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Ghana : Women's Energy Enterprise - Developing a Model for Mainstreaming Gender into Modern Energy Service Delivery

ACCESS TO MODERN ENERGY ADEQUATE EDUCATION AIR POLLUTION AIR POLLUTION REDUCTION ALTERNATIVE ENERGY AMORPHOUS SILICON APPROACH BASIC EDUCATION BATTERIES BATTERY CHARGING BIOMASS CAPACITY BUILDING CLEAN AIR CLEAN COAL CLEAN COAL TECHNOLOGIES COMMERCIAL SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRY COMPACT FLUORESCENT LAMPS CULTURAL PRACTICES DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT GOALS DIESEL DIESEL ENGINE DISSEMINATION DOMESTIC LIGHTING ECONOMIC GROWTH EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT EFFICIENT LAMPS ELECTRIC POWER ELECTRIC POWER PRODUCTION ELECTRICITY ELECTRICITY BILLS ELECTRICITY SUPPLY ELECTRICITY TARIFFS EMPLOYMENT EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES EMPOWERING WOMEN EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN ENERGY EFFICIENCY ENERGY EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENTS ENERGY PLANNERS ENERGY SECURITY ENERGY SERVICE ENERGY SUPPLY ENERGY USE EQUIPMENT FARMERS FARMS FISH FLUORESCENT LAMPS FUEL GAS GAS SECTOR GASOLINE GENDER GENDER DISCRIMINATION GENDER EQUALITY GENDER ROLES GENERATION GRID POWER HOSPITAL HUSBANDS HYDROPOWER INCOMES INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS INDIVIDUAL WOMEN JOB CREATION JOB OPPORTUNITIES KEROSENE KEROSENE LAMPS LANDFILL LEGAL STATUS LEVEL OF EDUCATION LIVELIHOODS LIVING STANDARDS LOW INCOME MARKETING MEDICAL SERVICES MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS NATIONAL CAMPAIGN NATIONAL POPULATIONS NUMBER OF PEOPLE OIL OIL IMPORTING OIL IMPORTING COUNTRIES OPINION LEADERS PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN PETROLEUM PETROLEUM PRODUCTS PETROLEUM SECTOR PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS PILOT PROJECTS POLITICAL PARTY POOR WOMEN POPULATION CENSUS POPULATION SIZE POVERTY REDUCTION POWER POWER GENERATION POWER OUTAGES POWER SECTOR POWER SYSTEM POWER TRADE PRODUCTION OF ENERGY PROGRESS RENEWABLE ENERGY RENEWABLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT RURAL AREAS RURAL COMMUNITIES RURAL ELECTRIFICATION RURAL ENERGY RURAL HOUSEHOLD ELECTRIFICATION RURAL WOMEN SERVICE DELIVERY SITUATION OF WOMEN SOCIAL IMPACT SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION SOLAR ELECTRIFICATION SOLAR ENERGY SOLAR HOME SYSTEMS SOLAR LANTERNS SOURCE OF ENERGY SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TRANSFER OF SKILLS TRANSPORTATION UTILITY BILLS VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS WOMAN YOUNG WOMEN
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World Bank, Washington, DC
Africa | Ghana
2014-04-22T16:34:25Z | 2014-04-22T16:34:25Z | 2006-03

This paper looks at the feasibility of creating employment in the energy sector for women in rural communities in Ghana. The report is based on a stakeholders' analysis of the feasibility of embarking on a micro-enterprise on multiple energy services for women in rural fishing and farming communities. The objective of the study is to test a business model for empowering women through income generation in energy service delivery. It is based on the background experience of a successful pilot project, in Bangladesh. The model involves capacity-building among rural women and micro-enterprise development for modern energy service delivery to their communities and surrounding ones. The focus of this study is to see if transfer of skills for manufacturing and production of energy service appliances can be accomplished without a high level of education among rural women. Such skills are considered as opportunities for initiating social transformation. The stakeholders' analysis in five selected communities was carried out to assess the willingness and preparedness of women in these communities to engage in other similar projects in Ghana. The findings of the analysis have recommended that the Nyanyano region be selected as the pilot electrified community. The findings are presented in the report and are followed up with some recommendations on how to proceed and what the next steps should be.

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