@article{Wooders2016,
title = {Gender and Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform: Current Status of Research},
author = {Peter Wooders and Laura Merrill and Christopher Beaton and Kieran Clarke and Lucy Kitson Shruti Sharma},
url = {http://www.iisd.org/sites/default/files/publications/gender-fossil-fuel-subsidy-reform-current-status-research.pdf},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-09-28},
abstract = {This research project aims to investigate the impacts from fossil fuel subsidy reform on poor women in Bangladesh, India and Nigeria. This initial scoping report finds no primary, quantitative research on the question of the gender-differentiated impact of fossil fuel subsidy reforms. However, there is a large body of literature linked to energy access and gender; growing research surrounding energy subsidies, access and impacts on the poor; growing research regarding solar energy and cook stoves and gender; and a body of research assessing targeted cash transfers (sometimes used as mitigation measures to energy sector reform) from a gender perspective.

The report explores the literature by first providing a global picture of energy subsidies, energy access and gender empowerment as background to the research. It then reviews the literature regarding access to energy and gender empowerment, fossil fuel subsidies and gender, subsidy reforms and gender, and mitigation measures such as cash transfers and targeted energy interventions. Finally, it provides an overview of energy subsidies and reform with implications for gender across this project’s three focus countries: Nigeria, India and Bangladesh.},
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@techreport{UniversityofTwente2016,
title = {Productive uses of energy: The informal food sector in South Africa, Rwanda and Senegal},
author = {Hans Bressers and Nthabiseng Mohlakoana and Margaret Matinga and Jiska de Groot and Bothwell Batidzirai and Abigail Knox and Yacine Diagne Gueye and Secou Sarr and Robert van der Plas},
url = {https://www.energia.org/cm2/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/RA2-ScopingPhase-18July2016.pdf},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-09-01},
abstract = {This report represents the Scoping Phase (Phase 1) of Research Area 2 - Productive uses of Energy - of ENERGIA's Gender and Energy Research Programme. This Research Area applies a gender perspective to explore: (i) the energy sources used by micro and small enterprises in the informal food sector; (ii) the changes that may be brought by use of modern energy services (MESs) both within the enterprise itself and at household level; and (iii) how energy changes in enterprises influence economic and social empowerment of both men and women.

Phase 1 of this research employed a mixed methods approach in Rwanda, Senegal and South Africa, involving: 1) a literature review covering energy, the informal food sector, gender, and relevant policies; 2) a questionnaire survey of enterprises in the informal food sector; and 3) in-depth interviews with enterprise owners or employees. The key findings of Phase 1 include:
- The literature review, which explored the energy and gender dimension of entrepreneurs in the informal food sector in the study sites and beyond, finding that despite the relatively high number of studies on the informal food sector and particularly on street there is hardly discussion on gendered energy use. In addition, survivalist versus growth-oriented approaches were identified as important concepts for exploring the informal food sector, entrepreneurship and empowerment.
- The questionnaire survey and in-depth interviews, which explored a range of questions regarding enterprises, their production, energy use, and empowerment, established that informal enterprises depend on a wide range energy sources, and are faced with accessibility, and affordability issues.
- The scoping research confirms that energy use at home does contribute to the enterprise in a number of ways – such as use of appliances that were originally intended for household use only.},
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