Publication date: March 2020
Author: ENERGIA
Description: In this ENERGIA News you will find evidence and highlights from the Gender and Energy Research programme, in which ENERGIA has worked, since 2014, with nine teams of researchers in 12 countries. This research programme has built an evidence base to support informed policy making to decrease gender inequalities in energy access and benefits of energy access. It has contributed to the development of an evidence base for improving energy investment effectiveness by understanding and better addressing women’s specific needs for modern energy services. The objective of the Programme has been to generate and analyse empirical evidence on the links between gender, energy and poverty, and to inform policy and practice. The research themes were developed based on identification of priority gaps in evidence in the following areas: impacts of electrification; productive uses of energy; political economy of gender in energy sector; energy sector reform; the role of the private sector in scaling up energy access; women’s energy entrepreneurship.
