Mainstreaming Gender Equality and Social Inclusion for a Just Energy Transition in Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania (JustGESI) is a 3-year interdisciplinary project funded by the UKRI’s Ayrton Challenge Programme.
The project brings together leading institutions in these four countries to deliver a transformative programme of research integrating engineering with critical social science.
Research on clean energy transitions has historically overlooked issues of Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI), leading to poor outcomes for women and marginalised groups. JustGESI aims to ensure that future energy transitions are equitable by advancing equality and inclusion in projects on the ground and in policy reform, and by addressing the skills gaps that have historically kept women and marginalised groups out of the clean energy economy. It focuses on the strategies of institutional change and capacity building as key levers to bring about a radical change to advance gender justice in the transition to clean energy.
JustGESI continues the work completed by the project Community Energy and Sustainable Energy Transitions (CESET), also funded by UKRI through the Global Challenges Research Fund.
“I am proud to lead this dynamic, interdisciplinary group of scholars to move beyond tick-boxing approaches to GESI and focus instead on the root causes of discrimination and exclusion to make a sustainable and just energy transition possible.”