Improving Gender Equality and Rural Livelihoods in Senegal through Sustainable and Participatory Energy Management : Senegal's PROGEDE II Project

Hammond, Alicia; Schomer, Inka; Ngom, Alassane; Seck, Awa; Lopes Janik, Vanessa

Improving Gender Equality and Rural Livelihoods in Senegal through Sustainable and Participatory Energy Management : Senegal's PROGEDE II Project

2015

Hammond, Alicia | Schomer, Inka | Ngom, Alassane | Seck, Awa | Lopes Janik, Vanessa

Launched in 2011, the Second Sustainable and Participatory Energy Management Project (PROGEDE II) for Senegal has been hailed for effectively mainstreaming a gender perspective into an energy project. Under the project, women have participated more in decision making; developed skills in technical production, entrepreneurship, and organizational management; and benefitted from increased incomes.

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World Bank, Washington, DC

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Gender imbalance; Benefit; Interventions; Discriminatory laws; Will; Heads of household; Barriers to women; Gender roles; Market; Family; Married women; Community; Male; Household; Incomes; Gender considerations; Labor force participation; Economic empowerment; Gender expertise; Female; Gender gap; Project; Gender parity; Gender equality goals; Gender sensitivity; Participation by women; Women’s rights; Gender concerns; Social issues; Labor force; Partners; Forms of discrimination; Ministry of gender; Skills; Discrimination against women; Gender issues; Gender perspective; Meal preparation; Specialist; House; Husband

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CC BY 3.0 IGO. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/. World Bank

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Brief; Text; Text

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Live Wire, 2015/40

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