This publication identifies gender-responsive strategies in the renewable energy sector and supports the formulation and implementation of policies in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) renewable energy sector that are informed and strengthened by the provision of reliable analysi
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Source: The Southern African Research and Documentation Centre (SARDC)
Date: August 2016
This brief reviews the role of women in the formal energy sector. It presents evidence that women’s equal participation in the sector will result in measurable benefits, including increased returns on investments and stronger development outcomes.
Source: United States Agency for International Development (USAID), International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
This guide was developed to support energy regulators in low- and middle-income countries in promoting gender equality. The document focuses on the inclusion of women in multiple facets of energy regulation, including employment, energy regulatory policy and energy infrastructure projects.
Source: National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners
Date: June 2018
This website contains information on more than 800 clean energy policies around the world. It is searchable by policy name, geography, mechanism and status with subsector impacts noted per policy.
Source: Climatescope
Date: January 2018
This report examines the feasibility and implementation of Burkina Faso's electrification program to boost countrywide network coverage, improve network-operating conditions, and increase the number of localities and households with access to electricity.
Source: African Development Bank
Date: July 2009
This resource provides describes a rural electrification project that aims to extend electrical lines, install solar panels, and rehabilitate a two-megawatt hydropower station to provide distributed electricity generation to a rural region of Lesotho.
Source: Africa Development Bank
Date: November 2010
This website features links to United Nations Development Programme case studies and publications on how energy can be used to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, which is one of eight UN Millennium Development Goals for 2015.
Source: United Nations
This report focuses on the role that modern energy services play in enhancing the agriculture value chain, from production to commercialization, as well as transport of goods.
Source: German Association for International Cooperation, German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
Date: January 2011
This website includes books, selected articles and chapters, reports, working papers, and technical papers focusing on energy access issues.
This catalogue contains documents produced by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and its partners in the area of energy for poverty reduction and sustainable development.
Source: United Nations