FENACOF MALI - Fédération National des Collectifs \'Organisations Féminines du Ma

Organisation non gouvernementale ONG.
The seed funding will be used to actively engage the members of the Malian ENERGIA Network in advocacy and lobbying work towards the government and the municipal authorities to ensure that gender approaches are mainstreamed in the energy sector development policies in order to improve women’s status, providing them with more opportunities for income-generating work to increase their resilience to climate chance and also improve their general health and living conditions.
This will be achieved through the drafting of a position paper that will be used to lobby the government, the parliamentarians and municipal authorities on the need for gender sensitive considerations in energy and climate change policies. This paper will be presented to key stakeholders involved in gender, energy and climate change issues. 
One workshop will be organised to share experiences gained by the network’s members in implementing gender sensitive energy and climate adaptation projects with decision makers and development planners. The Network members already have some projects including the utilisation of solar lighting in health centre to ease the delivery at night for pregnant women and also for medicine refrigeration. There are also multifunctional platform comprising diesel engine that can power several devices including cereals grinding, oil expeller and generator. These platforms mainly benefit women as they provide mechanical and electrical power that eases the work of women. For example the grinding machine is used to grind shea nut for butter production, which is an important source of income for women in Mali. There are also projects using solar photovoltaic to pump ground water, which is used for drinking water and gardening activities. 
These workshops will offer an opportunity to discuss the constraints affecting women, and the ways for women to gain better access to energy for domestic and productive purposes to adapt to climate change.