Energy 4 all? Investigating gendered energy justice implications of community-based micro-hydropower cooperatives in Ethiopia

Wiese, Katharina

doi:10.1080/13511610.2020.1745059

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“…This reminds us that the "bullying" of foreign sources in national energy management to promote renewables, as perceived in the literature (Monyei et al, 2018;Todd et al, 2019), can be rather symptomatic of an existing failed or doomed national management of the transition. The result is that we support calls for greater decentralization (Lawrence, 2020;Wiese, 2020;Zalengera et al, 2020).…”

Section: Reduce Reliance On National Government and Utilitiessupporting

confidence: 54%

Achieving Energy Justice in Malawi: From key Challenges to Policy Recommendations

McCauley

Grant

Mwathunga

2021

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Addressing energy provision and access in Sub-Saharan Africa is a key global challenge. This paper builds a deep understanding of how fair and just energy policies and realties are in this context. It qualitatively assesses the perceptions of stakeholders in Malawi, where electricity access remains amongst the lowest in the region. Insufficient and unreliable systems of grid energy generation and distribution limit access to electricity in both urban and rural settings. Using wood fuel remains high for meeting cooking, heating, and lighting needs. Responding to these dual challenges, of lacking electricity access and ongoing wood fuel use, must be rooted in notions of equity, fairness, and justice. This paper argues that energy justice provides key insights into how best to respond to complex and interconnected issues of energy generation and access in low-income settings. Drawing on interviews with key stakeholders in policy and Malawi on addressing these challenges, this paper also outlines recommendations for policy. Overall, a just response to these energy challenges is possible, but only if it is built on local inclusive governance with fairer and effective systems of investment.

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Section: Reduce Reliance On National Government and Utilitiessupporting

confidence: 54%

Achieving Energy Justice in Malawi: From key Challenges to Policy Recommendations

McCauley

Grant

Mwathunga

2021

Preprint

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“…This reminds us that the 'bullying' of foreign sources in national energy management to promote renewables, as perceived in the literature (Monyei et al 2018;Todd et al 2019), can be rather symptomatic of an existing failed or doomed national management of the transition. The result is that we support calls for greater decentralisation (Lawrence 2020;Wiese 2020;Zalengera et al 2020).…”

Section: Attract New Actors In Decentralised Off-grid Energy Developmentsupporting

confidence: 50%

Achieving energy justice in Malawi: from key challenges to policy recommendations

2022

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Addressing energy provision and access in Sub-Saharan Africa is a key global challenge. Drawing on interviews with key stakeholders, this paper applies an energy justice framework in overviewing energy realities and policies in Malawi, where electricity access remains among the lowest in Sub-Saharan Africa. The use of woodfuel remains high for meeting cooking, heating, and lighting needs leading to indoor air pollution, with serious health consequences, and widespread deforestation. Responses to these dual challenges, a lack of electricity access and ongoing woodfuel use, must be rooted in notions of equity, fairness, and justice. Application of energy justice theorising provides insights into how policy stakeholders are responding to complex and interconnected issues of energy generation and access in low-income settings. Overall, a just response to these energy challenges is possible, but only if it is built on local inclusive governance with fairer and effective systems of investment.

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“…Women's participation in the energy transition is important (Maji et al 2021;Wiese 2020;Yasmin and Grundmann 2020). The United Nations supports the importance of women's roles under its Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 5 and 7 -gender equality and access to clean energy for all society.…”

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The Importance of Women Participation in Ensuring Justice in Energy Transition in ASEAN and G7

Sumarno

Fitriyanti²,

Khusna³

et al. 2023

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Many countries have increased their climate ambitions, including net-zero by 2060. Gender equality is essential for just energy transition (JET). United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 5 and 7 promote gender equality and access to sustainable energy for all. Women's participation in JET is crucial, yet they are underrepresented in the energy industry. This study promotes women's participation in the JET and strives to reconcile justice and inclusivity in the energy transition from upstream and downstream ASEAN beneficiaries with G7 precedents. This paper aims to analyse the aspect of justice in the energy transition from women's perspectives in ASEAN and G7 countries. Most of the literature on women's issues in the energy sector is related to energy poverty and energy access. Hence, this paper will contribute to the literature on women's perspectives in the energy transition both in the workforce and in society as consumers. This paper analyses to answer a question on “how far women in ASEAN have participated in the energy transition (leadership roles to end-users) compared to women in G7 economies?”. We use case studies with cross-analysis of ASEAN and G7 countries throughout this paper to demonstrate the contrast and similarity of gender equality in energy sector by exploring women’s experience as workers in the energy sector and as energy consumers (dirty to clean cooking – clean electricity).  We applied strategy basic research by conducting content analysis with intensive literature reviews, and additional aspects of women’s perspectives on this area, those who work and live in these regions to develop regional context. We also adopted the three tenets of justice by Jenkins et al (2016) and analysed the data collected using this framework. This paper finds that ASEAN and G7 regions are almost at the same level in terms of women participation in ensuring a just energy transition. Despite having more women in the leadership roles in renewable energy sector, G7 is almost at the same level as ASEAN in their effort of improving women’s participation to accelerate and ensure a just transition in the regions.

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Energy 4 all? Investigating gendered energy justice implications of community-based micro-hydropower cooperatives in Ethiopia

Cited by 17 publications

References 51 publications

Achieving Energy Justice in Malawi: From key Challenges to Policy Recommendations

Achieving Energy Justice in Malawi: From key Challenges to Policy Recommendations

Achieving energy justice in Malawi: from key challenges to policy recommendations

The Importance of Women Participation in Ensuring Justice in Energy Transition in ASEAN and G7

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