Impact Stories from Environmental Sustainability Policy Area

Project Tajikistan: Energy for Education

Fellow(s): Gulnora Anvarova

Country: Tajikistan

Cohort: 2015

Policy Area(s): Environmental Sustainability

Gulnora Anvarova, 2015 fellow of Tajikistan, is leading a partnership between her university, Tajik Technical University, and Poland’s AGH University of Science and Technology. The goal of Project Tajikistan: Energy for Education is to share STEM knowledge between university students and address Tajikistan’s power shortages. A group of 20 Tajik students will participate in a course via internet focused on renewable energy and energy efficiency.

Report Date...: 3/20/2017

environmental campaign

Fellow(s): Sara Benyakhlef

Country: Morocco

Cohort: 2015

Policy Area(s): Environmental Sustainability

Sara Benyakhlef, 2015 fellow of Morocco, is a member of the Marine Area Protection & Sustainable Development (AMP Morocco), which recently co-organized an environmental campaign with Moroccan Coalition for Climate Justice to raise awareness against the use of plastic bags in Morocco. Sara works as a researcher at the Research Institute for Solar Energy and New Energies plans to continue working with AMP Morocco to create a national movement for climate change and environment protections and get more youth involved.

Report Date...: 7/4/2016

Leading Women in Water and Technology

Fellow(s): Sophie Ngassa

Country: Cameroon

Cohort: 2014

Policy Area(s): Environmental Sustainability

After the 2014 program, Sophie Ngassa of Cameroon created the platform, “Leading Women in Water and Technology.” In a recent video interview with The Waterbearers’ co-founder Spryte Loriano, Sophie referred to the TechWomen program as her source of inspiration for the platform she created. Sophie has been teaching at a technical college for 10 years, and she is passionate about improving access to clean water resources and promoting use of green technology and sanitation practices in Cameroon.

Report Date...: 4/18/2016

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Fellow(s): Saida Yusupova, Elena Selezneva

Country: Uzbekistan
Region: CSA
Cohort: 2016
Project/Action: Fellows establish Uzbekistan’s first green tech accelerator
Policy Area(s): Economic Impact, Education Diplomacy/Mentoring, Entrepreneurship, Environmental Sustainability, Professional Growth
Recently, 2016 fellows Saida Yusupova and Elena Selezneva organized
Uzbekistan’s first green startup accelerator program. The accelerator,
Water Solutions Innovation Lab, was established for green business
startups that are working to advance green technologies and solve water
challenges.
The accelerator was implemented by Saida’s company, Green Business
Innovation, and founded with a mission to create awareness about
environmental challenges and bring the latest innovative technologies to
the agricultural and environmental sectors within the country. Earlier this
year, the innovation lab accepted 12 startups into an intensive six month
program, and became the first Uzbek program to partner with
ClimateLaunchpad, the world’s largest green business ideas competition.
During the program, ClimateLaunchpad’s founder and lead trainer
traveled to Uzbekistan to conduct a two-day bootcamp for participating startups.
The program culminated with a Demo Day in August, held in partnership with ClimateLaunchpad, where the teams pitched a group of judges and local investors. The two winning startups were invited to the ClimateLaunchpad Grand Finale in Amsterdam, which will be held in November. VIOM, the team that won first place, consists of two women who are producing water-soluble and biodegradable products for agricultural applications.
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Report Date: 9/2/19
Fellow(s): Afnan Saqr, Janet Leparteleg

Country: Jordan, Kenya
Region: MENA, SSA
Cohort: 2015, 2017
Project/Action: Fellows win Chevening scholarship
Policy Area(s): Professional Growth
This week, it was announced that 2015 fellow of Jordan Afnan Saqr and 2017 fellow of Kenya Janet Leparteleg are recipients of the Chevening Scholarship. With over 50,000 alumni worldwide, the program awards global leaders fully-funded scholarships to pursue a one-year master’s degree at a UK-based institution.
Afnan is one of 15 Jordanians selected out of the 750 applications that were submitted from the country. She will be studying innovation and entrepreneurship at the University of Warwick, one of the UK’s top 10 universities. Janet will be pursuing a master’s in cybersecurity at Lancaster University. During TechWomen, Janet was hosted at Symantec, a cybersecurity software company. “My time at Symantec during TechWomen shaped my career path a lot,” said Janet. “There, I had time to meet and talk with people in the cybersecurity field, and their insights changed my thinking and enabled me to plan well for my career.”
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Report Date: 9/2/19