Archives: Documents
-
Gender and Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform: Current Status of Research
This research project aims to investigate the impacts from fossil fuel subsidy reform on poor women in Bangladesh, India and Nigeria. This initial scoping report finds no primary, quantitative research on the question of the gender-differentiated impact of fossil fuel subsidy reforms. However, there is a large body of literature linked to energy access and…
-
Gender and Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform: Implications for India, Bangladesh and Nigeria
This paper reviews the available literature on the impacts of fossil fuel subsidies on women and gender empowerment. It is an input to a four-year research program on the issue coordinated by the Global Subsidies Initiative (GSI) of IISD. The review, undertaken in 2015, attempts to assess the impacts of fossil fuel subsidies on women…
-
Productive uses of energy: The informal food sector in South Africa, Rwanda and Senegal
This report represents the Scoping Phase (Phase 1) of Research Area 2 – Productive uses of Energy – of ENERGIA’s Gender and Energy Research Programme. This Research Area applies a gender perspective to explore: (i) the energy sources used by micro and small enterprises in the informal food sector; (ii) the changes that may be…
-
Exploring Factors that Enhance and restrict Women’s Empowerment through Electrification (EFEWEE) – Scoping study report
The overall objective of this independent research project is to examine how policy and practice may enhance women’s empowerment though electrification in rural areas in the South. We consider women’s empowerment as a process towards gender equality, hence a concept that requires analytic attention to women, men, girls and boys. We divide the work into…
-
Integração da Abordagem de Género no Sector de Energia. Manual Sobre Género e Energia
Portuguese Translation – Mozambique
-
Gender Mainstreaming in the Botswana Power Corporation
Mainstreaming Gender in Energy Projects Knowledge Products In 2007 ENERGIA started with its strategy to mainstream gender in energy projects. We worked with seven energy projects on gender mainstreaming. The projects varied from rural electrification programs to biogas to cook stove projects. Some were household energy projects, others also had a strong focus on energy…
-
Gender Mainstreaming in the UAIMES-PR Programme, Tanzania
Mainstreaming Gender in Energy Projects Knowledge Products In 2007 ENERGIA started with its strategy to mainstream gender in energy projects. We worked with seven energy projects on gender mainstreaming. The projects varied from rural electrification programs to biogas to cook stove projects. Some were household energy projects, others also had a strong focus on energy…
-
![Integration du Genre dans le PERACOD, Senegal [in French]](https://energia.org/assets/2020/01/09.-Case_Study_Senegal-Page-1-235x235-1.png)
Integration du Genre dans le PERACOD, Senegal [in French]
Mainstreaming Gender in Energy Projects Knowledge Products In 2007 ENERGIA started with its strategy to mainstream gender in energy projects. We worked with seven energy projects on gender mainstreaming. The projects varied from rural electrification programs to biogas to cook stove projects. Some were household energy projects, others also had a strong focus on energy…
-
ENERGIA Handbook for Gender Audit of Draft National Energy Policy for Lesotho
This handbook is intended as working guide on “how to” conduct the gender audit for the Lesotho draft National Energy Policy. Its intended users and authors are the national gender audit team and the ENERGIA technical advisor. The handbook provides a process, methods and tools that identifies and analyzes factors that hinder efforts to mainstream…
-
A Guide on Gender Mainstreaming in the Africa Biogas Partnership Programme (ABPP)
This Gender Mainstreaming (GM) Guide has been developed by ENERGIA, the International network on Gender and Sustainable Energy, as preparation for the Workshop on Gender Mainstreaming in ABPP, to be held in Nairobi on 18-19th May, 2010.The draft was discussed at the workshop, and additional inputs incorporated in the final version. The Gender Mainstreaming Guide…
-
Biofuels for Sustainable Rural Development and Empowerment of Women
This book of case studies represents a collaborative effort to explore the potential of biofuels to provide sustainable livelihoods and local sources of energy for people in rural areas of developing countries, with a special emphasis on women. Although there are many forms of bio-energy that can be useful in this regard, our focus in…
-
Gender, Climate Change and Human Security – Lessons from Bangladesh, Ghana and Senegal
This study presents a gendered analysis of how climate change impacts on human security. It also assesses whether adequate scope exists for women to participate in improved human security in a scenario of changing climate. Based on this analysis, recommendations are givenfor enhancing the integration of a gender perspective in climate change and human security…