GGCA Gender and Climate Change Training Manual - Women's ...

3. Energy and gender
Reference
Description
Annecke, W. (2002). Climate change, energyrelated
activities and the likely social impacts
on women in Africa. In: International Journal
of Global Environmental Issues (IJGENVI),
Vol. 2, No. 3-4. Retrieved from the World
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com/search/index.php?action=record&
rec_id=2400&prevQuery=&ps=10&m=or
Seeks to establish links between climate change, energy use, gender relations
and subsequent impacts on the daily life of women in Africa. There is a broad
approach in an attempt to provide a perspective of the complexity of the
factors considered in the analysis. Stress is placed on the difference between
how energy is used in developed and developing countries and by men and
women; the impact energy use has on climate change is explored. The most
vulnerable energy sub-sector is the biomass used by the largest consumer
group: poor women.
Brew-Hammond, A. and Crole-Rees, A. (2004).
Reducing Rural Poverty Through Increased
Access to Energy Services: A Review of the
Multi-functional Platform Project in Mali.
Retrieved from the World Wide Web from: http://
www.energyandenvironment.undp.org/undp/
index.cfm?module=Library&page=Document&
DocumentID=5110
Reviews the experience of a multi-functional project in Mali. Analyzes
documents on how modern energy services affect the lives of rural women
in terms of income, education and social condition, as well as their health.
It also makes analytical observations about important factors that affect
relations between energy services and development results. It diagnoses the
importance of the multi-functional concept for broader national and regional
policies – within the framework of how development and energy can reduce
poverty in Africa.
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Ebrahimian, E. (2003). Community Action to
Address Climate Change: Case Studies Linking
Sustainable Energy Use with Improved
Livelihoods. GEF-UNDP Small Grants
Programme (SGP). Retrieved from the World
Wide Web from: http://sgp.undp.org/download/
SGPCaseStudiesBook.complete.pdf
GEF-UNDP SGP. (2005). Solar Energy Power
for Socio-Economic Advancement of Women
in Selected Communities in the Northern
Region. Ghana. Retrieved from the World Wide
Web from: http://sgp.undp.org/index.cfm?
Module=Projects&Page=ShowProject&ProjectI
D=7466
This publication summarizes the key information about energy projects and
climate change supported by the GEF Small Grants Programme between
1992 and 2003.
The project introduces solar electricity in the region, giving rural women an
alternative energy source to develop economic activities. Some women were
trained in building and using solar driers to process shea butter. Solar energy
was also used to establish a rural information centre where women, boys and
girls attended literacy night classes.
GEF-UNDP SGP. (2005). Estación microhidroeléctrica
para el procesamiento de fibra
natural (lanas) en Agua Blanca, Bolivia (Microhydroelectric
station to process natural fibre
(wool) in Agua Blanca, Bolivia). Retrieved from
the World Wide Web from: http://sgp.undp.org/
index.cfm?Module=Projects&Page=ShowProjec
t&ProjectID=7229
The project’s objective was to provide energy to the Agua Blanca community
by building a hydroelectric generating station. The energy produced was
used to process alpaca wool for production, and to operate drying machines,
dyeing centrifuges and textile machines, The project helped a group of
women with their activities by giving them equipment and better production
conditions, allowing them to invest more time in their work and to set up a
community micro-enterprise. The micro-enterprise allows them to earn more
so as to improve living conditions for their families.
GEF-UNDP SGP. (2005). Scaling Up Animal
Husbandry Practices as Sustainable
Livelihoods, Empowering Women through
Credit, Self-Help and Alternative Fuels/
Energy Sources. India. Retrieved from the World
Wide Web from: http://sgp.undp.org/index.
cfm?Module=Projects&Page=ShowProject&
ProjectID=9240
The project’s main objective was to promote biogas as an alternative fuel for
domestic use, and reduce pressure on forests as well as carbon emissions.
It was directly focussed on women, given that they traditionally work in the
kitchen and use firewood to cook. Biogas plants were built and they are now
administered by women and men. By using less firewood for fuel, the project
helped to conserve biodiversity and reduce deforestation. It also helped
groups of rural women to improve their earnings by raising animals.