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…
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…
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…
The objectives of this study were to collect and analyze evidence to present a rationale for integrating gender into energy programs, examine the complexities involved, and propose some analytical tools, resources, methodologies, and…
