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ENERGIANet No.15 December 2005
The E-Newsletter of ENERGIA International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy
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- Training
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News from ENERGIA
Asian Regional Network Meeting, 2- 5 May 2005, Chiang Mai, Thailand
The ENERGIA Asia Regional Network Meeting took place from 2-8 May 2005
in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The event was hosted by ARECOP (Asia Regional
Cook stove Programme) and was facilitated by Christina Aristanti Manager
of ARECOP. The meeting provided the national networks an opportunity to
meet each other and share experiences on gender and energy activities.
The meeting was also used to map-out an action plan for the Asian network.
Rupeni Mario of Fiji represented the Pacific Energy and Gender (PEG) Network
at the meeting, thus creating space for learning and sharing between regions.
Training Workshop in Gender and Energy, 6-8 May 2005, Chiang
Mai, Thailand
This 3-day training in gender and energy concepts was conducted back-to-back
with the Asia Regional Focal Point meeting in May this year. It is the
first in a series of training workshops envisaged by ENERGIA to build
the capacity of the national networks in Asia to incorporate gender into
energy policy and programmes.
Productive Uses of Renewable Energy, 9-11 May 2005, Bangkok,
Thailand
Soma Dutta, ENERGIA Regional network Coordinator for Asia, presented a
paper titled, “Women and productive uses of energy: some light on a shadowy
area” at this meeting organised by the UNDP regional office in Bangkok.
Read the paper at: http://www.energia.org/pubs/papers/dutta_clancy_productive_use.pdf
As an outcome to this meeting, UNDP invited ENERGIA to develop a project
on women and productive uses of energy. The concept submitted has been
well received by UNDP and hopefully will materialise as a project next
year. UNDP also invited ENERGIA to submit proposals for gender-sensitive
short-term pilot projects (to be completed within 2005). Of the seven
proposals submitted from the Asian network, the pilot project from Approtech
Asia has been short listed for support.
Expert Committee to Formulate Energy Policy, June 2005, New Delhi,
India
Integrated Research and Action for Development (IRADe), an ENERGIA partner
in India, organised a session on mainstreaming gender concerns in energy
policy at this meeting convened by the Planning Commission (Power and
Energy Division), Government of India. As a follow up to the meeting,
IRADe prepared a policy paper, which will serve as an important input
into gender and energy advocacy initiatives in the future.
Meeting the Needs of the Urban Poor – the Case of Electrification,
12-14 September 2005, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil
Wendy Annecke, member of the South Africa Gender and Energy Network and
technical advisor to ENERGIA, attended the workshop and presented a paper
on gender issues in the session on socio-economic aspects of urban electrification.
ESMAP, USAID, Cities Alliance, IDB, Electricite de France, and Coelba
(a Brazilian utility) sponsored the meeting. The findings of several urban
energy studies were brought together at this meeting, which provided a
forum for stakeholders to exchange experiences, information, and innovative
ways to meet the demand for urban electrification among poor communities.
A detailed report on the event by Wendy Annecke is available at: http://www.energia.org/resources/reports/2005_needsoftheurbanpoor_salvador_report.pdf
and her presentation titled, “Socio-economic conditions in low electrification
areas” at: http://www.energia.org/resources/reports/2005_needsoftheurbanpoor_salvador_slides.pdf
Monitoring and Evaluation for Energy and Development (M&EED)
International Group Meeting, September 2005, London, UK
This meeting of the M&EED group was hosted by DFID and held in London
and was a follow up to the meeting held in Frankurt in June 2005. Wendy
Annecke from South Africa represented ENERGIA at this meeting. The draft
template for monitoring and evaluation developed by the group was discussed
extensively. Wendy brought in the gender aspects into the discussion,
emphasising the need for gender to be incorporated into the design, and
thereby also the M&E of all energy projects. The next meeting of the
group is scheduled for January 2006 for which Wendy Annecke will work
on incorporating gender aspects into the M&E template.
Workshop on Gender Mainstreaming in Water and Energy Initiatives,
September 2005, Nepal
The Gender, Energy and Water Network (GEWNet) Nepal, supported by the
Centre for Rural Technology Nepal (National Focal Point) and ENERGIA,
organised this two-day workshop in September 2005. The workshop consisted
of two components: sharing experiences of gender mainstreaming in water
and energy projects and programmes on the first day and a training session
on gender auditing on the second day. With the Government of Nepal announcing
the initiation of gender auditing in the National Budget for the fiscal
year 2005, increasing stakeholder awareness on the subject of gender auditing
is a very timely step taken by the network. More than 40 participants
from a variety of organisations including the government, non-government
and private sectors attended the meeting. The workshop report will be
posted shortly on the ENERGIA website.
