GS23 Africa
23rd Gender Summit
1-2nd June 2023, VIRTUAL
8-9th June 2023, in-person, Accra
Official host: Ghana
Africa’s energy transition pathways and vision of Green New Deal through a gender lens
EVOLVING PROGRAMME
Important information for the in-person event (8–9 June, Accra)
Please note that we have a strict capacity limit and will not be accepting walk-in registrations.
You can find out if in-person registration is still possible through the registration process at:
/gs23-africa/gs23-registration
Day 1, 1st June 2023
(virtual format, Meetyoo platform, language English and French)
All times are in GMT time zone
| 09:00–9:15 | Welcome Comments
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| 09:30–9:50 | Keynote 1
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| 10:00–11:30 | Plenary 1: Building scholarly evidence on power relations in energy transition in Africa This session will discuss advances in gender research for energy transition and gaps in knowledge across different contexts. The aim is to promote research and evidence that can enhance effectiveness of policy design and implementation through methodological approaches that are inclusive and prioritise goals, which lead to equal, fair, and just outcomes for all.
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| 11:30–11:45 | BREAK |
| 11:45–13:15 | Plenary 2: Building multistakeholder partnerships to connect the challenges of gender equality and energy transition in a meaningful and effective way Women are underrepresented in all spheres of decision-making related to energy, this caries the risk that their interests, needs and preferences will not be recognised in the strategies and agendas for greening societies and economies. In 2017, the OECD stated that many disparities and inequalities between the sexes have become embedded in the baseline of public policies and in the allocation of public resources. This session will discuss how change can happen through multistakeholder cooperation actions.
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| 13:15–14:00 | BREAK |
| 14:00–14:15 | Keynote 2 Celia García-Baños, Programme Officer – Policy, Gender and Socioeconomics, IRENA Renewable Energy: A gender perspective. Understanding barriers, opportunities and benefits of women’s greater participation Introduced by Elizabeth Pollitzer, Director, Portia |
| 14:20–16:00 | Plenary 3 Incorporating diversity of voices when articulating the urgency to why gender perspectives are needed for sustainable energy transition Increasingly development organisations and institutions are adopting intersectional approach to gender mainstreaming to better understand the complexity and particularity of inequalities in the lives of women and girls, men and boys, and minority groups. In relation to energy, intersectional analysis has been used to examine how gender and positioning within the household (e.g., mothers-in-law v. daughters-in-law, older vs younger women) may influence intra-household energy-related decisions. Incorporating diversity of voices helps reveal how gender and positioning within the community based on related socio-cultural factors (e.g., wealth, caste) influence access to and control over energy resources and how broader structural forces of discrimination and exclusion influence individual-level outcomes related to energy access.
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| 16:00 | End of day 1 |
Day 2, 2nd June 2023
(virtual format, Meetyoo platform, language English and French)
All times are in GMT time zone
| 09:00–09:15 | Keynote 3
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| 09:30–11:00 | Plenary 4: Framing gender equality as a lever and an outcome rather than a barrier to sustainable energy transition Women’s roles as agents of change to both drive and benefit from investment in energy transition and the greening of economies and societies are often overlooked. Too often, women’s participation is marginalized in discourse on energy transition when they are often categorized as a “vulnerable group” rather than as essential contributors to productive and sustainable uses of energy. This session will explore what gender equality means in the context of energy transition processes and outcomes. What mechanisms are available to increase and benefit from women’s role in the transitions to a greener and more sustainable future.
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| 11:00–11:15 | BREAK |
| 11:15–13:00 | Plenary 5: Research at the nexus of energy transition with ‘green deal’, climate change mitigation, and SDGs implementation Food and energy sit at the cross-section of critical development challenges and risks that are intensifying every day. Urgent and integrated interventions at the nexus of the core challenges often interconnected under the concept of ‘green deal’ are vital to both near-term economic relief and a prosperous, equitable, and resilient Africa for 2050 and beyond. This session will discuss how to integrate gender perspectives into the evidence and knowledge underpinning development of policies, mechanisms and efforts to establish an achievable, sustainable, and socially relevant ‘green deal’.
