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The Gender Face of Energy – Module 2. Gender Tools for Energy Projects
Training manual to increase understanding of gender aspects of energy use and planning. MODULE 2 GENDER TOOLSIn order to plan in a gender sensitive way it is necessary to use a variety of analytic procedures that ensure the gender elements are not forgotten. This module presents some tools which help to plan a gender sensitive…
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The Gender Face of Energy – Module 3. Engendering Energy Policy
Training manual to increase understanding of gender aspects of energy use and planning. MODULE 3 ENGENDERING ENERGY POLICYGender and energy are a relatively new area of international sustainable development activities. Awareness about gender issues in energy policy is beginning to emerge with ground breaking attemptsto engender energy policy in South Africa and Uganda. In part,…
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The Gender Face of Energy – Module 4. Gender and Energy Advocacy
Training manual to increase understanding of gender aspects of energy use and planning. MODULE 4: GENDER AND ENERGY ADVOCACYGender and energy is a relatively new field in sustainable development policy. Sometimes policymakers are not even aware that gender issues play a role in energy policy, or that energy has the power to shape women’s and…
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The Gender Face of Energy – Module 1. Concepts in Gender and Energy
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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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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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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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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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Energy, Gender and Poverty Reduction
Mieko begins with the following notion – that no country large or small can succeed in eradicating poverty, unless her citizens (especially women and children) are healthy and educated. The development challenge we confront today lies not in what we do, but in how we think about what we do. For many, the word energy…