GVEP Partners Assembly, 20-21 October, Brasilia, Brazil
ENERGIA in collaboration with the GVEP Technical Secretariat organised
the "Gender, Energy and Microfinance" side event on 18 October
2005 at the Global Village Energy Partnership (GVEP) Partners Assembly
in Brasilia, Brazil. The event presented examples of how modern energy
services, through micro financing directed at poor women, creates employment
and productive activities, provides lighting and power for rural and peri-urban
communities, and improves the status of women. Experiences of SEWA/SELCO
and GVEP in India, FINCA in Uganda, KITE in Ghana, and NEAP in Cameroon
were shared. More information can be found at: http://www.gvep.org/content/article/detail/11181
Update on TIE ENERGIA Project
Several activities of the TIE ENERGIA project have been undertaken since
the Inception Workshop in April 2005. Two of the five training packages,
namely “Concepts of Gender in Energy” and “Gender Tools for Energy Projects”,
have been translated into French for use in francophone Africa. The first
of three sub-regional training of trainers workshops was held in Nairobi,
Kenya, in November 2005. The TIE-ENERGIA web site - http://energia-africa.org
- was launched and will carry regular postings on the project’s progress
and other related information. Grant Ballard-Tremeer of Eco presented
the project at the European Commission’s IEE information sharing day in
Brussels, Belgium, 7 October 2005. Have a look at the presentation at:
http://energia-africa.org/docs/TIE-ENERGIASummary.pdf
Review Meeting of the CRGGE
Within the context of the ENERGIA/DFID KaR project on “Gender as a Key
Variable in Energy Interventions”, the Collaborative Research Group on
Gender and Energy (CRGGE) held its second review meeting from 17-20 May
2005, in Nairobi, Kenya. The meeting was hosted by AFREPREN, a member
of the CRGGE. The meeting focused on the following: presentation and discussion
of the case studies being developed by the CRGGE and the preliminary results
of the empirical review; synthesis of the research in terms of methodology,
findings and lessons; ways to disseminate the findings of the research
to influence policy; future research collaboration. The results will be
posted on the ENERGIA web site on completion of the project this month.
The main findings will also be disseminated through the ENERGIA News to
be published later this month.
Research Paper from ENERGIA/DFID Project
“Energy, Development and Gender: Global Correlations and Causality” is
one of a series of research papers being published under the above-mentioned
ENERGIA/DFID KaR project. Elizabeth Cecelski, Principal Investigator,
has prepared this paper, which explores global statistical studies and
their evidence on correlation and causality in the linkages among energy,
development and gender. It attempts to make a Gender-Energy-Poverty (GEP)
Index based on the data available for 57 countries. The paper concludes
with suggestions on how to ensure a gender perspective in future statistical
studies on energy access and development indicators. Read the paper at:
http://www.energia.org/resources/reports/2005_cecelski_correlation_and_causality.pdf
Seed Funding for National Networking in Asia
ENERGIA has approved seed funding to its focal points in the Philippines,
Pakistan and Lao PDR. Approtech Asia in the Philippines will undertake
activities to strengthen the national network ENGENDER such as training
on gender tools and methodologies for partner organisations, documentation
of best practices, developing of resource material on gender and energy,
and regular meetings of the network. GRID in Lao PDR will adapt gender
tools and methodologies to the national context, translate gender and
energy material into Lao for use in training among network members, convene
a meeting with key government agencies on gender and energy issues. Among
the activities envisaged by AKRSP are a membership drive and formalising
of the network, preparation of a technical report on gender and energy
in Pakistan and dissemination of the findings, and undertaking of a dialogue
with policy makers and private-sector energy providers through information
sharing and networking activities.
Inventory of Organisations in Gender, Energy and Water in Nepal
GEWNet (Gender, Energy and Water Network, Nepal) has published an updated
inventory of organisations in gender, energy and water in Nepal. This
activity was supported by ENERGIA in building the capacity of the Asia
network. The inventory provides details of 24 organisations, including
a short organisational scan, areas of operation and projects/programmes
related to gender, energy and water, publications and contact details.
