Elizabeth Cecelski – 21 June 2015, Vienna, Austria From 18 – 20 June, UNIDO organized the Vienna Energy Forum 2015, together with SE4ALL. ENERGIA co-hosted a networking event and a side event on gender, energy and inclusive development. As one of ENERGIA’s technical advisor I attended this inspiring forum. It was good to see old […]
It was apparent at the 2015 SE4ALL Forum last week that the topic of gender has finally wedged its way into the energy access conversation. From the multi-stakeholder sessions early in the week, all the way through to the ministerial dialogues in the General Assembly hall at the United Nations, women were mentioned not only […]
Underscoring the importance of the impact of access to energy, or the lack thereof, on women and girls, the first two years of the Decade of Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) are dedicated to a global campaign on energy, women, children and health. In line with its commitment to SE4All, ENERGIA launched a new 1,3 […]
In Uganda, rural electrification is one of the major energy policy strategies for increasing access to energy services. The Energy for Transformation project is the main vehicle for putting this strategy into action. The current Monitoring & Evaluation system focuses on two poverty focused elements. The challenge now is to bring in the gender focus.
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 […]
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 […]
This paper sets out the reasons, both from a Southern and from a Northern perspective, why gender issues need to be more strongly integrated into energy policies, planning and projects, to increase sustainable energy access for women. It refers to relevant recommendations made at UN meetings and other expert gatherings and lists a number of […]
In the rural areas of India and other third world countries, women have traditionally shouldered the responsibility of managing the domestic energy requirements for their families. As the predominant sources of fuel are derived from biomass resources, women have a very intrinsic and symbiotic relationship with their surrounding natural resource system. However, due to a […]
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