KATHMANDU: The first regional conference of the Women in Power Sector Professional Network (WePOWER) has kicked off in Lalitpur today. The two-day conference is being organized to send a message that South Asian women are competent to take up responsibilities in challenging fields as their male counterparts on an equal footing by breaking the four walls.
The event organized with the objective of encouraging women’s participation in power sector on the initiation of the World Bank was inaugurated by WB country director for Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka, Idah Z Pswarayi-Riddihough.
On the occasion, she said every woman in South Asia is competitive and is ready to take up any chhallenging responsibility if given the opportunity.
A total of 250 women engineers associated with the government and non-government organizations from the SAARC countries are attending the seminar, which will go through discussions about women entrepreneurship in energy, participation of women/female engineers in it and guarantee of retention of them, opportunities for career development of junior engineers, energy and gender balance and women’s contribution to the renewable energy sector.
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