Resource Guide

4.1   Gender and Energy Issues

General Background

IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development ), Asia and the Pacific Division. Gender Mainstreaming: IFAD’s Experience in the Asia and the Pacific Region and Lessons Learned (1999). Available online at www.ifad.org/gender/progress/pi.

Sida Europe, Analysing Gender (October 2003). Available online at http://www.sida.se/content/1/c6/02/16/04/Analysing%20Gender_sida2913.pdf.

Sida, “Energy Policy and Equality between Women and Men,” Sida Equality Prompt, No. 9 http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/40/3/1849338.pdf

UNDP, Gender in Development Programme, Gender Mainstreaming Learning Manual & Information Pack: Gender Analysis (2001). Available online at http://www.undp.org/gender/infopack.htm.

UNDP, Generating Opportunities: Case Studies on Energy and Women, Salome Misana and Gail Karlsson (eds.), 2001. Available online http://www.undp.org/energy/publications/2001/2001a.htm.

UNDP, World Energy Assessment: Energy and the Challenge of Sustainability, 2000, http://www.undp.org/seed/eap/activities/wea/drafts-frame.html.

UNDP, Sustainable Energy Strategies: Materials for Decision-Makers (2000); see especially chapter, “Gender and Energy: How is Gender Relevant to Sustainable Energy Policies?” Available online at http://www.undp.org/energy/publications/2000/2000a.htm.

Regional Perspectives

Branco, Adelia de Melo, Gender and Energy Issues in Latin America, Regional paper prepared for the World Summit on Sustainable Development, ENERGIA, August 2002. Available online at http://www.energia.org/pubs/papers/wssd_latinam_regpaper.pdf.

Makhabane, Tieho., et al., Gender and Sustainable Energy Issues in Africa: Perspectives for the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Regional paper prepared for the World Summit on Sustainable Development, ENERGIA, August 2002. Available online at http://www.energia.org/pubs/papers/wssd_africa_regpaper.pdf.

Parikh, Jyoti, Mainstreaming Gender and Energy in South Asia, Regional paper prepared for the World Summit on Sustainable Development., ENERGIA, August 2002. Available online at http://www.energia.org/pubs/papers/wssd_sasia_regpaper.pdf.

Polestico, Rachel, Gender and Energy in Southeast Asia, Regional paper prepared for the World Summit on Sustainable Development, ENERGIA, August 2002. Available online at http://www.energia.org/pubs/papers/wssd_sasia_regpaper.pdf.

Household Energy

Clancy, Joy S., “Household Energy Isn’t All about Stoves,” Boiling Point, No. 41, Intermediate Technology Publications (1998). Available online at http://www.itdg.org/?id=boiling_point.

Clancy, Joy S., “Blowing the Smoke Out of the Kitchen: Gender Issues in Household Energy” (2002). Available online at http://www.sparknet.info/goto.php/view/2/theme.htm.

Clancy, Joy S., “Gender and Household Energy: The International Context,” 2003. Available online at http://sparknet.info/goto.php/view/7/theme.htm.

Dutta, S., “Role of Women in Rural Energy programmes: Issues, Problems and Opportunities,” in ENERGIA News 1, No. 4 (October 1997). Available online at http://www.energia.org/resources/newsletter/enarchive.html.

Klingshirn, A., Integrating Household Energy into Rural Development Programmes (2000). Available online at http://www.energia.org/pubs/papers/klingshirnhep.pdf.

Laxmi, V., Parikh, J., Karmakar, S., and Dabrase, P. “Household Energy, Women’s Hardship and Health Impacts in Rural Rajasthan, India: Need for Sustainable Energy Solutions,” Energy for Sustainable Development VII , No. 1 (March 2003). Available online at http://www.ieiglobal.org/esd.html.

UNDP, Bioenergy Primer: Modernized Biomass Energy for Sustainable Development. Available online at http://www.undp.org/energy/publications/2000/2000b.htm.

Warwick, H., and Doig, A. “Smoke - the Killer in the Kitchen: Indoor Air Pollution in Developing Countries,” Report published by ITDG (2004). Available online at http://www.itdg.org/?id=smoke_index.

Wickramasinghe, A. “Gender and Health Issues in the Biomass Energy Cycle: Impediments to Sustainable Development,” in Energy for Sustainable Development VII, No. 3 (September 2003), pp 51-61. Available online at http://www.ieiglobal.org/esd.html.

World Bank, “Energy and Health for the Poor,” Indoor Air Pollution Newsletter, No. 3 (December 2000). Available online at http://lnweb18.worldbank.org/sar/sa.nsf/General/54F998E632F70B3685256DB70073A19A?OpenDocument.

