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Women and Productive Uses of Energy: Some light on a shadowy area
The objective of this paper is to briefly outline the key issues in mainstreaming gender issues in UNDP initiatives on Productive Uses of Renewable Energy (PURE), which is aimed at linking energy services with poverty reduction. The paper defines gender mainstreaming in the context of energy, the gender dimensions in PURE, identifies critical issues to…
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Gender & Energy for Sustainable Development: A Toolkit and Resource Guide
This toolkit and resource guide outlines the linkages between gender and energy in the context of sustainable development and provides suggestions and materials on how to address energy poverty by integrating gender and energy sensitivity into development programmes, projects, and policies.
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Gender Perspectives on the Conventions on Biodiversity, Climate Change and Desertification
The paper provides a gender-sensitive perspective on the three Rio Conventions on Biodiversity, Climate Change, and Desertification. First, the Rio conventions are placed in their historical context and their administrative and financial framework. Secondly, the main gender issues relevant to the three conventions are exposed. A comparative overview of the level of gender mainstreaming in…
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Tooling Up For Gender and Energy
The paper is concerned with the development of better gender analytic tools to mainstream gender in energy project and programme planning. It begins by explaining why it is important to take a gender aware approach in the planning of energy projects and programmes, and why gender is so often ignored. It proposes that improved gender…
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Mainstreaming Gender in Renewable Energy Sector
This presentation sets out to address the question why gender issues are important in the context of energy. It continues to argue that women need a meaningful participation in energy initiatives and explains what this means. Constraints to achieving meaningful participation are stated and policy needs and strategies are listed.
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Mainstreaming Gender in Renewable Energy Sector
This presentation sets out to address the question why gender issues are important in the context of energy. It continues to argue that women need a meaningful participation in energy initiatives and explains what this means. Constraints to achieving meaningful participation are stated and policy needs and strategies are listed.
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Increasing Gender Sensitivity when Planning for Energy and Transport Services
This is a summary report of a side event to the UNFCCC COP 9 in Milan titled ‘Promoting Gender Equality, Providing Energy Solutions, and Preventing Climate Change’, organised by the Swedish Ministry of Environment, on behalf of the Network of Women Ministers for the Environment. The overall question for the seminar was how a gender…
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Re-Thinking Gender and Energy: Old and new directions
This paper asks what approaches to policy research could help make the linkages among gender, energy and poverty more understandable and more convincing to policy makers and practitioners, both in the energy sector itself, and in the gender and development community. It attempts a “re-thinking” of the gender and energy paradigm, by looking both backwards…
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Gender Equity and Renewable Energies
The aim of this paper is to review existing evidence on the role of renewable energies in bringing gender equity. The paper first explores the evolution of thinking on gender and energy. Next, the reasons why gender analysis can help those people trying to increase the dissemination of renewable energy technologies are presented. There is…