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CCA collaborates with dedicated advocates and organizations to promote women’s empowerment and support women leaders in the clean cooking industry. These partners include ENERGIA, 2X Global, and Vital Voices.

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The ENERGIA International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy

is a network of like-minded organizations and professionals active in Africa and Asia. Its vision is for women to have an equal opportunity to lead, participate in, and benefit from universal energy access and a climate-just and inclusive energy transition as essential rights to development.

Working toward achieving and contributing to this vision, ENERGIA implements a multi-pronged approach that combines several elements:

Building women's economic empowerment in the energy sector by creating enabling policies and a market environment at global and national levels, through lobbying, advocacy, awareness raising, and bringing stakeholders together;
Gender mainstreaming; and
Partnership building, knowledge creation, and information sharing.

ENERGIA and its partners have supported government agencies and local authorities in Kenya, Tanzania, Senegal, and Nepal to create gender-responsive energy policies and plans.

Producing the “Gender-Responsive Electric Cooking in Nepal” report, which offers insights into how gender issues and norms influence the uptake of electric cooking; and
Publishing a research report and practical toolkit to better understand the challenges and business cases related to financing women's micro, small, and medium enterprises at the last mile of the renewable energy sector.

To learn more about ENERGIA’s work and initiatives, please visit www.energia.org.

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2X Global is a worldwide membership and field-building organization

for investors, capital providers, and intermediaries working in public and private markets across both developed and emerging economies.

2X Global engages the full spectrum of investors, capital providers, mobilizers, and influencers, and works together to advance intersectional investment agendas, level up gender-smart investments, and scale up the field of gender finance. Under the 2X Challenge, the 2X Global community has deployed $27.7 billion in gender lens investments since 2018.

Here is a selection of some of the tools and resources that 2X Global has built to help others get started and go further on their gender-smart investing journeys:

The 2X Global Knowledge Hub, a comprehensive library of gender-lens investing resources that can be filtered by region, theme, sector, or asset class; and
Reports across a variety of themes, such as climate finance and the care economy, as well as a compendium of case studies that outline how gender finance works in practice;

Climate and gender finance reports, including the Gender and Climate Finance Toolkit, which helps investors, fund managers, and other stakeholders identify and prioritize gender-smart climate finance investment risks and opportunities; and the “Inclusive Gender and Climate Finance” report, which presents the rationale for centering frontline, underrepresented, and underserved communities in investment.

To learn more about the work and initiatives of 2X Global, please visit www.2xglobal.org.

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For more than 25 years, the Vital Voices Global Partnership

has been investing in women leaders solving the world’s greatest challenges.

As “venture catalysts,” Vital Voices identifies those with a bold vision for change and partners with them to make that vision a reality, scaling and accelerating their impact through long-term investments to expand the skills, connections, capacity, and visibility of women leaders. Vital Voices provided early support for leaders who went on to become Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, U.S. Youth Poet Laureates, prime ministers, and social entrepreneurs.

Since its founding in 1997, Vital Voices has directly supported more than 20,000 women changemakers across 185 countries and built the most powerful global network of women leaders who are daring to reimagine a more equitable world for all. 

Vital Voices hosts the VV GROW Fellowship, a global accelerator for women owners of small- and medium-sized businesses. The program elevates women entrepreneurs as drivers of economic growth and social change by supporting them to grow their businesses and social impact. Vital Voices works with these leaders to address key obstacles to growth and enhance their leadership and management skills.

Recent VV GROW Fellows from the clean cooking sector include:

Mwayi Kampesi

CEO and Founder, Planet Green Africa

Betty Ikalany

CEO, Appropriate Energy Saving Technologies

To learn more about the work and initiatives of Vital Voices, please visit www.vitalvoices.org.