Gender and Energy, Daphné Barbotte Southeast Asia & Pacific Regional Secretariat Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP), ICRECC, Suva, Fiji, 7 December 2010

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Suva, Fiji, 7 December 2010
Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership
(REEEP)
Gender and Energy
Daphné B b
D h é Barbotte
Southeast Asia & Pacific Regional Secretariat
Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP)
ICRECC, Suva, Fiji, 7 December 2010
Gender and Energy, ICRECC
Suva, Fiji, 7 December 2010
Absolute poverty = lack of basic human needs
1.7 billion people “live” in absolute
poverty worldwide
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Part of the population living below the poverty line per country
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Millennium Development Goals
Linkages to
MDGs
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Energy
poverty
• 1.8 billion people rely on traditional biomass fuels
• pollution from these fuels kills about 2.5m women and children
each year
• kerosene expenditure totals to $38b/year or
$50/year/household
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Breaking the vicious cycle
Energy
poverty
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Breaking the vicious cycle
Energy
poverty
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Lighting as a first step
Energy
ladder
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Development
benefits
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MDG linkages to
energy
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MDG linkages to
energy
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Pacific Energy and Gender Network (PEG)
Gender and Connect, inform and mobilize people
Energy in the
Pacific and organizations committed to achieving
gender equality in energy use.
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Appropriate Technology for Community and Environment
(APACE) - Micro hydroelectric project
 Village developments
 Significant impact on women
APACE micro
hydroelectric
project
Gender and Energy, ICRECC
Suva, Fiji, 7 December 2010
Appropriate Technology for Community and Environment
(APACE) - Micro hydroelectric project
Aim: connect houses, kitchens and church over
three separate electrical circuits. A fourth circuit is
fed to the 600-student Beulah PSS.
APACE micro
hydroelectric Village development since the electricity supply was connected
project - Old houses repaired and up-graded.
- Street lighting installed.
- School kitchen facilities upgraded
upgraded.
- Purchase of 3 domestic water heaters for families with children.
- Start of a fish freezer business.`
- Establishment of a rice farm.
- Clinic electric power connected.
- Church improvements.
- All houses and kitchens connected light.
- New income-generating activities using electricity: sewing, craft.
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Appropriate Technology for Community and Environment
(APACE) - Micro hydroelectric project
Siginificant impact on Bulelevata women
• project policy support
APACE micro • female project management
hydroelectric • female role modeling at varying levels
project • specific women’s awareness and training workshops
• visits by women to other villages
• management committee positions for women
• a new village institution for women
• technical team leadership by women
• logistical project support teams being given equal
status to technical project teams
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Pacific Micro Energy Service Companies (PMESCOs)
AIM: create a
market
PMESCOs demand for
solar home
systems
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Pacific Micro Energy Service Companies (PMESCOs)
KEYS TO SUCCESS:
 local knowledge
PMESCOs
 in-country champion
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Pacific Micro Energy Service Companies (PMESCOs)
 AIM: create a market demand for solar home systems
 METHODOLOGY: find an existing entrepreneur that
could learn to incorporate clean energy technologies
into his business, conduct community consultations &
teach appropriate people about maintenance
PMESCOs
 KEY TO SUCCESS: have local knowledge & an in-
country champion who knows how to inspire p p
y p p people
and make clean energy to a prospering business
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Pacific Micro Energy Service Companies (PMESCOs)
PMESCOs
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Suva, Fiji, 7 December 2010
Pacific Micro Energy Service Companies (PMESCOs)
PMESCOs
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Pacific Micro Energy Service Companies (PMESCOs)
PMESCOs
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Pacific Renewable Energy & Microfinance (PREM)
Aim: to assist in the
development of
innovative &
PREM sustainable
microfinance for
renewable energy and
energy efficiency loan
ff l
products in Fiji,
Vanuatu and Samoa.
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Pacific Renewable Energy & • Aim: to assist in the development of
Microfinance (PREM) innovative & sustainable microfinance
for RE and EE l
f d loan products in Fiji,
d
Vanuatu and Samoa
• Project outputs:
 Baseline survey of microfinance
 Development of training materials
& training on basic awareness on
RE & EE
 Environmental risk & needs
assessment
• Project Partners:
– Foundation for Development
Cooperation (FDC) & MFIs in
Vanuatu, Fiji, Samoa
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Primary lessons from the Pacific region
Women &  Draw on the cultural standing of women
energy in the
Pacific  Involve and empower women within clean
energy projects to deliver sustainability and
benefit the whole community.
These concepts can work in your country
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Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership
 an international partnership established at the 2002
World Summit on Sustainable Development in
Johannesburg
REEEP is …
 working primarily in developing countries and in
countries in transition
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REEEP is facilitating the development of market
conditions for the accelerated uptake of renewable
Core themes energy and energy efficient technologies through:
 structuring policy and regulatory initiatives for
clean energy, and
 facilitating financing for clean energy projects
Unique role of bringing the private sector to the table
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REEEP partners
- businesses
- G8 countries
- developing
countries
- NGOs
REEEP Partners include 45 governments –
• all the G7 countries and South Africa, Brazil, Mexico )
• States and key agencies from China and India (NDRC, IREDA )
• Development Banks and other International Organisations
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REEEP Regional REEEP Regional Office REEEP International
North America Secretariat
Secretariats and REEEP Regional Office
local partners Latin America & REEEP Regional Office
Caribbean East Asia
REEEP Local Focal Point
support the MEDREP
REEEP Regional Office
global REEEP Local Focal Point
ECOWAS ‐ ECREEE
South Asia
partnership’s
activities
REEEP Regional Office
South East Asia & Pacific
REEEP Regional Office
Africa
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REEEP’s goals:
i
increase th sustainability of d
the t i bilit f demand and supply side
d d l id
of energy systems
 reduce market barriers and financial obstacles for
renewables and energy efficiency systems
 establish on-the-ground project activities that are
targeting policy improvements and innovative finance
mechanisms
 improve energy access for the poor through reliable
and clean energy services
 replicate success across the developed and developing
world
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REEEP is contributing to breaking the vicious cycle
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Gender and Energy, ICRECC
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Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Partnership
Southeast Asia and Pacific Regional Secretariat
Thank you
18 Kavanagh St
Southbank VIC 3006
Melbourne
T: +61 3 9929 4100
www.reeep.org
daphne.barbotte@reeep.org
www.reegle.info
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