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| 13:00–13:30 | BREAK |
| 13:30–15:30 | Parallel 1 Gendered power relations in energy transition: led by the EU gEneSys projectIMS
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| 13:30–15:30 | Parallel 2 Measuring impact of gendered innovations on research outcomes: led by the Centre for Gendered Innovations in Science and Technology Research (GISTeR)
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| 13:30–15:30 | Parallel 4 Intersectional perspectives on the Green Deal Led by G-Versity. Rasika Mahajan, Radboud University. This session gets experts, both academic and practitioners, from multiple disciplines to discuss how intersectionality rooted in postcolonial feminism can be adopted in practices related to energy transition. N.B. This session is on Zoom. To prevent Zoom-spam we are not publishing the Zoom ID here, please login to the main conference platform (meetyoo) and click on "Room 3" Moderator/Speaker: Rasika Mahajan, Radboud University Panel:
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| 13:30–15:30 | Parallel 5 Women as game changers in research and innovation for climate change action and a fair Green Deal Moderator/Speaker: Carol Mungo, Stockholm Environment Institute, Nairobi Office N.B. This session is on Zoom. To prevent Zoom-spam we are not publishing the Zoom ID here, please login to the main conference platform (meetyoo) and click on "Room 4"
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| 15:30 | End of Day 2 |
Day 3, 8th June 2023
(live in-person format, language English - sessions will be recorded for online streaming)
All times are in GMT time zone Accra
| 09:00–09:35 | Opening Ceremony- MC- Odelia Sika-Ntiamoah Boampong Welcome Address by Mrs Lydie Hakizimana, CEO- AIMS NEI Address by Dr Elizabeth Pollitzer, MD Portia Ltd, UK Message from Henry Luce Foundation (video) |
| 09:35–09:45 | Oratory Interlude |
| 09:45–10:45 | High Level Ministerial Panel: Strategies and partnerships for sustainable green transition in Africa Moderator: Mrs. Odelia Sika-Ntiamoah Boampong, Ghanaian Entrepreneur, Global Director/Speaker: BBC Big Talk/Bloomberg Trained
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| 10:30–10:40 | Photo Sessions |
| 10:40–11:15 | Tea/Coffee Break |
| 11:15–12:30 | Plenary 1: The relationships between national policy imperatives for sustainable energy transition and gendered power dynamic: focus on Ghana This session brings together policy makers from the energy domain, but also other related areas such as environment, science, and technology, as well as societal welfare in Ghana, whose decisions are shaping pathways to a fair and just, sustainable, and a ‘greener’ future. Moderator: Mr Patrick K. Stephenson, Economic Consultant/Researcher/Financial Journalist
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| 12:15–13:15 | LUNCH BREAK |
| 13:15–13:45 | Keynote Keynote- Policy and Implementation strategies for youth dividend for just energy transitions Mavis Owusu-Gyamfi, Executive Vice President, African Center for Economic Transformation |
| 13:45–15:00 | Plenary 2: IDRC session 1: Promoting gender equality and inclusion in the clean energy transition Gender equality is proving necessary for successful adaptation to climate change and the transition to low-carbon economies, not least because it unleashes women’s leadership, and potential. The session will discuss policy implications of field-tested solutions and action-oriented research supported by IDRC, UN WOMEN, the UN Institute for Natural Resources in Africa and ECOWAS Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency. Panellists and participants will reflect on policy options to promote gender equality and women’s economic empowerment in the transition to clean energy. The interplay between these and the challenges and opportunities for green transition will be brought to the fore in an intersectional manner. This session reports on the work programme and outcomes from the projects funded by IDRC. Keynote Speaker: William Baah-Boateng, Professor of Economics and Head of Economics Department, University of Ghana Moderator: Flaubert Mbiekop, Senior Program Specialist, Sustainable Inclusive Economies with Canada’s International Development Research Centre.
