Reports – Empowermed

Energy poverty in Europe & Germany: diagnosis about policies & legislative frameworks, advocacy about gender & inclusion

Published on: February 15, 2022

An estimated 50 million households in Europe do not have adequate access to essential energy services and goods. With steadily rising energy costs and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, many more vulnerable people already at risk may slip under the line of energy poverty, soon. This report sheds light on the issue of energy poverty in… Read More »Energy poverty in Europe & Germany: diagnosis about policies & legislative frameworks, advocacy about gender & inclusion

Set of data collection tools and manuals in different formats

Published on: July 14, 2021

Having settled the framework for data acquisition in the EmpowerMed project, which is absolutely necessary to evaluate the good advancement and achievements of the project, this deliverable presents the master documents that will be used in each different activity of the project. These documents go from manual uses of specific devices to on-line questionnaires including… Read More »Set of data collection tools and manuals in different formats

Data recording, collection framework and analysis framework

Published on: July 14, 2021

Most of the activities done in the social sector need the support of data to validate its soundness and robustness. Failing to do so means that it is hard to evaluate how efficient the measures were and how performant the whole project has been.This report sets the basis and framework for the data acquisition for… Read More »Data recording, collection framework and analysis framework

Energy poverty and gender – Facts and arguments

Published on: May 20, 2021

Women and women-led households are disproportionately affected by energy poverty – a condition that becomes aggravated when gender inequality is exacerbated by age, class and ethnic background among other factors. This can be linked to their physiological and health situation as well as their economic and social status, as all these dimensions or combination of… Read More »Energy poverty and gender – Facts and arguments

Report on gender aspects of existing financial schemes for energy poverty measures

Published on: July 1, 2020

Today, women are more likely to face poverty and hence, more affected by energy poverty. Therefore, it becomes clear that gender inequality increases the risk of energy poverty. Although EU institutions acknowledge the need to reduce energy poverty by organising financial support programmes, this report finds that considerations of gender dimensions within the evaluated programmes… Read More »Report on gender aspects of existing financial schemes for energy poverty measures

Review of previous EU experiences. Assessment from an energy poverty, gender, health and Mediterranean perspective