For a copy of the inventory, contact Centre for Rural Technology Nepal
at gewnet@crtnepal.org or info@crtnepal.org
Training Packages in Gender and Energy On-line
Two training packages – Concepts in Gender and Energy and Gender Tools
for Energy Planning - are now accessible on ENERGIA’s website at: http://www.energia.org/resources/training_packs.html
both in English and French. These form part of a series of five training
packages being developed by ENERGIA. The training packages are very extensive
and can be used and adapted for training of practitioners, planners and
policy makers involved in energy, poverty and development issues. If you
happen to use this material in your work, then please send your feedback
and comments to energia@etcnl.nl
so that ENERGIA can continue to improve the packages to meet the needs
of users.
Resources from the Pacific Gender and Energy Group
The Pacific Gender and Energy Group have recently developed several gender
and energy resources, which are now on-line. The Pacific Gender and Energy
Bibliography was supported by ENERGIA and has over 125 publications from
the region. It can be accessed at: http://www.sopac.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Pacific+Energy+and+Gender+Annotated+Bibliography
Printed copies of the bibliography can be obtained from Yogita Chandra
at the PEG Secretariat yogita@sopac.org
A flyer and a poster that can be used for awareness raising can be downloaded
from: http://www.sopac.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=PEG+Awareness+Raising+Materials
Events
ETHOS 2006, 28-29 January 2006, Kirkland, Washington, USA
The 2006 ETHOS Conference aims to expand its reach from previous annual
meetings, encouraging participation of Southern partners, international
stoves experts, and development specialists with field experience in the
transfer of cooking technologies. Registration is now open and can be
done on-line at http://www.vrac.iastate.edu/ethos/registration.php.
Abstracts for papers, talks and workshops are now being accepted and can
be submitted to Belinda Hegelheimer at bellinda@iastate.edu
Deadline for abstracts is 1 January 2006. The conference themes and other
information can be found at: http://www.vrac.iastate.edu/ethos/conference.php
World Bank Group Energy Week, 6-8 March 2006, Washington D.C.,
USA
The World Bank Group's Energy Week 2006 will be held in Washington D.C.
on March 6-8, 2006 and bring together policy makers and practitioners
engaged in strategic issues of energy and development. Energy Week 2006
will comprise of a three-day executive conference at which senior-level
energy and finance industry executives, senior donor and developing country
government officials, stakeholders and leading-edge thinkers will offer
new ideas and insights on issues of clean energy development.
Energy Week 2006 is also an information sharing event on the lessons of
experience from energy projects and programmes in developing countries
and it provides an opportunity for World Bank Group staff, developing
country practitioners and partners to network and share their operational
experience
and enhance their cutting-edge knowledge and skills. Participation is
by application and invitation. For further information, please visit http://www.worldbank.org/energyweek/
World Renewable Energy Congress (WREC) IX, 19-25 August 2006,
Florence, Italy
WREC IX is being organised by the World Renewable Energy Congress, UK,
and hosted by the University of Florence, Italy. The WREC is a major forum
that brings together those who represent the supply, distribution, consumption
and development of energy sources that are benign, accessible, sustainable
and economically viable. Energy, Poverty Reduction and Gender features
as a theme of the congress in which gender and sustainable energy in Latin
America, in developing countries, and in the North are topics. The call
for papers is open and abstracts not exceeding 200 words prepared according
to the instructions provided can be submitted before 8 February 2006.
More details and instructions for submitting abstracts are available at:
http://www.wrenuk.co.uk/wrecix.html#papers
Conference of International Association Impact Assessment (IAIA)2006
The 26th conference of IAIA will take place in Stavanger, Norway, from
23-26 May 2006. The theme of the conference is “Power, Poverty and Sustainability
– The Role of Impact Assessments”. Gender and energy is on the agenda
of this conference with a panel titled, “Bottlenecks to Sustainable Development:
Assessing the Gender-Energy Link on the Ground”. This panel is proposed
to present methods for analysing energy and its impacts through a gender
lens. It will explore the challenges scientists’ face, methodologies that
can help disaggregate impacts on men versus women, and difficulties analysts
face in incorporating disaggregated energy impacts into useful policy
recommendations. Panellists are expected to discuss what field-based methods
they have used to address the gender-energy link in practical, real-world
assessments, and present recommendations for incorporating a gender analysis
into social and environmental assessments in the developed and the developing
world. If you wish to share your experience on this topic as a panellist,
then please contact Barbara Bamberger at: bambergerb@edaw.com
Projects/Programmes/Awards
Launch of Rice Husk Gasifier
Approtech Asia and Appropriate Technology Centre, Central Philippine University
have launched a two-burner rice husk gas stove invented by the centre
as part of its rice husk gasification project. The stove is ready for
commercialisation as a substitute or replacement for LPG in rice-producing
areas, thus reducing costs. The stove is suitable for both domestic and
institutional use. Interested parties may contact the Project Director,
Appropriate Technology Centre on atbelonio@yahoo.com
or Approtech Asia on info@approtech.org
Book Reviewers for “Gender and Development”
“Gender and Development” is an activist-oriented journal, which aims to
promote, inspire, and support development policy and practice, which furthers
the goal of equality between women and men. It is read in over 90 countries.
