ABOUT SHINE

OUR BOLD AMBITION

Scaling women-led, community-driven renewable energy solutions for a gender just energy transition

OUR VISION

The SHINE Collab’s work is rooted in a Just Transition Framework.

The SHINE Collab’s envisions a world where women-led, community-driven decentralized renewable energy initiatives unlock climate solutions and address inequality.

The SHINE Collab envisions fresh thinking, new transformative partnerships, and new resources for women-led, community-driven energy to households, businesses and communities that have no or insufficient access to electricity, catalyzing gender-just climate solutions.

The SHINE Collab envisions a new narrative and agenda that embraces a holistic approach to gender justice, climate change and energy access, bringing life to a just transition.

The SHINE Collab goals are to:

Support Africa-based women-led small-scale enterprises and grassroots organizations to access and control renewable energy to improve livelihoods, safety and wellbeing and build their collective power to influence a better future.
Combine knowledge, networks and financing in support of frontline gender-just energy solutions and leadership, forging cross-sectoral partnerships across the gender justice, feminist, climate and energy sectors.
Shape the field and change the narrative that currently focuses on large-scale, top down energy and climate solutions using data and knowledge from practice to make the case for community-driven, women-led energy and climate alternatives.
Promote a gender just, power-building approach to the just energy transition in policy and practice that challenges the ongoing impact of extractives and fossil fuels, and promote people-centered alternatives.
Build the organizational capacity of the SHINE Collab to lead from the African Continent.