Mihyo: The Gender-Energy Nexus in Eastern and S

B. Mihyo, E. Mukuna, B. Mihyo, E. Mukuna

The Regional Economic Communities (RECs) in Eastern and Southern Africa have been at the forefront to developing new energy policies and programmes aimed at reaching the UN goal of Ensuring Access to Clean Energy for All by 2030. In the year 2006, the East African Community passed the EAC Strategy to Scale Up Access to Modern Energy Services, committing its Member States to reach the UN goal of ?access to all? by 2030. The Inter-governmental Authority for Development adopted its Environmental and Natural Resources Policy in 2007 which includes issues of renewable energy. The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa launched its Model Energy Programme in 2012, followed the same year by its comprehensive baselines database on renewable resources covering all its Member States. In the year 2009, the African Union General Assembly at its 12th Ordinary Session adopted the Policy on ?Scaling Up Renewable Energy in Africa?. The regional policies have been domesticated by Member Sates of the RECs. Although their targets are very ambitious, implementation programmes launched at national level are robust and producing results. Both in the policies and implementation programmes, gender issues have, however, not featured prominently. Noting this deficit, the Organisation for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa called for researchers to assess the extent to which energy policies in Eastern and Southern Africa have taken gender issues on board. This book is the product of that project. It has ten chapters that investigated the gender-energy nexus in Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Swaziland, Sudan and Kenya. The book will prove useful to all policy makers, researchers and analysts who may be interested in strengthening the gender content of the programmes as we move towards 2030. We believe it triggers and helps policy makers and researchers to create platforms to use its findings, and those of others, to see how in gender terms those at the bottom of the energy access pyramid can be factored into these programmes, to make sure they are not left behind.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Acronyms
• About Authors
• Introduction
• Chapter One - The Gender-Energy Nexus in Zimbabwe
• Chapter Two - Gender-Energy Nexus in Ethiopia: An Analytical Review
• Chapter Three - The Gender-Energy Nexus in Tanzania: Assesing Rural Electrification in the Context of Gender Mainstreaming among Women
• Chapter Four - Towards a Gender Transformative Agenda? A Critique of Gender Mainstreaming in Energy Policy in Kenya
• Chapter Five - Community Perspectives on the Demand, Availability and Accessibility of Energy Resources in Swaziland: A Case Study of Sinceni on Deforestation
• Chapter Six - Gender Equity and household Decision-Making in Alternative Energy Technologies Adoption: A Case of Access to Biogas Technology in Central Tanzania
• Chapter Seven - Cooking Fuel in Sudan: Utilisation Patterns, Health Hazards and Cleaner Fuel Adoption
• Chapter Eight - Turning Challenges into Opportunities in Household Energy Demand: Women Tiftif Makers in Yeka Sub-city, Addis Ababa
• Chapter Nine - Gender-Sensitive Clean Energy Technologies for Sustainable Development amongst Pastoralist Maasai Communites, Kenya
• Chapter Ten - Bridging the Gender Gap in Access to Energy in East Africa: A Needs-Based Approach
• Conclusions and Recommendations
• Back cover