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ENERGIANet No.14 August 2005
The E-Newsletter of ENERGIA International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy
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- Events
- Projects/Programmes/Awards
- Publications/Proceedings
- Training
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News from ENERGIA
Meeting of the Collaborative Research Group on Gender and Energy, 17-20 April 2005, Kenya
The Collaborative Research Group on Gender and Energy held its second meeting on 17- 20 April 2005 in Nairobi, Kenya. The meeting was hosted by AFREPREN and attended by all members of the group. The objectives of the meeting were to: a) share ongoing research on gender and energy; b) identify and plan opportunities for dissemination and policy advocacy; and c) to continue to develop joint research partnerships and proposals.
The final report of the meeting will be available from the ENERGIA Secretariat by the end of August 2005.
World Renewable Energy Regional Congress (WRERC), 17-21 April 2005, Indonesia
Indira Shakya of GEWNET, Nepal, represented ENERGIA at WRERC 2005 and presented a paper, co-authored with Soma Dutta, RNC Asia, "Gender in Energy Policies and Programmes: Addressing the Missing Link".
A report on the event was written by Indira Shakya.
Asian Regional Workshop on Electricity and Development, 28-29 April 2005, Thailand
Sadeka Halim of the University of Dhaka represented ENERGIA at this workshop organised by UNEP, UNDP and IEA. She presented a paper, "Gender and Rural Electrification: a Case from Bangladesh", which analyses the impact of rural electrification on the changing socio-economic status of women in Bangladesh.
Monitoring and Evaluation for Energy and Development (M&EED) International Group Meeting, Frankfurt, Germany, 13-15 June 2005
Wendy Annecke from South Africa represented ENERGIA at this meeting, and was the only participant from and based in the South. 21 participants from northern-based organisations representing IT Power, GNESD, GTZ, EDF, GVEP, Senter Novem etc. were present. Wendy Annecke took the opportunity to present the need to collect M&E data disaggregated by gender and used examples from ENERGIA to support her arguments. In order to deliver the "Guidelines for developing M&E tools in energy access projects" by the end of the year, each organisation agreed to lead a sub-group, to synthesize experiences and develop a framework for sector M&E. Wendy will co-ordinate the sub-group on gender methodology and will prepare a framework that will be presented at the next meeting in September 2005 in London. To this end she will call on ENERGIA members to develop the framework and to comment on the draft.
Course in Renewable Energy at Makerere University, Uganda, August 2005
This 4-week course in renewable energy is a collaborative effort of the Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology (NTNU) and the Makerere University of Uganda. It will run for four weeks in summer 2005 with 20 students from Makerere and 12 from NTNU. The course is intended to give students an understanding of the energy situation in Uganda and to generate ideas on sustainable energy-system solutions for the country. "Gender perspectives on energy development" is a key theme of the course. The course will look at the current worldwide energy situation with special reference to Africa and more specifically to Uganda. It will examine energy issues related to development, traditional and modern energy systems in household and industry with emphasis on bioenergy, solar energy and small-scale micro-hydro energy. May Sengendo - ENERGIA RNC for Africa and lecturer at Makerere - will support the course and teach on gender and energy aspects.
For more information, please contact Åse Lekang Sørensen of NTNU
ENERGIA-UNDP collaboration 2005
Having successfully published the Gender and Energy Toolkit and Resource Guide in 2004, ENERGIA and UNDP have agreed on new goals for continued collaboration in 2005. Among the products aimed at for this year are: a) a power point presentation to facilitate the use of the Toolkit and Resource Guide b) a fact sheet and technical papers on gender and energy for use in advocacy. In addition, a funding proposal for gender and energy projects for the period 2006-2008 that builds on the achievements of both ENERGIA and UNDP will be developed. The ENERGIA Secretariat will coordinate and manage the execution of these activities.
Events
GVEP Partners Assembly, October 20-21, Brasilia, Brazil
This meeting will be held in conjunction with a one-day Brazil seminar on the Luz para Todos programme "Lights for All" on 19 October 2005 to which all GVEP Partners are invited. The Brazilian Minister of Mines and Energy is co-hosting the three-day event in conjunction with the GVEP Partner Board.
More information can be obtained from the GVEP Secretariat and on www.gvep.org
Gender Festival, 6-9 September 2005, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania
The theme of this year's Gender Festival is "Gender Democracy and Development: Popular Struggles for an Alternative and Better World". The event is organised by the Tanzania Gender and Networking Programme in collaboration with the Feminist Activism Coalition. The main objective of the event is to contribute to public debate on issues related to gender and social transformation around the main theme. It is a capacity building, skill building and networking forum for civil society and development actors within and outside Tanzania.
