Linking energy access, gender and poverty: A review of the literature on productive uses of energy

Pueyo, Ana; Maestre, Mar

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2019.02.019

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“…Moreover, generating value added through local crop processing (Kyriakarakos et al, 2020) and retaining it among farms would considerably boost local socio-economic prospects, with the potential to set a positive feedback involving the entire local rural community. To enable these uses, the provision of energy is necessary (Barnes and Floor, 1996;Cabraal et al, 2005;Kirubi et al, 2009;Pueyo and Maestre, 2019), along with the purchase of machineries and infrastructure. In fact, currently 85% of the global population without electricity access is concentrated in rural areas (IEA et al, 2020).…”

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M-LED: Multi-sectoral Latent Electricity Demand Assessment for Energy Access Planning

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M-LED: Multi-sectoral Latent Electricity Demand Assessment for Energy Access Planning

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“…Continued use of kerosene lamps in Bangladesh and India despite access to cleaner electric lighting has been associated with the perception of solar lighting (Khandker et al 2014;Mural et al 2015). Social dynamics in rural communities and families greatly affect the benefits from electricity access (e.g., Grogan 2016; Salmon and Tanguy 2016; Furukawa 2014), with benefits for women often found to be smaller than for men (Pueyo and Maestre 2019). Implementing even the very same policy in a different geography can easily overturn the policy's impacts because of cultural and social differences.…”

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Shades of darkness or light? A systematic review of geographic bias in impact evaluations of electricity access

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Despite the growing use of impact evaluations for electrification interventions, little attention has been paid to the geographical distribution of such evaluations. This is concerning because cultural and regional differences may limit how transferable results across regions are. We undertake a systematic review of the literature and find 31 impact evaluations of electricity access in 16 countries that meet our criteria for statistical hypothesis testing of development outcomes. India accounts for a quarter of the impact evaluations. Given the large non-electrified population in India, this is still a small number, roughly comparable to Nigeria or Kenya. South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa are the most underrepresented regions. We find more positive impacts from electricity access, on average, for South Asia than for sub-Saharan Africa, which calls for greater attention to geographical bias in future impact evaluations of electrification access.

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“…Access to modern energy services has strong link with socioeconomic development of communities [5][6][7][8][9] and more importantly when the energy is put into productive use [10]. In areas where the national electricity grid is not available (off-grid areas), renewable energy solutions [11] including solar energy have been proposed as good options [12][13][14].…”

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Electricity Access, Community Healthcare Service Delivery, and Rural Development Nexus: Analysis of 3 Solar Electrified CHPS in Off-Grid Communities in Ghana

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Over 600 million people living in sub-Saharan Africa do not have access to electricity. Modern healthcare services, including vaccine refrigeration, which require electricity are therefore lacking in such energy-deprived communities. In this work, analysis has been conducted on how electricity access can help improve healthcare service delivery and rural development, with a case study on 3 different off-grid solar photovoltaic (PV) systems in community-based health planning and services (CHPS) in Ghana. Analysis from this study showed that for the 3.0 kWp solar PV systems installed at the various sites, the in-house electricity consumptions are between 4.30 and 7.58 kWh per day. It was found out that excess electricity generation of 148–304 kWh per month is available and can be used to provide other economic services including phone charging, torchlight battery charging, and small-sized cold storage services to generate income for the maintenance of the systems, which is critical for sustainability of solar PV installations in rural poor communities. The study results also showed that electrified health facilities which are able to provide basic healthcare services have potential impact on community health outcomes and rural development. Assessment conducted at the CHPS compounds revealed that, generally, there is improvement in healthcare service delivery resulting in time savings of 15-43 hours per month for the inhabitants which can potentially be used for productive work. The time savings were more significant in females and children than in males. In many rural agro-based communities in developing countries, female and children are usually the workforce engaged in various farming activities. This paper concludes that access to electricity in CHPS compounds helps to improve community health outcomes and increases time availability for women to engage in productive work that can potentially result in significant socioeconomic activities and rural development.

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Linking energy access, gender and poverty: A review of the literature on productive uses of energy

Cited by 126 publications

References 49 publications

M-LED: Multi-sectoral Latent Electricity Demand Assessment for Energy Access Planning

M-LED: Multi-sectoral Latent Electricity Demand Assessment for Energy Access Planning

Shades of darkness or light? A systematic review of geographic bias in impact evaluations of electricity access

Electricity Access, Community Healthcare Service Delivery, and Rural Development Nexus: Analysis of 3 Solar Electrified CHPS in Off-Grid Communities in Ghana

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