Powering Change, Centring Women

A global feminist network reshaping the Global South’s energy future through community, care, and climate justice.

we amplify the voices of women and marginalised communities

SHINE Collab is a global feminist network accelerating gender-just solutions at the intersection of energy access, climate resilience, and community power. Through storytelling, systems change, and collaboration, we amplify the voices of women and marginalised communities, driving transformative energy justice.

thematic areas

Climate

Women are the first responders to climate change and have the knowledge and strategies that, if resourced, could better mitigate climate change. By supporting their development through energy access, vulnerability can be reduced.

Gender

Initiatives that directly engage women and their organisations around energy access, with an intersectional and movement approach, reduce the drudgery and burden of care that occupy women’s time while leveraging their collective leadership and rights for economic and climate justice.

Energy Access

In the hands of local communities, energy access powers development and organising, improves livelihoods and climate resilience, and facilitates self-determination. Decentralised and scaled up energy access promises to challenge. An extractive, dirty energy development model.

Powering Impact

From solar cooperatives in Zimbabwe, to climate advocacy globally, SHINE collab supports women and the forefront of just energy transitions
0 +

African Countries Engaged

Collaborating across Africa to build inclusive, community-rooted renewable energy solutions.

0 +

Women-led Initiatives Supported

Fueling women’s leadership in clean energy, climate justice, and economic empowerment.

0 K+

Lives Empowered with Renewable Energy

Providing clean, reliable power where it’s needed most—homes, schools, and health centers.

12+
African Countries Engaged
Collaborating across Africa to build inclusive, community-rooted renewable energy solutions.
250+
Women-led Initiatives Supported
Fueling women’s leadership in clean energy, climate justice, and economic empowerment.
1k+
Lives Empowered with Renewable Energy
Providing clean, reliable power where it’s needed most—homes, schools, and health centers.
What's new at shine

Latest news and updates

Reparations & Resilience: Responding to the African Union's 2025 Theme
The African Union’s 2025 theme, “Justice for Africans and People of African Descent through Reparations,” offers a critical opening for our ...
Africa Energy Summit: Centring Decentralised, People-Powered Solutions
Alternative Mining Indaba: Feminist Resistance to Extractivism
Neither Land nor Women are Territories of Conquest: GIMAC 2025

EVENT CALENDAR

Stay connected to SHINE events across the continent: from community dialogues to global advocacy stages

3-5 September 2025

Shine Collab Reginal Workshop

8-10 September 2025

Second Africa Climate Summit

21 - 28 September 2025

Climate Week 2025 NYC 21

24 September 2025

Jane Fonda Gender and Climate Fund Launch

10-21 November, 2025

United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30)

29th august 2025

Earthlife in partnership with SHINE Launch of the Just Transition Centre in Soweto
Social feed

In our Voice