More details on papers, presentations and registration
Official languages of the festival will be English and Kiswahili.
The organisers can be contacted on info@tgnp.org
Projects/Programmes/Awards
Boiling Point Number 51 - Call for articles
Boiling Point is the journal of ITDG's energy programme. The next issue of the journal is on the theme "Sharing Information and Communicating Knowledge". How can people share what they know about household energy? What are the routes, both formal and informal, which can be supported and strengthened in order to allow knowledge to be shared more freely? Are there ways for distributing information on household energy that you have found successful - locally, nationally and internationally? What factors inhibit people sharing their knowledge? How can these barriers be overcome? If you have an interesting experience that you wish to share with others, then send an article by e-mail to the Boiling Point Editor. Articles should not be more than 1500 words.
Request for Information on Monitoring and Evaluation Methodologies
The M&E Group initiated 2 years ago by GVEP is in the process of developing a range of methodologies for monitoring and evaluating energy projects and is testing these methodologies in selected pilot projects. As a part of this work, GVEP is requesting for information on monitoring and evaluation methodologies used by its partners and interested parties in their projects/programmes for measuring impact and ensuring project sustainability. The Technical Secretariat will collate these experiences into a single source, helping to identify best practice, good case studies, and critical success factors. This source will then feed into the M&E Working Group, the outputs of which are supposed to increase the impacts of projects/programmes of GVEP partners and others.
Send your contribution to info@gvep.org
Women and Urban Sustainability (working title)- Call for Submissions
Women and Environments International Magazine is looking for submissions for its 30th Anniversary Issue focusing on urban sustainability from an international and feminist perspective. This issue will contribute to the World Urban Forum that marks the 30th anniversary of UN Habitat to be held in Vancouver in June 2006. The areas of interest include: gender mainstreaming at the municipal level (gender responsive budget initiatives, methods/tools/case studies for gender mainstreaming etc.); planning for inclusive cities (housing design for safety and mobility from women's perspectives, transportation, women-friendly cities etc.); urban sustainability with a gender-inclusive lens (women's health in toxic and built-up environments, time and mobility etc.)
Abstracts or expressions of interest in English should be forwarded to we.mag@utoronto.ca by 1st October 2005.
More information at: http://www.weimag.com/
Publications/Proceedings
Reducing Rural Poverty through Increased Access to Energy Services - A review of the Multifunctional Platform Project in Mali
Abeeku Brew-Hammond and Anna Crole-Rees, UNDP, Mali, 2004
This report reviews experiences of the multifunctional platform project in Mali and documents how modern energy services affect people's lives in terms of income, education, and rural women's status and health. In addition to showing on-the-ground evidence, this report presents analytical insights into key factors affecting the relationship between energy services and development outcomes. The study also assesses the relevance of the multifunctional platform concept to larger national/regional development policies and frameworks on energy for poverty reduction in Africa.
Available both in English and French at: http://www.undp.org/energy/reducmali.htm
The Faces of Energy-Related Poverty as Seen through the Eyes of Women and Men in Senegal
Fatma Denton and Emmanuel Seck, Enda Tiers Monde, Senegal, 2005
This booklet, accompanied by a CD-ROM, is a compilation of responses of rural women and men in rural communities in Senegal to four basic questions a) Who is considered poor? b) What are people's experience of energy poverty and under-development? c) How to move forward? and d) What kind of future for women and their children? These personal testimonies, supported by photographs, serves to illustrate the extent of energy poverty and its impact on the daily lives of rural people.
The publication is also available in French and can be downloaded from http://www.enda.sn/energie/biblio.htm
Communities on the Margins of Development - Real Life Stories of Gender, Energy and Poverty
Fatma Denton, Enda Tiers Monde, Senegal, 2005
Using the stories of women and men in thirteen villages in Senegal, this booklet looks at poverty and marginalisation. The stories convey two main concerns of the people - firstly food insecurity and water shortage, and secondly energy poverty. The stories talk about environmental degradation, poor health care, inadequate transport, restricted access to markets, low productivity - all of which are accentuated by energy poverty. The booklet also examines the coping strategies of communities and looks at how policy could support the solutions identified by communities. A gender perspective is maintained in all aspects dealt with in the book.
