Adaku Ufere-Awoonor

Adaku Ufere (born July 7, 1985) is a Nigerian energy professional and an international oil and gas, gender and development lawyer. She is the current Chief of Party of the USAID-funded Power Africa West Africa Energy Program in Accra, Ghana. She also founded Energy & Gender consulting firm DAX Consult.

Quotes

• We can’t just have one huge monolith of the national grid. It doesn’t work; it hasn’t worked.
  • [https://businessday.ng/interview/women-in-business/article/we-cant-just-have-one-huge-monolith-of-the-national-grid-ufere-awoonor/
  • We can’t just have one huge monolith of the national grid’- Ufere-Awoonor]. BUSSINESS DAY, 26 July 2019.

• When there’s no electricity, women get beaten more.
  • Interview: Adaku Ufere-Awoonor SHARED VALUED AFRICA INITIATIVE, 22 November 2018.

• Women bear the greatest burden of energy poverty. If there’s no electricity or water in the home, it’s the woman that goes out to fetch the firewood, the woman that goes out to fetch water, and this over long distances. There’s actually a phrase for it: ‘time poverty’ – and women suffer huge time poverty, because they’re the homemakers, they run businesses, and they also have to do all this demanding domestic work that the men don’t have to do.
  • Interview: Adaku Ufere-Awoonor SHARED VALUED AFRICA INITIATIVE, 22 November 2018.