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Powersouth
PowerSouth offers professional services to instate women in management and ownership roles at local projects in countries like India.
For carbon market actors and investors – we help you achieve climate action and gender justice by increasing the number of SDG 5 elements in your projects. This will enhance carbon credits towards gender empowerment making women project protagonists and not just beneficiaries.
For companies investing in CSR – we will add value to your corporate communication at the local level by employing the SDG 5 lens framing the gender narrative and sharing stories and lessons to herald your company as a true gender champion.
Resources/Blogs
PowerSouth in conversation with women monitors of UUI
Here is what the women monitors from the clean cookstove Gold Standard projects have to share with us on if and how the clean cookstove projects have benefitted them? We learn of different dimensions on what Gender Equality SDG5 looks like from a local lens.
PowerSouth at the Migrants4Climate Award
A wonderful validation of our work being selected as one of the 10 finalists in the prestigious Migrants4Climate Award at the Global Forum for Migration and Development 2024 in Geneva. The fact that we were deemed as ‘ innovative, inspiring and relevant’ gives us hope to power through.
PowerSouth in conversation with Wendy Sanassee, EarthSpark International on Feminist Electrification
This interview, conducted remotely as Climate Week 2023 kicks off in NYC, explores their groundbreaking work the 2018 winner of the UN Momentum for Change Award.
Meet Sheela Damor – our gender champion
Climate change and gender are intrinsically linked. Here is our brief conversation with Sheela Damor – a centre coordinator on how clean cookstoves, environment and livelihoods go hand in hand.
PowerSouth meet the women of Udaipur Urja
Listen to the inspiring stories of the women monitors of Udaipur Urja clean cookstoves and hear from them how the project has changed their lives.
BLOG: Empowered Women at the Forefront of the Carbon Market.
Are we missing a golden opportunity in Carbon Offset Projects? Enhancing the role of women towards social and political empowerment. Here is our take on this.
Women and the Carbon Market
PowerSouth reviews the Gold Standard Guidelines on gender equality requirements to make carbon markets and carbon projects the domain of women.
Our Advocacy Efforts with Global Landscape Forum
PowerSouth reaches out to Global Landscape Forum to rethink their decision of making an Indian guru a key speaker in an ecology forum.
PowerSouth Survey Analysis
PowerSouth launched a survey in 2021 to understand the challenges and needs between the global south and the north in the environment and development sectors.
Power dynamics between the donors and recipients.
PowerSouth talks about whether the funds and investments reach the intended community or gets lost through transaction intermediaries.
Write to Us
As finalists to the GIZ Diaspora 2030 programme and the Social Tides Aspire Germany programme we are actively seeking the first pilot projects.
If the concept is of interest to you then please reach out to us at info@powersouth.de
Did you Know
Women in India on average hold approx less than 15 percent ownership of land in India, according to the Center for Land Governance index.
Women in leadership are more likely to proactively improve energy efficiency, invest in renewable energies, and measure and reduce carbon emissions.
(Source: CDC, Gender-smart Investing as an Enabler of the Just Transition, 2020)
Germany committed an additional 10 billion Euro assistance to India to help achieve climate action targets set for 2030.
(Source: Joint Statement issued after the sixth India-Germany Inter-Governmental Consultations (IGC))
Our Team
Tasneem Balasinorwala
Co-Founder
Diya Deb
Co-Founder
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