Energising Women to Advance the Energy Transition

• The selection of a total of 350 mentees, based on applications from the following regions:

–  Europe (Ukraine)

– MENA (Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Türkiye, United Arab Emirates)

– Africa (Ethiopia, Namibia, South Africa)

– Latin America (Brazil, Chile, Mexico)

–  Asia (India, China, South Korea, Japan)

• Production of social media cards for both mentees and mentors and ongoing promotion of the programme participants on social media;
• The matching of the selected mentees with mentors, drawing on the extensive GWNET mentor pool;
• Ongoing support to the mentees and mentors during the programme;
• Graduation event and issuing of programme certificates;
• Collecting feedback from participants through a survey and drafting of impact assessment report.

Related Links:

• Announcing the Participants of the 2021 Energising Women to Advance the Energy Transition Mentoring Programme 
• Announcing the Second Cohort of Participants in the Energising Women to Advance the Energy Transition Mentoring Programme

This programme consisted of 6 modules on the nexus between SDG 5 and SDG 7, with inspirational videos from global and regional leaders as well as other learning materials. It included live online sessions to process the content of each module and exchange experiences among the mentees and with selected experts.

The study tours are for selected mentees as well as a dozen of regional women-in-sustainable- energy networks were organised around Smarter-E Europe and the WomenEnergizeWomen Conference in Munich. To allow participants of the study tour to get acquainted with each other, as well as to explore and share their experiences as women working in the male dominated energy sector, a seminar on female leadership was organized as part of the study tour.

Related links:

• Looking Back on the “Energising Women to Advance the Energy Transition” Study Tour – GWNET

In the course of the contractual period, the following events were organised by GWNET to raise the awareness of women in energy:

• Organisation of a session on “Women leading the global energy transition” at the Solar World Congress in October 2021
• Organisation of a virtual booth at the AEEP Forum 2021 on “Aligning Energies for a Green and Prosperous Africa” in October 2021
• Participation in launch event of the Women Energize Women campaign in November 2021
• Co-organisation of the BETD side event Women Energize Women – Women Empowerment in the Energy Sector: Best Practices Worldwide in March 2022
• Input to Women Energise Women conference with a main focus on the organisation of the women network’s session in May 2022

Organisation of Workshop at Eurosun2022 on “Women to advance the global energy transition” in September 2022

Regional and national women in energy networks all over the globe aim to empower women working in the energy sector, to help advance their careers and to make the sector more gender-balanced. Understanding this, the Global Women’s Network for the Energy Transition (GWNET) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWK) and under the German bilateral energy partnerships, organised a virtual networking event for women energy networks on March 15th 2021 as well as a physical gathering back to back with the Women energize Women conference in Munich in March 2022.

Furthermore, a guide “How to set up a regional/national network of women in sustainable energy” was created to provide guidance to upcoming women’s energy networks on the steps to consider when setting up their initiative, as well as learn from existing networks – and what they are doing in this space.