The booklet is accompanied by a CD-ROM and is available also in French from Enda at: http://www.enda.sn/energie/biblio.htm
Stove Producers assess their Impact - Methodology and Results of a ProBEC Participatory Impact Assessment
Verona Brinkmann and Agnes Klingshirn, ProBec-GTZ, South Africa, 2004
The Programme for Biomass Energy Conservation (ProBEC), implemented by GTZ in Southern Africa since 1988, aims at improving the living conditions of households and the efficiency of small scale industries through the introduction and further development of improved cooking technologies for efficient and sustainable use of biomass energy. Different types of stoves were developed in eight SADC countries according to cooking habits, existing technologies and resource availability. In 2004, stove producers and promoters from these countries carried out a self-assessment in preparation for a workshop on experience exchange. This report presents the approach, methodology and results of this self-assessment and can be read at: http://www.probec.org/docs/QuestionnaireAssessment.pdf
Smoke, Health and Household Energy
Volume 1: Participatory methods for design, installation, monitoring and assessment of smoke alleviation technologies
ITDG, 2005
This publication describes a research project undertaken by ITDG in three very different communities under a DFID (UK) research grant. The purpose of the project is to support large numbers of people living in poverty, especially women and children, to reduce the major health risks caused by smoke from kitchen fires, through awareness of the dangers of smoke and interventions to alleviate it. The project worked with communities in 3 countries - Kenya, Sudan and Nepal - to identify, install and monitor sustainable technologies to alleviate smoke. This led to very different solutions in each country. The project is now in a second phase and this publication tells the story so far.
It can be downloaded at: http://www.itdg.org/?id=smoke_health_household_energy
Energy for Sustainable Development Vol IX No.1
International Energy Initiative, March 2005
This issue of the ESD journal puts together several articles on stoves, kitchen smoke and health impacts. The article, "Gender analysis for energy programmes" by Margaret Skutsch reviews the standard gender tools used in development planning and comes up with suggestions for an improved model. The article "What should we be doing about kitchen smoke?" by Liz Bates and others is based on approaches adopted to study the reasons why initiatives to combat indoor air pollution and the related burden of ill health are few.
Read the journal at: http://www.ieiglobal.org/vol9_issue1.html
Gender and Climate Change - a Forgotten Issue
Ulrike Roehr, 2005
Tiempo Climate Newswatch is a weekly electronic newsletter covering climate and development. In a recent issue of the newsletter Ulrike Röhr discusses the historical lapse in assimilating gender issues in the climate change debate and the urgent need to undertake research and analysis on this issue.
Read the article at: http://www.tiempocyberclimate.org/newswatch/comment050711.htm
Women's Fund Raising Handbook
Global Fund for Women
This handbook draws on the expertise of Global Fund for Women staff and provides advice on raising money to fund women's rights work. It is especially designed for first-time fundraisers and for women's groups in developing countries. It helps organisations think through what the funding is for in order to establish a key 'message' for potential funders. It provides potential fundraising and gives tips on getting together a funding proposal.
The English version can be downloaded at: http://www.globalfundforwomen.org/4news/fundraising-handbook/2-handbook.html
The handbook is also available in Spanish and French.
Training
Poverty alleviation: integrating the gender and energy perspective (PAGEP), 10-14 October 2005
This 5-day training course is organised by Management Development Foundation (MDF) and ETC Foundation in the Netherlands. The course aims to increase participants' interest in addressing energy and gender issues in poverty alleviation efforts, to broaden knowledge and insight into the linkage between energy, poverty, and gender, and to increase skills in enabling the acceptance of this approach and perspective within their institutions.
Course information and preliminary registration can be done via: registration@mdf.nl
More on MDF courses can be found at: www.mdf.nl
News from Donors
Southeast Asia Urban Environmental Management Applications Project (SEA-UEMA)
The SEA-UEMA Project is a partnership between the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT). It seeks to contribute to the improvement of urban environmental conditions in Southeast Asia (SEA) through improved implementation and sharing of sound urban environmental management (UEM) policies and practices. The project will deal with the three key urban environmental sub-sectors (water and sanitation, solid waste, and air pollution) in the Southeast Asian region with poverty reduction and gender equality as crosscutting themes. For emphasising both UEM education and its application, the project has adopted a two-pronged funding approach: a) UEM graduate education b) UEM applications and networks. The project invites all potential partners (individuals and organisations) to join and expand this partnership.
Please contact Pritam Krishna Shreshtha, Project Manager for more details or visit the web site: http://www.sea-uema.ait.ac.th/index_more.htm
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