Poverty Alleviation & Gender > Events
Reducing Drudgery of Women Carrying Biofuels, 2007-08: E-Discussion and Field surveys
This year IRADe was chosen as the National Focal Point (NFP) of ENERGIA-International network for Gender and Sustainable Energy. As a part of network activities, IRADe ran an e-debate with professionals from gender, energy and poverty on a common platform on certain identified issues to share best practices and develop ideas for gender-energy-poverty related research activities. The second level of the exercise was field survey of the suggestions received from focused group exercise, done in one village each in North India (Rajasthan) and South India (Karnataka) respectively by partners Social Policy Research Institute, Jaipur in North India and TIDE, Bangalore in Karnataka. The results of the survey brought to forefront the difference in opinions and willingness to adopt new ideas in two different geographical locations of India.
Sponsored by ENERGIA – the International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy
National Stakeholder Consultation on Gender Issues, MDGs and Poverty Alleviation for CSD 14th, 16th March 2006
A half- day consultation was organized by IRADe in collaboration with the All India Women’s Conference.
Key issues of the consultation were energy, millennium development Goals, poverty alleviation, and implementation of official National Energy policies. The participants supported recommendations drafted by IRADe in the National Paper and gave additional suggestions that poverty alleviation is about increasing people’s productivity, for which all issues of health, education, electricity and fuel need to be addressed.
Sponsored by ENERGIA – the International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy
The Third ENERGIA National Focal Points(NFP) Meeting, 1-3 November 2006 at New Delhi
ENERGIA Asia Network in collaboration with IRADe organized the third ENERGIA National Focal Points Meeting. IRADe is active in advocating more attention to the non-commercial energy sector (fuel-wood) managed by women, which is the second largest energy source after coal. IRADe advocated bringing energy within one Km of rural habitants, and organized and participated in events related to United Nations Commission in Sustainable Development CSD (14 and 15). The group engaged in discussing and developing a set of monitoring criteria and National plans for each NFP.