Fostering women's professional development in off-grid solar

We worked with Sun King to improve gender balance and inclusion of female mid-managers, as well as upskill and mentor women in more junior sales roles.

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Despite some advancements in recent years, the global energy sector workforce remains male-dominated. One company trying to change that is Sun King, a leading provider of off-grid solar energy solutions.

Following a gender diagnostic where it identified that only 10% of its regional sales managers were women despite women making up 45% of sales agents, Sun King sought our technical assistance along with Norfund to pilot two interventions aimed at empowering women in sales positions.

The first sought to foster a sense of community for women sales managers through peer learning circles, and the second was focused on developing an e-learning programme aimed at building foundational skills and professional development.

Impact highlights from these initiatives include:

• Demonstrated increase in women’s sense of confidence and community with colleagues
• Groundwork laid for scale up and refinement of both interventions to reach more women more effectively by applying the lessons from the pilot
• Greater organisational awareness of gender-differentiated experiences of women in sales roles, leading to wider shifts in policies and practices to support a more inclusive workplace

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