Energy for Income Generation

Barua, D., “Energy’s Role in Rural Income Generation: The Grameen Strategy,” paper presented at Village Power ‘98: Scaling Up Electricity Access for Sustainable Rural Development, NREL/World Bank, Washington, DC, October 6-8, 1998. Can be obtained by contacting g_shakthi@grameen.net.

Rural Electrification

Cecelski, Elizabeth, “Enabling Equitable Access to Rural Electrification: Current Thinking and Major Activities in Energy, Poverty and Gender,” Update of a briefing paper prepared for a brainstorming meeting on Asia Alternative Energy Policy and Project Development Support (2002). Available online at http://www.energia.org/pubs/papers/2002update_cecelskiastae.pdf.

Skutsch, Margaret. M., “Why Special Attention to Gender in Electrification Programmes?” Background report submitted to Winrock International, Washington, D.C. (2001). Available online at http://www.energia.org/pubs/papers/skutsch_electrification.pdf.

Utonih, Selma-Penna and Sibusiso Dlamini, “Power Sector Reforms, Rural Electrification and Gender-Related Issues,” Paper developed for the Southern African Gender and Energy Network (2001). Available online at http://www.energia.org/pubs/papers/utonihdlamini.pdf.

Transportation

IFRTD (International Forum for Rural Transport and Development), “Case Studies on the Analysis of Women’s Transport Needs,” Paper prepared for the World Bank Gender and Transport Thematic Group. Available online at http://www.worldbank.org/gender/transport/Case_Studies/case_studies.htm.

Starkey, P., and Fernando, P., “Women, Transport Energy and Donkeys: Some Implications for Development Workers,” in ENERGIA News 2, Issue 2 (May 1998). Available online at http://www.energia.org/resources/newsletter/enarchive.html.

Wonfor, Cheri, “Women and Urban Transport: Improving Public Taxi Transport and Energy Efficiency in South Africa,” in ENERGIA News 2, Issue 3 (August 1998). Available online at http://www.energia.org/resources/newsletter/enarchive.html.

World Bank, “Developing Gender-Sensitive Monitoring and Evaluation Systems for Rural Travel and Transport Projects and Programs.” Available online at http://www.worldbank.org/gender/transport/Tools/Monitoring___Evaluation/monitoring_evaluation.htm.

Gender and Energy Capacity Building

Nixon, S.P., and Tutua, J., “Village Power in Solomon Islands,” in ENERGIA News 6, Issue 2 (January 2004). Available online at http://www.energia.org/resources/newsletter/enarchive.html.

Ward, Sarah, “Transforming the Energy Sector – Transforming Local Government: SEED’s Mission in South Africa, in ENERGIA News 6, Issue 1 (October 2003). Available online at http://www.energia.org/resources/newsletter/enarchive.html.

Financing and Credit

Bennet, L. and Goldberg M., “Providing Enterprise Development and Financial Services to Women: A Decade of Bank Experience in Asia,” World Bank Technical Paper no. 236. World Bank, Asia Technical Department Series, Washington, D.C. (1993). Available online at http://econpapers.hhs.se/paper/fthwobate/236.htm.

Ramani, K.V., “Energy as an Instrument of Women’s Economic Empowerment,” in ENERGIA News 4, Issue 1 (April 2002). Available online at http://www.energia.org/resources/newsletter/enarchive.html.

Integrating Gender and Energy into Policy

Cecelski, E., “From Rio to Beijing: Engendering the Energy Debate,” special issue paper in Energy Policy 23, Issue 6 (June 1995), pages 561-575.

Dutta, S., “Mainstreaming Gender in Energy Planning and Policies,” UNESCAP Project on Capacity Building on Integration of Energy and Rural Development Planning," Draft background paper prepared for the Expert Group Meeting hosted by UNESCAP/UNDP (2003). Available online http://www.unescap.org/esd/energy/cap_building/egm_integration/Presentations/S_Dutta.ppt.

Feenstra, M., “Engendering Energy Policy: A Case Study from Uganda and South Africa,” Master’s thesis study, University of Twente, the Netherlands, December 2002. Available online at http://www.generoyambiente.org/ES/articulos_estudios/docs/gender_energy.doc.

Karlsson, G., “Gender and Energy: How is Gender Relevant to Sustainable Energy Policies?” Published in UNDP, Sustainable Energy Strategies: Materials for Decision-Makers (2000). Available online at http://www.undp.org/energy/publications/2000/SEStrategy/chapter2.doc.

McDade, S., and Clancy J.S. (eds.), Editorial, Energy for Sustainable Development? VII, No. 3 (September 2003). Available online at http://www.ieiglobal.org/esd.html.

Parikh, J. K., “Gender Issues in Energy Policy,” in Energy Policy 23, No. 9 (1995), pp. 745-754.