From 2006 onwards, the journal will feature reviews of the latest books
of interest to development policymakers, researchers, feminist activists
and students of gender and development. If you are involved in the field
of gender and development and are interested in reviewing books, please
contact Kanika Lang, Book Reviews Editor at klang@oxfam.org.uk
No payment is offered, but reviewers will receive a complimentary copy
of the journal in which their review appears. Support is offered to first-time
writers.
Call for Submissions – Women’s Policy Journal of Harvard
The ”Women’s Policy Journal of Harvard” is accepting submissions is a
non-partisan review dedicated to publishing interdisciplinary work on
policy making and politics affecting women. For its Summer 2006 issue,
the journal is seeking papers that explore the impact public policies
have on women both in the US and around the world, and provide new insight
into issues affecting diverse groups of women. Articles and commentaries
can either offer a gendered or a woman’s perspective on pressing political,
social and economic policy issues, or investigate the role of women in
the policymaking sphere. Energy and environmental policy is included in
the list of topics. Deadline for submissions is 15 January 2006. Guidelines
for submissions available at: http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/wpjh/2006%20call.html
Publications/Proceedings
How to Engender Energy Policy
Joy Clancy and Marielle Feenstra, January 2005
This paper sets out the main reasons for gender blindness in energy policy
and suggests gender mainstreaming as a means of creating gender-sensitive
energy policy. It examines the process of government policy-making and
implementation in general, and looks at ways of influencing policy. The
paper defines the elements of a gender-aware energy policy and describes
the process of developing and implementing such a policy, emphasizing
the enabling conditions that need to be fulfilled. It also looks at the
factors that motivate stakeholders to genderise energy policy. Read the
full paper at: http://www.energia.org/home/publications_clancy&feenstra_engender_energy_policy.pdf
Energy, Women and Rural Poverty: a Review Focusing on Latin America
Amitav Rath, May 2005
This review on rural poverty, energy and gender with a focus on Latin
America provides insights to a larger project being undertaken by the
University of Calgary and the Latin American Energy Organization (OLADE),
supported by the Canadian International Development Agency. A key objective
of this project is to develop energy policy guidelines and strategies
for rural energy development, incorporating social and gender issues.
The report is based largely on reviews of published materials and a small
number of consultations. It summarises the issues related to rural poverty,
gender and energy that have been identified globally, while orienting
these to the Latin American countries, and develops a relatively robust
set of conclusions and policy directions. The report underscores the lack
of literature in the region on the intersection of rural poverty, energy
and gender, an indicator that much work remains to be done. Read the report
at:
http://www.energia.org/home/publications_050921_amitav.pdf
Energy and Poverty: Myths, Links and Policy Issues
Jamal Saghir, World Bank, 2005
Focusing on the challenge of bringing modern energy services to the poor,
the author examines the link of energy to poverty within the context of
the myths that abound around energy and poverty. He points out the gaps
in access and stresses the need to focus on energy policies for poverty
reduction. He looks at several energy policies that have been effective
in addressing this challenge and concludes with the role of the World
Bank in this regard. This document published under the series Energy Working
Notes can be read at: http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTENERGY/Resources/EnergyWorkingNotes_4.pdf
Energizing the Millennium Development Goals: A Guide to Energy's
Role in Reducing Poverty
UNDP, August 2005
While there is no Millennium Development Goal (MDG) specifically on energy,
access to energy services is a prerequisite for achieving all eight MDGs.
