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Determinants of energy use in the informal food sector
Although enterprises in the informal food sector require energy to transform, cook and process food, energy-use patterns in this sector are not well understood by policymakers and the local-level authorities who regulate their trading activities. This paper reviews relevant literature and presents empirical data collected in Rwanda, Senegal and South Africa on the use of…
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Energy use in informal food enterprises: A gender perspective
The informal sector provides economic opportunities to the poor, and in sub-Saharan African countries it is dominated by women. Energy is a key input into the food sector enterprises. A study was carried out to review academic and non-academic literature on the use and gender impacts of modern energy in informal food enterprises. The review…
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Best Practices in Accelerating Access to Clean Household Energy: A Collection of Evidence from wPOWER Partners
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Rice Cookers, Social Media, and Unruly Women: Disentangling Electricity’s Gendered Implications in Rural Nepal
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Increasing Women’s Participation in the Power Sector through Human Resources Interventions: A Best Practices Framework
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Building the Evidence Base for Women’s Entrepreneurship in the Energy Sector
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Short-run subsidies and long-run demand for health and environmental products: Evidence from two randomized trials in East Africa
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Pioneering Power: Transforming lives through off-grid renewable electricity in Africa and Asia
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Pioneering Power: Transforming lives through off-grid renewable electricity in Africa and Asia
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Pioneering Power: Transforming lives through off-grid renewable electricity in Africa and Asia
This report examines the challenge of how to bring power to over one billion people who live withoutelectricity, mostly in very remote, rural areas in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Countries in Africa andAsia need reliable energy to power economic development, and off-grid renewable electricity offers new waysto provide reliable sources of energy. African and…
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RWANDA: Beyond Connections: Energy Access Diagnostic Report Based on the Multi-Tier Framework
The MTF survey is a global baseline survey on household access to electricity and clean cooking, which goes beyond the binary approach to look at access as a spectrum of service levels experienced by households. Resources included are raw data, codebook, questionnaires, sampling strategy document, and country diagnostic report. Formats include zip file (which includes…
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Solar powered electricity access: Implications for women’s empowerment in rural Kenya