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Advocacy Nepal
Energy: Empowering Women, Uplifting Lives is an Advocacy Project, an initiative to advocate and lobby for the integration of gender and social inclusion into national energy policies and program in Nepal. It is funded by International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy/ (ENERGIA/ Hivos. In Nepal, the Project is led by CRT/N in partnership with Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ) and National Association of Community Electricity Users’ – Nepal (NACEUN).The program aims to contribute to achieve this by focusing on the following interrelated intervention areas:
  1. Integrate gender  objectives and actions in SE4ALL Country Action Agend
  2. Operatinalise a national campaign on WEE (Promoting Women-led Enterprises for Energy Access
    and Local Production ) through Energy Access
  3. Showcase the results of the WEE programme in SE4All regional and global outreach 
Project Approach:
The learning and case studies from WEE Nepal Project (Promoting Women-led Enterprises for Energy Access and Local Production ), Project districts will form a basis in the advocacy. The implementation will focus on improved access to energy for empowering and uplifting the lives of women in partnership with / CSOs and social icons through various media for mass awareness, interactions at the National level and multi-pronged communication at the International level in partnership with ENERGIA.

Project Districts:
 The project areas are the six districts selected for the ENERGIA supported project WEE Nepal (Promoting Women-led Enterprises for Energy Access and Local Production ) project " namely Khotang, Udayapur, Sindhuli, Kavre, Lalitpur and Dhading

Target Group:

  1. Community (Women, Men and Children, user groups (water and forest), traditional leaders (Social and religious ))
  2.  Energy Service Providers (NGOs, technology, suppliers, installers, finance institutions and local media) and,
  3. Policy makers and planners (National, Local) 

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