If approached as an integrated part of MDG strategies, it can be an important
instrument in helping promote economic growth, social equality, and environmental
sustainability. This booklet is intended as a guide to development practitioners
and addresses some of the most pertinent issues regarding development
and energy. It provides suggestions and examples on how to address energy
within broader efforts to reach the MDGs highlighting also gender and
energy issues and examples. The document can be found at: http://www.undp.org/energy/docs2/ENRG-MDG_Guide_all.pdf
Renewing Lives with Renewable Energy - Clean Energy Business
Models for Indian Villages
Winrock International India, 2005
This booklet covers some successes of the Commercialising Renewable Energy
in India (CREI) project supported by the United Nations Foundation and
implemented by Winrock International India, Winrock International and
the United Nations Department of Social and Economic Affairs (UNDESA).
CREI is an innovative project that focuses on providing reliable and viable
energy services through renewable energy (RE) technologies. It identifies
RE services that generate income and increase the buying power of communities,
thus enabling RE markets to develop. A major outcome of the project, as
described in the cases, is the development of rural enterprises out of
such institutions such as women's self help groups, livelihood and thrift
committees. Implemented in two districts of Andra Pradesh in India, the
business models developed have the potential for replication within the
state and the country. Read the booklet at: http://www.winrockindia.org/doc/CREI_Booklet.pdf
Eye and Respiratory Symptoms among Women Exposed to Wood Smoke
Emitted from Indoor Cooking: a Study from Southern Pakistan
Siddiqui Rehana Amna, Lee, K., Gold E.B., and Bhutta Z.A. , Energy
for Sustainable Development Vol IX No.3, September 2005
Prolonged exposure to wood smoke, by using wood as a cooking fuel on a
daily basis has been associated with increased occurrence of respiratory
and other ailments. Accumulated data from developing countries have linked
acute and chronic eye and respiratory conditions to indoor air pollution
exposures. The study compares self-reported eye and respiratory symptoms
among women who use wood as a fuel to those who use natural gas (NG) in
a semi-rural setting from southern Pakistan. The article is available
at: http://www.ieiglobal.org/ESDVol9No3%5Cwoodsmokepakistan.pdf
News from Donors
GAPFund (GVEP Action Fund)
In order to aid the activities that serve to achieve GVEP goals and objectives,
a GVEP Action Programs Fund (GAPFund) has been set up through a contract
of the ESMAP of the World Bank. The initial phase of the GAPFund will
be for 18 months with a funding of $1.35m. Winrock International (WI),
a US-based non-profit organisation, will manage the GAPFund. The fund
is meant to assist projects that contribute to the country actions initiated
by GVEP in several countries either through specific country actions including
implementation of innovative pilot investment projects, policy development
and institutional renewal, or in the four support service areas of Capacity
Development, Finance Facilitation, Knowledge Management and Results Monitoring
and Evaluation. Although the funding size will vary, the majority of projects
considered will be in the US $10,000-50,000 budget range. Project duration
should be 3 to 12 months, based on the nature of the activities proposed.
The fund is now open and the full request for proposals can be downloaded
together with the application form at: http://www.gvep.org/content/general/detail/11409
Intelligent Energy Europe - COOPENER - Call for Proposals 2005
Intelligent Energy Europe is a programme of the European Union for the
promotion of energy efficiency and renewables. The call for proposals
for 2005 under the COOPENER line of funding allows for energy projects
in the developing countries. A total budget of 5 million euros is available
on this call. Successful projects can expect to have 50% of the totals
costs funded. Funding is available for activities in a) energy policies,
legislation and market conditions for alleviating poverty in developing
countries and b) strengthening local energy expertise in developing countries.
This is the last call for COOPENER projects under this programme. The
closing date for the receipt of proposals is 28 February 2006. Details
on the call can be found at:
http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/energy/intelligent/call_for_proposals/doc/call_2005/call_2005_en.pdf
REEEP Fourth Programme Round – Call for Proposals
The Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) is calling
for proposals in its fourth round of funding. Proposals will be considered
from organisations, including REEEP partners, active in policy and in
the financing of renewable energy and energy efficiency. REEEP expects
to deploy over €3 million to support projects identified under this round
with funding from the UK government. REEEP will fund projects from around
the world, however priority countries for this funding round include Angola,
Brazil, China, India, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Nigeria, Russia and South Africa.
Project application documents can be downloaded at: http://www.reeep.org/trampoline/groups?groupType=node.funding
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