GEEST - Assessing women’s employment opportunities

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With support from the Canada Clean Energy and Forest Climate Facility (CCEFCF), the Geospatial Operational Support Team (GOST, DECSC) launched the project “Geospatial Assessment of Women Employment and Business Opportunities in the Renewable Energy Sector.” The project proposes a novel methodology for mapping the enabling environments for women’s employment. The goal is to inform new energy projects in client countries to support the advancement of women’s economic empowerment while contributing to closing gender gaps in employment in the RE sector.

In addition to the methodology, the project has generated a geospatial open-source, QGIS tool for implementing the methodology. For more details, visit the GEEST project directly.

Fig. 3 GEEST was used to calculate the enabling score in Comoros, Dominican Republic, and Papua New Guinea

Countries included in the project:

AFRICA	LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN	EAST ASIA AND PACIFIC	SOUTH ASIA
Cabo Verde	Antigua and Barbuda	Federated States of Micronesia	Maldives
Comoros	Belize	Fiji
Guinea-Bissau	Dominica	Kiribati
Mauritius	Dominican Republic	Marshall Islands
São Tomé and Príncipe	Grenada	Nauru
	Guyana	Niue
	Haiti	Palau
	Jamaica	Papua New Guinea
	St. Lucia	Samoa
	St. Vincent and Grenadines	Solomon Islands
	Suriname	Timor-Leste
		Tonga
		Tuvalu
		Vanuatu