Georgia
Kosovo
Serbia
Moldova
Ukraine
North Macedonia
Energy Community Contracting Parties are advancing women's leadership in the Energy Sector. Here's how.
Across the Energy Community region, governments are advancing initiatives to increase women's leadership in the energy transition, recognising that a just and clean transition will only succeed if it is gender equal.
While the transition toward cleaner, integrated energy systems is accelerating in the Energy Community region, women remain underrepresented across much of the energy workforce across the Energy Community's nine contracting parties: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo*, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Ukraine.
As the Energy Community Secretariat has written about previously, according to analyses from the World Bank, OECD, and other sources, across the Western Balkans, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, women make up only about 17-18% of the energy sector workforce.
Yet this, too, is changing. Across the region, governments and institutions are advancing gender equality—through education, leadership opportunities, and inclusive policies— in the knowledge that a gender equal energy sector means stronger decision-making, better innovation, and a more effective energy transition. In honour of International Women's Day on March 8, we asked our Contracting Parties to reflect on these efforts and why they matter. Six of them answered.