a-project: Exploring factors that enhance and restrict women’s empowerment through electrification
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Energy and Gender in Asia: A regional review
The ongoing global energy transition towards a low carbon and sustainable future has the potential to bring far-reaching and systematic changes to our societies. This transition offers several opportunities for greater social justice and gender equality and is likely to create pathways to improve women’s quality of life. While making inroads into entrenched social structures,…
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In the light of what we cannot see: Exploring the interconnections between gender and electricity access
In this paper we quantify gendered decision-making patterns regarding electricity access, light and appliances in selected rural contexts in Mahadevsthan (Nepal), Homa Bay (Kenya) and Chhattisgarh (India). In the literature, decision-making in electricity has primarily been studied through case studies and qualitative methods. By quantifying some of the gendered patterns in this field, we first…
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Women’s empowerment and electricity access: How do grid and off-grid systems enhance or restrict gender equality?
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What drives the switch to modern energy? Linkages and gender implications
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Access to Reliable and Affordable Electricity for all Kenyans – and How Gender Matters
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Survey Report: RA1- EFEWEE Quantitative Survey
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Rice Cookers, Social Media, and Unruly Women: Disentangling Electricity’s Gendered Implications in Rural Nepal
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Solar powered electricity access: Implications for women’s empowerment in rural Kenya
This paper examines the gendered implications of various types of electricity access in rural Kenya spanning from the central grid to solar-based systems such as community projects, village scale supply and private solar home systems (SHS). Drawing on material collected in Homa Bay and Kitui counties in 2016, the paper examines the gendered set-up, organisation…
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Women’s empowerment through electricity access: scoping study and proposal for a framework of analysis
This article reviews the empirical literature on women’s empowerment through electricity access and the methodologies that have been used. Statistical studies have looked at areas with access to the grid and measured the impact on welfare indicators and employment. Qualitatively oriented studies have looked at various types of supply and studied how electricity access in…
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Women’s empowerment in energy projects: What is the meaning?