Gender Equality, Disability & Social Inclusion (GEDSI) Toolkit: Guide and Overview
Despite some progress, the potential of women, people with disabilities, and other excluded groups in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) remains unrealised, especially in energy access and poverty reduction programmes. This Toolkit has been developed to support organisations in taking a Gender Equality, Disability, and Social Inclusion (GEDSI) lens to their work within the Transforming Energy Access (TEA) platform and beyond. It supports TEA's aim of supporting a just and inclsuive energy transition that leaves no one behind.
While designed for TEA Delivery Partners, its tools, templates, and training materials may also be valuable to other organisations working across the energy access sector.
The updated version of this toolkit was developed by Value for Women on behalf of the TEA platform, with key insights from the Global Disability Innovation Hub and the Carbon Trust.
Value for Women is a global advisory services firm with a mission to promote women’s participation and leadership in business, finance and investment around the globe, with a focus on emerging markets.
Transforming Energy Access works via partnership to support emerging clean energy generation technologies,productive appliances, smart networks, energy storage, and more. It increases access to clean, modern energy services for people and enterprises in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and the Indo Pacific, improving their lives, creating jobs and boosting green economic opportunities.
Global Disability and Innovation Hub is a world leading delivery and practice Centre, an Academic Research Centre at University College London (UCL), and the first World Health Organization (WHO) Global Collaborating Centre on Assistive Technology, accelerating ideas into impact for a more just world—for disabled people, and all people. It offers a cross-platform delivery support service to TEA partners for targeted disability inclusion and innovation across energy access programmes.
The Carbon Trust is a global climate organisation driven by the mission to accelerate the move to a decarbonised future. They have been pioneering decarbonisation for more than 20 years for businesses, governments, and organisations. The Carbon Trust leads the consortium that provides oversight and management of the TEA platform.
