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Author and Title	Dutta, Soma, "Role of Women in Rural Energy Programmes: Issues, Problems and Opportunities"
Article in	Article in ENERGIA News, Volume 1 Issue 4, October 1997, p. 11-14
Available online at	http://www.energia.org
End use	Household energy
Energy technology
Issue	Planning methodology; women's needs
Level	Policy advice; case-study
Description	As the predominant sources of fuel are derived from biomass resources, the author considers that women have an intrinsic and symbolic relationship with their surrounding natural resource system. However, for a variety of reasons, they do not have a role in the management and control of the resources. Even in the government-initiated programmes in the rural energy and environment sectors, there are no mechanisms to incorporate a meaningful role for women in project planning and implementation. The lacklustre performance of interventions, such as the biogas and improved cook-stoves programmes, is increasingly attributed, to a great extent, to the poor level of involvement and lack of benefits for the women in these programmes.

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