Watch the webinar: How Small Business Can Enable a Gender-Equitable Energy Transition

2 July 2026

What role can small businesses play in making the clean energy transition more equitable? In this webinar hosted by The Group of 78, researchers from the Clean Energy for Development: A Call to Action (CEDCA) initiative shared evidence from across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East and North Africa on the role of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises in supporting cleaner livelihoods, employment, and entrepreneurship.

Moderated by Bipasha Baruah of Western University, the discussion featured Yasmeen Oraby from the Economic Research Forum, María Eugenia Castelao Caruana from Fundación Bariloche, Leonard Hasu from UNU-INRA, and Nhung Nguyen from the University of Commerce, Vietnam. Speakers explored the barriers facing women, young people and small businesses in clean energy transitions, including access to finance, skills, technology, and inclusive support.

Watch the full webinar here.

Smallholder farmer testing INFoCAT renewable energy powered groundnut pod plucker in Gomoa (Central Region, Ghana). Photo by UNU INRA.

Webinar: Clean Energy Transitions: A care economy lens

Wednesday 16 September 2026

Clean energy transitions: what changes when we put care at the centre? Join us for an engaging webinar exploring how clean energy transitions can do more than expand access to power: they can also reduce drudgery, shift how unpaid care work is recognised and shared, and open up new opportunities for women and young people in […]

Solar panels, Bolivia

Inclusive and Clean Energy for SMEs in Rural Bolivia

7 October 2026

Bolivia has achieved high rates of electricity access, yet rural and semi-rural producers still face major barriers to securing reliable, affordable energy for productive use. Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the agrifood sector play a central role in ensuring national food security and creating employment. However, they remain highly dependent on fossil-fuel-powered pumps with […]

Smallholder farmer testing INFoCAT renewable energy powered groundnut pod plucker in Gomoa (Central Region, Ghana). Photo by UNU INRA.

Putting care at the centre of clean energy transitions

14 October 2026

Clean energy transitions are often discussed in terms of technology, finance and climate targets. But what changes when we put care at the centre? Across many low- and middle-income countries, women and girls carry a disproportionate share of unpaid care and domestic work. Cooking, collecting fuel and water, caring for others, processing food, and sustaining […]