About the Gender and Energy Compact
The ENERGIA International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy (ENERGIA), Global Women’s Network for the Energy Transition (GWNET), Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) and United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), are co-leading a Gender and Energy Compact to catalyze action towards gender equality and women’s empowerment to accelerate a just, inclusive and sustainable energy transition.
The coalition brings together governments, private sector, academia, civil society, youth, and international organizations. The signatories of the Gender and Energy Compact will jointly, and individually, work on individual commitments to bring this Multi-Stakeholder Compact to life and create impact on the ground.
Multi-stakeholder Gender and Energy Compact
Catalyzing Action towards Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment to accelerate a Just, Inclusive and Sustainable Energy Transition
Expected outcomes
Energy and time poverty is eliminated
Energy and time poverty, as well as drudgery of women are eliminated by increasing women’s access to and control over sustainable energy products and services.
Gender-responsive energy
Countries and regions (re)formulate and adopt more inclusive and gender-responsive energy accessand transition pathways, strategies and policies.
Entrepreneurship
Women-owned and -led businesses have increased access to productive resources, such as finance,sustainable energy, entrepreneurial capacity and business development services.
Career advancement
Career advancement avenues for women working in the energy sector are created: women enjoy decent and productive employment; workplace policies and practices support recruitment and retainment of women, as well as women are equally involved in policy- and decision-making fora and discussions.
Tools and Knowledge
Knowledge, mechanisms, tools, and sex-disaggregated data are more available and of higher-quality. This supports gender-responsive Monitoring and Evaluation processes and policy formulation, as well as gender mainstreaming of private and public sector initiatives, projects, programmes and policies.
Be part of the movement
Reaching these goals and outcomes requires actions at multiple levels from a wide range of stakeholders. All signatories will submit their own individual Energy Compacts to capture their organization’s specific commitments between now and 2030, to support the achievement of SDG7 on universal access to sustainable energy and SDG5 on gender equality.