Mainstreaming gender to achieve security of energy services in poor urban environments

Musango, Josephine Kaviti; Smit, Suzanne; Ceschin, Fabrizio; Ambole, Amollo; Batinge, Benjamin; Anditi, Christer; Petrulaityte, Aine; Mukama, Matia

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2020.101715

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“…The stringent environmental regulations and carbon pricing would be crucial to limit dirty polluting industries. The results are in line with the subsequent studies, including, Aluko and Okuwa [74], Musango et al [75], Rola-Rubzen et al [76], Rosca et al [22], Brugere et al [77], and Nhamo and Mukonza [21]. These studies argued that through technological spillovers, women's empowerment would help improve environmental protection.…”

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“…Aluko and Okuwa [74] discussed that innovative and technical solutions empower women to improve their lives while it further equips them with specialized skills that can devise global environmental protection policies. Musango et al [75] emphasized the need to achieve energy efficiency by promoting gender into the mainstream of policy decisions to progress towards green development. Rola-Rubzen et al [76] described that agricultural transformation is gender-specific due to deeply rooted socio-cultural barriers that restrict women from accessing agricultural technologies and finance on an equity basis.…”

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Technowomen: Women’s Autonomy and Its Impact on Environmental Quality

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The role of women in economic development and the global environment is vital for progressing them towards the United Nations sustainable development goal (SDG-5) that emphasized the need to empower women in every walk of life. The study examines women’s autonomy in the sustainable development agenda under China’s open innovation system from 1975 to 2019. The study employed an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model, vector autoregressive (VAR) Granger causality, and innovation accounting matrix to estimate parameters. The existing data are summarized and collated in the context of China to explain as a correlational study. The results show that women’s autonomy moderated with technology spills over to decrease greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and substantiate the hump-shaped relationship between them. The increased spending on research and development (R&D) activities, patent publications, and renewable energy consumption empowers women to be equipped with the latest sustainable technologies to improve environmental quality. The pollution haven hypothesis verifies a given country, where trade liberalization policies tend to increase polluting industries to set up their plants that engaged in dirty production that exacerbate GHG emissions. The causality estimates confirmed that technological innovations and renewable energy consumption leads to women’s autonomy. In contrast, females’ share in the labor force participation rate leads to an increase in renewable energy consumption. Thus, it is evident that there is a positive role of women in the country’s sustainable development.

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Technowomen: Women’s Autonomy and Its Impact on Environmental Quality

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“…This is captured in clauses 1.5.5 and 1.5.6, which promote gender mainstreaming in the energy sector. The NEP affirm the findings from (Musango et al, 2020;Feenstra and € Ozerol, 2021) energy matters are of major interest to all, however, women are one of the most vital players in the energy sector, in relation to their contact, use and management of renewable energy sources.…”

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Improving women's energy access, rights and equitable sustainable development: a Ghanaian perspective

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PurposeThe purpose of the study is to investigate the challenges in improving women's energy access, rights and equitable sustainable development from a Ghanaian perspective.Design/methodology/approachThe research utilizes a mixed method. A qualitative in-depth exploratory design was chosen to understand how gender is mainstreamed within Ghana's energy sector. This included semi-structured interviews with key managers, experience policy experts and focus groups. The semi-structured interviews were analyzed using thematic content analysis (TCA).FindingsThe study reveals that the National Energy Policy of 2010, as the main energy policy regulating the energy sector in Ghana, does make provision for gender equality, safety especially women, in line with Ghana's sustainable development goals. The energy policy aims to empower women and create gender parity in the sector. Nevertheless, the study also found major challenges to gender mainstreaming in the energy sector, including poor analysis in formulating energy policies, inadequate financial resources, and poor monitoring and evaluation.Originality/valueThe paper exposes gender equity challenges associated with the energy sector in Ghana. It also offers a new policy angle which connects gender mainstreaming to sustainable development. The research describes how women are included in developing energy policies and in addressing gender challenges in the energy sector.

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“…In contrast, Matinga [77] notes that debates and dialogue on energy in Africa should focus on understanding the position of different stakeholders based on the characteristics of their viewpoints including their professions and career trajectories. This will give communities more power in the provision of their energy needs and will also enhance the creation of context-based and need-specific energy solutions [77,80,89]. We therefore advance the argument that innovative configurations for energy communities can lead to more inclusive, participatory, and just systems for energy-poor urban and rural communities in SSA [57,90].…”

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A Review of Energy Communities in Sub-Saharan Africa as a Transition Pathway to Energy Democracy

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Energy communities have received considerable attention in the Global North, especially in Europe, due to their potential for achieving sustainable energy transitions. In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), energy communities have received less attention partly due to the nascent energy systems in many emerging SSA states. In this paper, we argue that these nascent energy systems offer an opportunity to co-create energy communities that can tackle the energy access challenges faced by most SSA countries. To understand how such energy communities are realised in the sub-region, we undertake a systematic review of research on energy communities in 46 SSA countries. Our findings show that only a few energy projects exhibit the conventional characteristics of energy communities; In most of these projects, local communities are inadequately resourced to institute and manage their own projects. We thus look to stakeholder engagement approaches to propose co-design as a strategy for strengthening energy communities in SSA. We further embed our co-design proposal in energy democracy thinking to argue that energy communities can be a pathway towards equity and energy justice in SSA. We conclude that energy communities can indeed contribute to improving energy access in Africa, but they need an enabling policy environment to foster their growth and sustainability.

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Mainstreaming gender to achieve security of energy services in poor urban environments

Cited by 37 publications

References 103 publications

Technowomen: Women’s Autonomy and Its Impact on Environmental Quality

Technowomen: Women’s Autonomy and Its Impact on Environmental Quality

Improving women's energy access, rights and equitable sustainable development: a Ghanaian perspective

A Review of Energy Communities in Sub-Saharan Africa as a Transition Pathway to Energy Democracy

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