publication-type: Case study/Fact-sheet
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Energy and Gender in Asia: A regional review
The ongoing global energy transition towards a low carbon and sustainable future has the potential to bring far-reaching and systematic changes to our societies. This transition offers several opportunities for greater social justice and gender equality and is likely to create pathways to improve women’s quality of life. While making inroads into entrenched social structures,…
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Energy Access and Gender in Ghana: Policy Brief
In the wider West African region, Ghana is often seen as an energy success story with over 80% of the population having access to grid electricity. Yet, 50% of rural areas live without this access while ‘dumsor’ (load shedding) poses an ongoing challenge for those connected. In terms of gender equity, national energy policy recognises…
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Fact Sheet: Rural agribusiness opportunities
Productive use of energy solutions leveraging decentralized renewable energy show promising potential for smallholder farmers to increase yield, however, DREs require different deployment strategies. India’s solar water pump experience provides valuable insights for other emerging technologies. DRE-powered agricultural applications such as solar irrigation, solar salt farming, solar cold storage, solar drying and solar incubation can…
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Gender, Energy Technology and Climate Change
This factsheet, jointly produced by the Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) and ENERGIA – the International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy, highlights some of the key gender and energy technology issues related to climate change. The emphasis is on the needs of women in developing countries – many of whom are already dealing…
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Mainstreaming Gender in Energy Projects: A Practical Handbook
This Handbook on mainstreaming gender in energy projects seeks to provide guidance, practical tools and examples for energy projects that show how to undertake gender mainstreaming systematically. TheHandbook is a product of an ENERGIA initiative on Gender in Energy Projects and is based on ENERGIA’s work on gender mainstreaming since the 1990s, including gender and…
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Mainstreaming Gender in Energy Projects: Resource Pack
The Resource Pack is an accompanying document for the Mainstreaming Gender in Energy Projects: A Practical Handbook, developed by ENERGIA. The Resource Pack on mainstreaming gender in energy projects provides practical tools and examples for energy projects that show how to undertake gender mainstreaming systematically. It contains various resources that can be used to mainstream…
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Creating Conditions for Gender Equity in Rural Energy Projects: Experience in Productive Uses of Renewable Energy in Guatemala
initiative. “Creating Conditions for Gender Equity in Rural Energy Projects: Experience in Productive Uses of Renewable Energy in Guatemala” has been undertaken by Fundación Solar (Solar Foundation), a private development organization established in Guatemala in 1993. This case study documents the ways in which an energy project, in this case for climate change mitigation, can…
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Creating Conditions for Gender Equity in Rural Electrification Projects: Experiences from the Nicaraguan Electrification Project (PELNICA)
“Creating Conditions for Gender Equity in Rural Energy Projects: Experience in the Nicaraguan Electrification Project, PELNICA” highlights the results for gender equality obtained through the PELNICA initiative, and shares some reflections on how this six-year process has been able to influence the design and implementation of other similar projects in Nicaragua, as well as expand…
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Experience in Gender Inclusion in the Implementation of the Batzchocolá Community Micro Hydroelectric Plant in Nebaj, Quiché, Guatemala
“Experience in Gender Inclusion in the Implementation of the Batzchocolá Community Micro Hydroelectric Plant in Nebaj, Quiché, Guatemala” highlights the results in terms of gender equality obtained by Semilla de Sol and the Hydroelectric Association for the Integral Development of Northern Quiche (ASHDINQUI), a non-profit social and community venture that began with the construction of…
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Healthy Stoves in Rural and Urban Homes and Family Businesses in Nicaragua: Asociación Fénix Programme for Improved Stoves
“Healthy stoves in rural homes and family businesses in Nicaragua” shows the results in terms of gender equality obtained by Asociación Fénix, a Nicaraguan non-governmental and non-profit organisation established in 2001 that works to promote renewable energy sources and responsible use of natural resources to reduce climate change. This study describes the process of a…
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Boiling Point Issue 66: Women, Energy and Economic Empowerment
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Gender audits: An approach to engendering energy policy in Nepal, Kenya and Senegal