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| 15:00–15:15 | BREAK |
| 15:15–16:30 | Plenary 3: Harmonising and coordinating gender mainstreaming into energy transition policies This session will examine how to implement gender mainstreaming into energy transition policies at the intersection between mitigation of the consequences of climate change on society and environment and the evidence that societies depend on the wellbeing of environmental ecosystems for their livelihood. Moderator: Dorothy Ngila, Director, Knowledge Networks and SGCI, Strategic Partnerships, NRF-SA
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| 16:30–17:30 | Plenary 4: Accessing the Challenges and Opportunities associated with the Just Energy Transitions in relation to Climate Change and Gender Equity in Africa Moderator: Vicky Kondi, AIMS post doc researcher
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| 17:30 | End of Day 1 |
Day 4, 9th June 2023
(live in-person format, language English - sessions will be recorded for online streaming)
All times are in GMT time zone
| 09:00–09:08 | Welcome Comments Adelaide Asante, COO, AIMS Ghana Address by Hans Stausboll, Acting Director, European Commission, DG for International Partnerships (via video) |
| 09:08–09:23 | Keynote - Innovative Private Sector Funding Models for Sustainable Energy Transitions in African Countries Mr. Normand Michaud, Director at Econoler, Canada and Consultant at SUNREF Ghana, Energy Commission, Ghana |
| 09:23–10:53 | Plenary 5: Integrating gender considerations into energy transition processes and outcomes: focus on, and learning from, multinational and multi-stakeholder co-operation partnerships. This session recognises the importance of international and inter-institutional collaboration, co-operation, and co-creation of the responses to energy-related climate change impacts on communities, countries, and the environment. Moderator: Ms. Deborah Logan. Publishing Director, Energy & Earth Journals, Elsevier
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| 10:53–11:08 | BREAK |
| 11:08–12:38 | Plenary 6: IDRC Session 2: Interrogating and Addressing Gendered Inequities in Southern Research Systems to Promote Inclusive Clean Energy Transitions in the South. This panel will be composed of four senior and junior experts and moderated by IDRC. Participants will reflect on their own experiences working as women researchers in the clean energy space in Southern research systems. Reflecting on their experiences will shed light on the systematic and systemic barriers women STEM researchers experience participating in this work in these contexts. Recommendations will be directed at policy and practice changes that can be made in Southern research systems to ensure gender transformation is front and centre to clean energy transition research and innovation in Africa and beyond. Moderator: Katie Bryant, Program Officer, Education & Science Division, International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
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| 12:38–14:08 | Plenary 7: A gender perspective on knowledge for SDGs: developing global expertise, resources, tools, and best practice approaches to influence just development, both locally and globally. This session will examine research and practice that enhance opportunities to advance gender knowledge to support and promote gender equality benefits across all SDGs but in particular SDG7 (energy) and its interconnections with other SDGs. Moderator:Prof Nana Ama Browne Klutse, Department of Physics, University of Ghana
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| 14:08–15:08 | BREAK |
| 15:08-15:25 | Keynote – African SDG research landscape: a research output-based analysis Mr. M’hamed el Aisati, VP Analytical & Data Services, Elsevier |
| 15:25-17:00 | Plenary 8: Strengthening concepts of gender equality and inclusivity in the policy and practices of the grant-making cycle This session will introduce the Science Granting Councils Initiative and explore how gender equality and inclusivity concepts could be integrated into a grant-making cycle's activities to make research responsive to social needs, including access to affordable energy services, as well as enhancing scientific excellence and improving research methodologies. Such a cycle directly supports national governments in achieving national development and is linked SDG commitments. The session is led by the Human Science Research Council, and will report on the progress and ambitions of science granting agencies across Africa. For more information on Plenary 8, please download the session PDF here. Session Chair: Dr Wilhelmina Quaye, Director of the CSIR-Science and Technology Policy Research Institute, Ghana Welcome Messages: Dr Diakalia Sanogo, Senior Program Specialist, Regional Office for West and Central Africa, IDRC Keynote Speaker: Dr Ingrid Lynch, Principal Investigator of the SGCI Gender Equality & Inclusivity Project, Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), South Africa Framing the Councils’ GEI context-responsive actions Moderator: Mrs Hildegalda Mushi, Tanzania Commission on Science and Technology (COSTECH) Elaborating on SGC innovations for advancing GEI in STI Panelists:
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| 17:00-17:10 | GS23 CLOSING STATEMENTS Dr. Prince Osei, Centre President, AIMS-Ghana / Dr. Elizabeth Pollitzer, MD Portia Ltd, UK |
| 17:25-19:00 | NETWORKING AND RECEPTION |