Concepts and Issues in Gender and Energy
The paper identifies some key issues of how energy plays a role in transforming women’s lives.
Geothermal Energy, Climate Change, and Gender in Kenya
The paper aims to discuss in general the role geothermal energy should play in mitigation and adaptation to climate change in Kenya and how its utilization can meet different gender economic requirements at the micro-level.
Time allocation to energy resource collection in rural Ethiopia: Gender-Disaggregated Household Responses to Changes in Firewood Availability
This paper presents evidence on rural Ethiopian households’ time allocation to different activities, especially fuel collection work.
Peru: Supporting Women’s Participation in Community Governance to Strengthen Women’s Rights to Community Land in the Sierra
This case study identifies good practices and lessons learned about enhancing women’s participation in community land governance in rural Peru’s Puno and Ayacucho regions of the Andean Highlands.
Ghana: Gender and the Land Access and Tenure Security Project
This case study identifies good practices and lessons learned about including gender in a project designed to sensitize communities about the importance of securing land rights, build capacity of customary land secretariats, and provide alternative dispute resolution training to traditional authorities in the Northern Region of Ghana.
Gender and Collectively Held Land: Good Practices and Lessons Learned from Six Global Case Studies
Many studies have shown the benefits to women of secure rights to land: when their rights are secure, their status in the community and within the household can increase, their income can increase, and they and their families are less likely to be underweight or malnourished. It is crucial, therefore, that women be consulted and empowered in order to ensure that they benefit from collective land tenure reforms.
Power, Gender and Fossil-Fuel Subsidy Reform in India
Power and energy in India have both everything and nothing to do with women. Fossil-fuel subsidies might appear to have even less to do with women and gender relations. Yet their reform could have negative impacts, while at the same time representing an opportunity for women and Indians’ access to modern forms of energy. This […]