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Author and Title	Balakrishnan, Lalitha, "Renewable Energy Sources and Women: a National Women's Organisation's Perspective on Domestic Device"
Article in	Conference paper, IECEC 97, Proceedings of the Third-Second Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, Volume 3, 27 July till 1 August 1997, Honolulu
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End use	Household energy
Energy technology	Renewable energy in general
Issue	Women's needs; empowerment
Level	Programme description
Description	The All Indian Women's Conference (AIWC) has been implementing various schemes for meeting women's daily energy needs both in rural and urban areas, by using renewable energy sources, including solar power, biogas and improved woodstoves. The results of these programmes conducted consistently all over India through their large network of branches, have shown highly beneficial results for rural and urban women, minimising their drudgery and saving them from smoke related diseases. In addition, they also serve to empower women through the income generation component of the programmes along with an improvement in their overall quality of life. AIWC's experience has shown that more emphasis should be given on users training and awareness-raising and also to strengthen the capacity of the NGOs implementing 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