNDP-UNEP PEI.

The authors gratefully acknowledge review comments received on an earlier draft of this paper by Mehjabeen Alarakhia, UN Women Tanzania; Marcel Alers, UNDP; Fiona Bayat-Renoux, UN Women; Jazmin Burgess, UNDP; Yannick Glemarec, UN Women; Odette Kabaya, UNDP; Isabell Kempf, UNEP/ PEI; Fiona Lambe, Stockholm Environment Institute; Victoria Luque, UNEP/PEI; James Mbata, UNDP/PEI Malawi; Ambrose Mugisha, UNDP/PEI Tanzania; Richard Munang, UNEP; Christine Musisi, UN Women; Ayanda Mvimbi, UN Women South Africa; Caroline Ochieng, Stockholm Environment Institute; Amaya Olivares, UNDP/PEI Mozambique; Philip Osano, Stockholm Environment Institute; Aboubacar Oualy, UNDP; Fred Sabiti, Rwanda Environment Management Authority/PEI; David Smith, UNDP-UNEP PEI; Jihene Touil, UNDP; Antonia Samur, UNEP/PEI; Victor Tsang, UNEP; and Hanna Wanjiru, Stockholm Environment Institute.

We would like to thank Nita Congress, who designed and edited this working paper. Thanks also to the UN Women and UNDP operations team for facilitating crossinstitutional collaborations, in particular Alka Gulati, David Lubanga, Joel Sirma, and Junius Thara of UN Women; and Oscar Mwangi and Martha Gatimu from UNDP.