JustGESI Publishes First Newsletter of 2026
The JustGESI project has published its first newsletter of 2026, offering a lively snapshot of the project’s growing momentum and expanding engagement with stakeholders and policy processes.
The current issue highlights how JustGESI’s work is taking shape across its partner countries, alongside reflections on policy and academic engagements, fieldnotes, emerging insights, new publications, and upcoming events.
Since its official launch last year, the project’s international and interdisciplinary team has focused on building a strong foundation. This has included in-depth policy reviews, sustained collaboration with key stakeholders, and the careful development of the project’s logic model and research methodologies. With this groundwork in place, JustGESI is now entering an exciting phase of active field research.
Research teams in Malawi, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Tanzania, South Africa, and the UK are working collaboratively to advance several key initiatives. These include supporting eCooking projects that centre the knowledge and skills of women and marginalised groups, conducting Institutional Ethnographies within energy institutions, and exploring gender and inclusion gaps in engineering education through surveys and focus group discussions. The project is also developing a Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) Open Online Module aimed at fostering more inclusive engineering curricula and practices.
The newsletter captures a range of recent activities and engagements. These include the JustGESI Work Package 1 in-person meeting and learning exchange in Dar es Salaam, as well as growing policy engagement, with JustGESI’s Principal Investigator’s research being featured in the UK Parliamentary report and JustGESI team members contributions to energy sector dialogues in Ethiopia.
JustGESI’s institutional and academic collaborations continue to expand. Highlights include the launch of JustGESI at Mzuzu University in Malawi and a participatory workshop on gender equity and inclusive practices at Loughborough University. Team members have also contributed to wider academic conversations through conference poster presentations and events focused on equity, diversity, and inclusion in energy research.
Grounded insights from the field remain central to the project. This issue shares fieldnotes from Malawi, alongside reflections from JustGESI Xchange events that explore feminist ways of knowing and the barriers to inclusivity across the solar value chain.
Looking ahead, the newsletter introduces upcoming Xchange events and showcases recent publications on GESI and energy policies in Mozambique and Ethiopia, as well as reflections linked to the Global Environment Outlook 7 report.
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