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"Gender and Energy" joint lecture by UNU-GEST and UNU-GTP

18 April 2018

The UNU Geothermal Training Programme is hosting a special event on gender and energy "UNU Gender and Energy Short Course" in cooperation with the UNU Gender Equality Studies Programme.

The event will take place 25 and 27 April, 13:00-16:00
at Orkustofnun - UNU-GTP, Room: Víðgelmir, Grensásvegur 9, 108 Reykavík

Dr. Ellen Morris, an adjunct professor from Columbia SIPA, is a sustainable energy specialist and a senior consultant for the United Nations Development Programme on sustainable energy. She has a vast experience in international energy issues with special emphasis on low-income countries.

Dr. Ellen will give lectures on the energy access situation in developing countries and the impacts on women, the link between gender and energy as it relates to policies, technologies and businesses in developing countries, and how to address gender inequalities in programme planning and design.

Course outline:

Gender, energy, and poverty

  1. Energy poverty
  2. Productivity and income generation
  3. Well-being and health

Gender and energy access priorities at the household, community and national level

  1. Climbing the energy ladder
  2. Energy applications/technologies
    • Electrification
    • Clean cooking
    • Motive power

Energy enterprises and women entrepreneurs

  • Women’s economic empowerment for launching and scaling up businesses
  • Business models and the role of women
  • Financing constraints

Further description of the lectures can be found here!

A special guest lecturer, Dr. Meseret Teklemariam from UNEP, was invited to give a talk on the perspective of African women in the geothermal sector.  Dr. Meseret has a wealth of experience in exploration and development of geothermal resources in Ethiopia and East-Africa.  She has been sitting on the Board of IGA – the International Geothermal Association, in 2001-2006, and again from 2010, and is the president of its African Regional Geothermal Branch.  She has given lectures on geothermal and energy all over the world, in conferences and as a guest lecturer.



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