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ENERGIA News Issue 2, April 1997

Bulletin Board

Coming Events

Workshop on Women and Sustainable Energy Networking in Africa
ENERGIA is currently planning a Workshop on Women and Sustainable Energy Networking in Africa, to be held in Africa in 1998.
As a decentralised network, a major strategy of ENERGIA is to encourage and support the development of regional networks on women and sustainable energy by regional organisations: Africa is a priority region. ENERGIA is in close contact with various initiatives indicating widespread interest in gender and energy in the region at present, e.g. Africa Energy Programme training workshops for women energy planners, Southern African Household Energy Network, ISES Women's Forum, etc. So development of a regional network seems timely.
In addition, ENERGIA has identified generally the lack of case studies on women and sustainable energy as an obstacle to better energy planning incorporating gender. The workshop could also generate such case studies, that can be disseminated in ENERGIA News. Another aim is to increase Southern participation in ENERGIA News through establishing relationships with partner organisations and Southern consulting editors.
The objectives of the workshop are:

• To catalyse the establishment of a network on women and sustainable energy in Africa, in keeping with ENERGIA's strategy of ‘regionalisation’.
• To generate case studies on women and sustainable energy in Africa, with a view to possible publication as a book and/or dissemination through ENERGIA News.
• To identify partner organisations and consulting editors as part of the ‘Southernisation’ of ENERGIA News.

About 20 participants will be drawn from (1) African energy networks interested in gender and (2) African programmes, field projects and action researchers who will present case studies on approaches to gender and energy. If you fit in one of these categories and are interested in participating in the workshop, please write to any member of the ENERGIA Editorial Board, explaining your interest or case study.

Gender perspectives in international meetings

If you are planning to attend one of the following international energy meetings and would like to contribute to a gender perspective at these meetings, please contact:

International Solar Energy Society (ISES) 1997 Solar World Congress, Taejon, Korea, 24-30 August, 1997
Contact: Alison Patterson, SunWorld, c/o Franklin Co. Consultants Ltd, 24 Shrigley Road, Killyleagh BT30 9SR, Northern Ireland; Tel. +44.1396.821149, fax +44.1396.828112, Email alison@tfc-kil.thegap.com, or Jenniy Gregory, ITPower, The Warren, Bramshill Road, Eversly, Hook RG27 0PR, U.K.; Tel. +44.118.9730073, Fax +44.118.9730820, Email itpower@itpower.co.uk

World Renewable Energy Congress (WREC)-V, Florence, Italy, 20-25 September, 1998
Contact: Judy Johnson, Commonwealth Science Council, Marlborough House, Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5HX, U.K.; Email JohnsonJ@comsec or Barbara Farhar, NREL, 409 12th Street SW, Suite 710, Washington, DC 20024, USA; Email farharb@tcplink.nrel.gov

If you would like to propose gender perspectives or organise workshops on women's issues at other international energy meetings that you will be attending, please contact ENERGIA directly and we will try to assist and put you in contact with others.

Second Announcement: ‘Technology and Development: Strategies for the integration of Gender’ Conference, Amsterdam, June 6 1997
At this conference, TOOL and TOOLConsult will present the results of the DGIS financed project “Gender, Technology and Economic Empowerment”. This project was designed to find ways to integrate gender issues in technical projects. Moreover, gender & technology experts from other organisations will be presenting their latest findings and instruments. Finally “lessons learned” from the preceding Expert Workshop will be shared at the conference.
Marilyn Carr (Senior Economic Advisor, UNIFEM) and Govind Kelkar (Head of Gender and Development Studies Centre, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand) will give key note presentations in the morning. In the afternoon, the strategies and instruments will be demonstrated in a participatory way in working groups. The fields of the working groups are:

• Gender, technology and Micro and Small Scale Enterprises
• Gender and Agricultural Technology
• Gender, Energy and Environment

For the conference programme, the application forms or more information you can contact: Saskia Everts, TOOLConsult, Sarphatistraat 650, 1018 AV Amsterdam, The Netherlands; tel. +31.20.6264409, fax +31.20.4211202, Email saskia.everts@tool.nl

Internet Resources

We are looking for Internet-literate volunteers who can help us search for material on women and energy.

A recent arrival on the Net is Women, Ink., a shopping source for women-and-development books. Here you can find a wide collection of books on women and development, ranging from Women's Human Rights to Environmental and Sustainable Development. The site also provides links to UNIFEM and IWTC (International Women's Tribune Center). Log on at: http://www.womenink.org