More women engineers for Benin’s energy sector
In the energy sector in Benin, female engineers - encouraged by the Ministry of Energy - are acting as role models in the country's transition.
Tag: SDG 5
Biogas saves women time and makes them more independent
A biogas plant in the village of Kontoubarou enables cooking without firewood while producing ecological fertiliser for agriculture.
Solar pump boosts yields of women’s co-operative
Solar irrigation provides a women’s co-operative with a permanent solution to improve their living conditions.
Care centres to be electrified with solar power
The decades-long war in Congo has brought much suffering. Some of the few centers that provide care to those affected now receive solar power so they can...
Dairy committees learn business 101
40 members of the cooperatives underwent training in entrepreneurship and organisational dynamics in January.
Energy cooperative empowers women
The partners want to address, involve, qualify and integrate women in particular into the project.
Energy cooperatives to empower Ethiopian women
A concept is being developed for the creation of an energy cooperative.
GBE Uganda’s Gender Approach – Promoting Energy Skills Development for Women
GBE is committed to train particularly female technicians, professionals, and users of renewable energy solutions, and to advance women’s role in this field.
Ministry of Energy established a Unit of Women Engineers through GBE Benin
Green People’s Energy’s Small Project Fund enables recruitment of eight women engineers for technical positions in the Ministry of Energy in Benin.
GBE Senegal und LVIA support 600 women
Solar energy supports six women's groups to upgrade their grain processing sites. GBE and LVIA support the development of profitable farms through training...
Twelve Senegalese women’s and youth groups take off with solar energy
Groups of women and young people in the Kédougou region will improve their own farms with the productive use of solar energy. The project started at the end...
Women and Young People Take Off
In Senegal, women and young people are supported in implementing their business plans.
Women farmers switch to solar-powered water pumps
After learning about the advantages of solar-powered water pumps in a workshop organised by Green People’s Energy (GBE) Uganda, the women of two cooperatives...
Solar pump training in Benin: Second place goes to a woman
Over a six month period a cooperation of Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences and WE4Food trained online (due to Covid) 749 people in solar-powered...
Key Positions for Women Engineers
Female engineers gain access to Benin's energy institutions, countering gender inequality.
GBE supports, in collaboration with ENDA Energie, the solar electrification of women-led rural dairy micro-enterprisess
GBE supports the solar electrification of 24 mainly women-led dairy micro-enterprises in rural Senegal, thereby adding value to milk production, and reducing...
Mapping of private health centers for electrifications
In Benin, the GBE project is mapping non-electrified private health centers in order to facilitate their access to electricity through the Fee-for-service...
