publication-type: Research
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Women’s empowerment and electricity access: How do grid and off-grid systems enhance or restrict gender equality?
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Renewable Energy: A Gender Perspective
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Briefing Paper 3 – Needs, wants and values: Integrating gender with energy access
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Pioneering Power: Transforming lives through off-grid renewable electricity in Africa and Asia
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Solar powered electricity access: Implications for women’s empowerment in rural Kenya
This paper examines the gendered implications of various types of electricity access in rural Kenya spanning from the central grid to solar-based systems such as community projects, village scale supply and private solar home systems (SHS). Drawing on material collected in Homa Bay and Kitui counties in 2016, the paper examines the gendered set-up, organisation…
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Increasing Access to Clean Lighting and Promoting Female Entrepreneurship in Rwanda
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Gender Perspective on Access to Energy in the EU
This study, commissioned by the European Parliament Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs, presents an overview of the situation within the EU with regard to the way energy poverty is experienced by women and men and explores through a gender lens existing EU legislation and policy to address energy poverty. Interpretation and implementation…
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Political Economy of Energy Policy in India: Electricity and LPG
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Women in power and utilities – Index 2016
EY’s Women in Power and Utilities Index analyzes the boards and leadership teams of the top 200 utilities by revenue across the globe. The Index provides a baseline for measuring how much — or how little — the sector progresses each year
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Energy and women and girls
Energy has undoubtedly become a significant part of the development agenda, a reality reflected in the many claims made by members of the development community about the importance of energy access for improving the lives of the poor, especially women and girls. This discourse includes an implicit assumption that, because of the burdens of energy…
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What works for gender equality and women’s empowerment – a review of practices and results – FINAL REPORT
The Independent Office of Evaluation of IFAD (IOE) has just released the evaluation synthesis “What works for gender equality and women’s empowerment – a review of practices and results”. The report intends to support learning on what practices work for gender equality and women’s empowerment (GEWE) and under what conditions in the context of rural…
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What works for gender equality and women’s empowerment – a review of practices and results – LEARNING BRIEF
The Independent Office of Evaluation of IFAD (IOE) has just released the evaluation synthesis “What works for gender equality and women’s empowerment – a review of practices and results”. The report intends to support learning on what practices work for gender equality and women’s empowerment (GEWE) and under what conditions in the context of rural…