Full article By Alistair Wray Modern energy services are crucial for poor people, especially women and girls, in improving wellbeing, accessing social services and promoting productive employment. Girls and women’s opportunities are often the most constrained by a lack of light and power – with direct implications for movement at night, personal safety, education and […]
Globally, 1.3 billion are without modern power, and grid expansion is not expected to keep pace with population growth. The viability of most enterprises for renewable lighting has been severely limited by pricing of products and financing mechanisms available. Behavioural aspects such as inconvenience associated with use represent further barriers to uptake and use of […]
This new issue of ENERGIA News is dedicated to ENERGIA’s Gender and Energy Research Programme. Our gender and energy research programme runs from February 2014 to February 2019 with financial support from the UK Department for International Development (DFID). It aims to generate and analyse empirical evidence on the links between gender, energy and poverty, and to translate this evidence […]
This issue of ENERGIA News gives an introduction to the Gender and Energy Research Programme. The programme runs from February 2014 to February 2019 with financial support from the UK Department for International Development (DFID). The objective is to generate and analyse empirical evidence on the links between gender, energy and poverty, and to translate […]
5. The role of the private sector in scaling up energy access Lead partner: Environmental Economics Policy Research Unit (EPRU), South Africa branch of Environment for Development, Sweden Professor Martine Visser is in charge at EPRU for this research area. Consortium: Nuru East Africa Ltd (Nuru) Nuru Energy is an award-winning, for-profit social enterprise providing off-grid energy […]
4. Energy sector reform Lead Partner: Global Subsidies Initiative (GSI) of the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), Switzerland Laura Merrill is in charge at the Global Subsidies Initiative of IISD for this research area. Consortium: Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDs), Bangladesh BIDS is an autonomous public multi-disciplinary organization which conducts policy oriented research on development […]
3. The political economy of energy sector dynamics Lead Partner: M.S.Swaminathan Research Foundation, India Dr. Govind Kelkar is in charge at the M.S.Swaminathan Research Foundation for this research area. Consortium: Centre for Rural Technology, Nepal Centre for Rural Technology, Nepal (CRT/N) is a professional non-governmental organization engaged in developing and promoting appropriate rural technologies effective in meeting […]
2. Productive uses of energy; looking at the benefits of energy access for income generation Lead Partner: University of Twente – Department of Governance and Technology for Sustainability (CSTM), The Netherlands Professor Hans Th.A. Bressers is in charge at the Department of Governance and Technology for Sustainability (CSTM) for this research area. Consortium: University of Cape Town, […]
1. Electrification through grid and decentralised systems, with a focus on impacts Lead Partner: University of Oslo (UiO), Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), Norway Tanja Winther is in charge at the Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM) on this research area. Consortium: TERI, India A non-profit, scientific and policy research organization, […]
In 2014, the ENERGIA International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy established a large research programme to generate and analyse empirical evidence on the links between gender, energy and poverty, and to translate this evidence into recommendations for policy and practice. Five individual four-year research projects will start in January 2015. The research programme is […]
The International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy, ENERGIA, and the UK Department for International Development, DFID, signed an agreement to advance knowledge and awareness regarding the impact of energy access—or the lack thereof—on women and girls. The agreement encompasses research, evidence gathering and dissemination, and raising public awareness on the importance of energy access for […]
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