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| Author and Title |
Cecelski, Elizabeth, "The Rural Energy Crisis, Women's Work and Basic Needs: Perspectives and Approaches to Action" |
| Article in |
World Employment Programme Research, Rural Employment Policy Research Programme, Technical Co-operation Report, International Labour Office, 1985, ISBN 92 2 105091 2 |
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| End use |
Household energy |
| Energy technology |
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| Issue |
Health impacts on women versus men; reducing women's workload; women's needs |
| Level |
Research |
| Description |
The rural energy crisis can be seen in the context of rural women's work, basic needs and other rural development problems that are of concern to the ILO. This paper, based on preliminary findings of an ILO project on Energy and Rural Women's Work, attempts to describe these inter-relationship. The aim of this paper is placing household energy problems in the context of rural women's work, household basic needs and rural development. Since these concerns combine perspectives from fuel consumption, time budget and nutrition studies, scattered findings from the literature are drawn together and analysed in the light of energy/rural women's work concerns. Preliminary results of the ILO studies in the above-mentioned sectors are used to more fully explain these relationships and their implications for policy, based on personal field visits, observations and discussions with the national researchers by the author, and progress reports of the individual country projects.
Household labour allocation is first examined. Preliminary findings on the impacts of fuel scarcities on family nutrition and health are then analysed. Based on these findings, approaches to incorporate the role of women and household energy needs into ongoing and planned energy projects and programmes are then suggested. Most important, approaches are proposed throughout for the participation of rural households and particularly of rural women, as the principle users and suppliers of household energy, in the planning, development and implementation of new energy technologies and strategies. This study makes an important contribution to the understanding of the inter-relationships among the rural energy crisis, women's work and family welfare. |
This bibliography item provided with financial support of the Department for International Development of the UK Government (DFID) and ENERGIA International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy
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