Published on: September 22, 2023
After 4 years, the EmpowerMed project is coming to an end. Empowering women to take action in the Mediterranean, this was the main objective of the project. Find all the achievements of the project in this final report: building capacities, practical actions to fight against energy poverty and to empower vulnerable households especially women, advocacy… Read More »Project EmpowerMed in a nutshell
Published on: August 30, 2023
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
Published on: December 14, 2022
This report presents an analysis of the current situation of households that participated in practical actions of EmpowerMed project and examine situations of households, mainly affected by energy poverty, from the different pilot regions in the Mediterranean. From Spain to Albania, through France, Italia, Slovenia and Croatia, the results highlight the characteristic of affected households,… Read More »Exploring the situations of households affected by energy poverty -EmpowerMed cross-pilot analysis
Published on: December 14, 2022
This document presents and compares the results obtained through the different actions implemented, in the framework of EmpowerMed project, by each pilot, and also analyses the impact of each action individually. Five different actions are considered part of EmpowerMed’s strategy against energy poverty in Mediterranean: – Community approaches, – Household visits, – DIY workshops (PV… Read More »Comparative analysis of implemented practical measures against energy poverty
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
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
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
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
Published on: July 1, 2020
This report offers a critical review of EU-funded energy, environment and society projects to identify key gaps and lessons learned. As recommendations for the EmpowerMed project, it calls to reconsider energy saving through behaviour change goals as vulnerable households struggle to achieve a minimum level of domestic energy services required for a life with dignity;… Read More »Review of previous EU experiences. Assessment from an energy poverty, gender, health and Mediterranean perspective