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While energy enterprises-support organizations are not many, a few of
them like the Renewable Energy Business Incubator Limited (REBI)
are promoting biomass technologies through empowering entrepreneurs
to take on these responsibilities by providing access to startup capital
and training. Associations play a critical role as the information hub
to encourage networking and collaboration. The Uganda Solar Energy
Association (USEA) for instance, is a membership organization that has
a catalogue of various players in the solar energy sector from financiers,
private businesses, government and many more. They are an umbrella
organization that can propagate entrepreneurship in energy. On a global
scale, the GOGLA association plays a similar role, and they have done so
in the developing world by providing data needed by entrepreneurs and
programmes in energy access.
9.4.4 Gender Equality in Clean Energy
Entrepreneurship
Much like many burgeoning sectors, the RE energy sector is dominated by men and has left little room for women. Women-support
organizations like Global Women’s Network for the Energy Transition
(GWNET) are promoting women in energy. In the last mile, it is women
who are most vulnerable to the effects of the toxic fumes released by
firewood and kerosene and by appealing and involving them more, the
ecosystem can grow (Global Women’s Network for the Energy Transition
2019).
9.4.5 Civil Society Involvement
Uganda’s civil society landscape is influenced by two major groups; the
donors who provide the financial backing and the implementing organizations that use the funding to carry out their mandated tasks. This is
the same principle in clean energy where donors prefer to work with
projects that are scalable and impactful. The implementing partners
are usually not profit-making but work on mandated missions to lift
M. Tumusiime
While energy enterprises-support organizations are not many, a few of
them like the Renewable Energy Business Incubator Limited (REBI)
are promoting biomass technologies through empowering entrepreneurs
to take on these responsibilities by providing access to startup capital
and training. Associations play a critical role as the information hub
to encourage networking and collaboration. The Uganda Solar Energy
Association (USEA) for instance, is a membership organization that has
a catalogue of various players in the solar energy sector from financiers,
private businesses, government and many more. They are an umbrella
organization that can propagate entrepreneurship in energy. On a global
scale, the GOGLA association plays a similar role, and they have done so
in the developing world by providing data needed by entrepreneurs and
programmes in energy access.
9.4.4 Gender Equality in Clean Energy
Entrepreneurship
Much like many burgeoning sectors, the RE energy sector is dominated by men and has left little room for women. Women-support
organizations like Global Women’s Network for the Energy Transition
(GWNET) are promoting women in energy. In the last mile, it is women
who are most vulnerable to the effects of the toxic fumes released by
firewood and kerosene and by appealing and involving them more, the
ecosystem can grow (Global Women’s Network for the Energy Transition
2019).
9.4.5 Civil Society Involvement
Uganda’s civil society landscape is influenced by two major groups; the
donors who provide the financial backing and the implementing organizations that use the funding to carry out their mandated tasks. This is
the same principle in clean energy where donors prefer to work with
projects that are scalable and impactful. The implementing partners
are usually not profit-making but work on mandated missions to lift