Type	Voluntary commitment by other stakeholders
Organisation	Solar Sister
Scope	Regional
Location(s)	Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda
Themes	Cross-cutting areas; Environment; Small and medium enterprises; jobs

Description

Solar Sister eradicates energy poverty by empowering women with economic opportunity. The award winning social enterprise is creating a woman driven direct sales network to bring the breakthrough potential of solar and clean cooking technologies to even the most remote communities in Africa. Solar Sister recruits, trains and mentors a salesforce of women from rural African communities most in need of safe and affordable clean energy solutions. This women led innovation is helping Sustainable Energy for All goals related to Universal Energy Access and Renewable Energy. Till date, Solar Sister has created a path for 1500 women across in Uganda, Tanzania, and Nigeria to become active and knowledgeable participants in a sustainable, market-based, clean energy distribution network, bringing clean energy access to over 250,000 people. Solar Sister has partnered with ENERGIA International Network on Gender & Sustainable Energy to build an expanded network of 1000 additional Solar Sister Entrepreneurs to transform green energy access to over 804,000 people over the next three years.

Partners

ENERGIA International Network on Gender & Sustainable Energy, Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves

Targets

Solar Sister has partnered with ENERGIA International Network on Gender & Sustainable Energy to build an expanded network of 1000 additional Solar Sister Entrepreneurs to transform green energy access to over 804,000 people over the next three years.

Indicators

Number of women entrepreneurs, Number of people with clean energy access

Resources

http://energia.org/what-we-do/womens-economic-empowerment/solar-sister/

Timeframe

2014-2017