This publication explores how men and women are differently impacted by the extractive industries, and the implications of this on the sustainable development of their communities, as well as on the profitability of extractive industry…
This report highlights the tremendous difference that access to improved energy services in the form of biomass stoves, petroleum fuels, and household electrification makes for the life of rural women. Of course, the benefits of rural…
This report contains two volumes that detail an ongoing ESMAP and World Bank effort to use off- grid electrification alternatives as a vehicle to enhance economic development and the lives of women in rural Bangladesh. The main report…
The Community Development Toolkit contains two main parts:
17 Tools intended for use throughout the project cycle and which cover the assessment, planning, management, and evaluation phases of community development as well as…
The study's principal objective was to develop a practical method to measure the benefits of rural electrification. This method involved both formal and informal techniques of data collection; quantitative and qualitative methods of…
