Archives: Documents
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Mainstreaming Gender in Energy
This presentation starts out by explaining why gender is so important in the context of energy. It then continues to ask what a meaningful participation of women in energy initiatives means and what the constraints are in achieving this meaningful participation. It concludes by exploring the possible roles for ENERGIA to play in this field…
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Enabling Equitable Access to Rural Electrification: Current thinking on energy, poverty and gender
This briefing paper summarizes current thinking on energy, poverty and gender. A particular focus is given on rural electrification with renewable energy, based on ASTAE’s comparative advantage historically. A companion report on major institutional actors and their activities has also been prepared.
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Is the Gender Dimension of the Climate Debate Forgotten? Engendering the Climate Debate: Vulnerability, Adaptation, Mitigation and Financial Mechanisms
This report and attached presentation by the authors shows that gender and climate change issues has received minimal attention so far. Raising visibility of gender issues in climate change is crucial to ensure gender issues are mainstreamed into the debate surrounding the subject. Especially poor women are vulnerable to climate change and may bear an…
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Mainstreaming Gender in Climate Change – Vulnerability, Impacts and Adaptation viewed through Gender Lenses
Gender is absent in the climate change debate and the question is whether and how women could start playing a role. Women have strong links with the environment and for various reasons are more vulnerable to environmental changes. A number of adaptation and mitigation strategies are discussed and recommendations are given how gender should be…
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Gender and Biomass Energy Conservation in Namibia: A Case Study with Special Reference to GTZ/ProBEC Interventions
Meeting women’s needs is often taken for granted in household energy and improved stoves programmes which are usually technical interventions, rather than socioeconomic ones. Gender perspectives in biomass energy conservation have seldom been examined closely. The objective of this case study was to demonstrate how gender aspects can be successfully integrated at different levels in…
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Gender and Energy: South-North Perspectives
This presentation explores some of the current thinking on development, what the implications are for the energy sector, and then examines the gender implications of the energy-poverty nexus. Following on from this, the paper looks at the role renewable energy technologies have to play in this arena. It also intends to make a few remarks…
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Gender in Improved Cookstove Program
This special issue on gender in improved cookstove programmes focuses strongly on gender sensitive participatory monitoring and evaluation of improved cookstove programmes. ARECOP has developed these guidelines and tools so that the application of a gender and participatory approach could be more accessible to more stove practitioners.