Climate Change and Gender Justice

Terry, Geraldine

doi:10.3362/9781780440088

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Bioenergy policies in Africa: mainstreaming gender amid an increasing focus on biofuels

Molony

2011

Biofuels Bioprod Bioref

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Many developing countries are now working to update their existing energy strategies and to formulate their bioenergy policies to accommodate rises in domestic and external supply and demand for biofuels. This paper presents a case for mainstreaming gender into African countries' bioenergy policies, and uses a review of the literature on gender and bioenergy to suggest some important avenues for future research to expand the current poor state of information on gender and the newer issue of biofuels. The paper opens with a brief discussion on the motivation for interest in biofuels in some African countries and suggests that in the integrated global context of biofuels, the conditions that generate inequality between rich and poor remain unchanged. It then discusses equity and energy poverty, and points to the lack of empirical evidence on gender issues relating specifi cally to biofuels. From this it turns to our knowledge of what the existing state of broader bioenergy use can tell us about bringing gender equity to African national bioenergy policies, and suggests that gender equity can be 'energized' through a perspective that focuses as much on social roles and relations between men and women as it does on ascribed responsibilities. National level bioenergy Policy Working Groups (PWGs) are then introduced as having an important role to play in ensuring that gender issues are mainstreamed into bioenergy policy within the context of the increasing focus on biofuels.

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Bioenergy policies in Africa: mainstreaming gender amid an increasing focus on biofuels

Molony

2011

Biofuels Bioprod Bioref

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Social learning and climate change adaptation: evidence for international development practice

Ensor

Harvey

2015

WIREs Climate Change

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The potential for social learning to address complex, interconnected social and environmental challenges, such as climate change adaptation, is receiving increasing attention in research and practice. Social learning approaches vary, but commonly include cycles of knowledge sharing and joint action to co-create knowledge, relationships, and practices among diverse stakeholders. This results in learning and change that goes beyond the individual into communities, networks, or systems. Many authors have focused on analysis of case studies to better understand the contexts in which such learning occurs. In this paper, we look across this literature to draw out lessons for international development practice. To support those looking to purposively design social learning interventions for adaptation, we focus on four areas: lessons learned and the principles adopted when using a social learning approach, examples of tools and methods used, approaches to evaluating social learning, and examples of its impact. While we identify important lessons for practice within each of these areas, three cross-cutting themes emerge. These are: the importance of developing a shared view among those initiating learning processes of how change might happen and of how social learning fits within it, linking this locus of desired change to the tools employed; the centrality of skilled facilitation and in particular how practitioners may shift toward being participants in the collective learning process; and the need to attend to social difference, recognizing the complexity of social relations and the potential for less powerful actors to be co-opted in shared decision making.

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Women, Informal Settlements, and the Policy Practice Disjuncture in South Africa

Mntambo

Adebayo

Ndinda

2023

The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Problems

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Climate Change and Gender Justice

Cited by 49 publications

References 54 publications

Bioenergy policies in Africa: mainstreaming gender amid an increasing focus on biofuels

Bioenergy policies in Africa: mainstreaming gender amid an increasing focus on biofuels

Social learning and climate change adaptation: evidence for international development practice

Women, Informal Settlements, and the Policy Practice Disjuncture in South Africa

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