The Path to the SDGs The role of Gender and Energy Joy Clancy Professor Energy and Gender, CSTM

SEforAll – SDG – gender and energy matrix SDGs Energy Access Renewable Energy Energy Efficiency 1 Poverty 3 Health 4 Education 5 Gender Equality 6 Clean Water 7 Energy Access 8 Decent work & economic growth 17 Goals - reinforcing

Smoke gets in their eyes (SDG 2, 5 and 7) More than 1 billion people rely on smoky wood and charcoal as fuels Why don’t women adopt improved cookstoves? Is it because men control the purse strings? But men spend time in the kitchen too Is it the cost? Women from same income group show different behaviour – some adopt improved stoves; some don’t A note of caution: wood fuels (particularly charcoal) are not necessarily the fuel of the poor Source: Sunlight Cooking 2014

How do we get woodfuel smoke into their education? Matinga (CSTM/UT PhD): nurses trained in ‘Western Medicine’ practicing in rural South Africa didn’t make the link between smoke from wood fires and lung/eye diseases.

To grow or not to grow? Women entrepreneurs dilemma (SDG 8) Common perception: women are low risk takers in business Businesses are survivalist. Research by Bressers and Mohloakana (CSTM) and their team demonstrate that in informal food sector in Africa this is an incorrect assumption. 35% women IFS owners strongly agreed with the statement that they would like their business to become formal 23% men with same response How do we change these gendered perceptions?

Give women a chance: Engendering the energy supply chain (SDGs 5, 7 and 8) SEforAll requires increased availability of energy sources and services Supply chain is male dominated (except in accounts and sales) Assumptions: women are less corrupt than men; women are better than men at selling to other women CSR Challenge: Lead firm in the chain can influence women’s participation through its procurement policies

Thank you for listening Interested? CSTMs teaching programmes linked to this theme: MSc in Environmental and Energy Management Bachelor level minor: Crossing Borders - International Grand Challenges and Strategies for Technology, Sustainability And Development Professional Development: Energy Management in Small- and Medium-scale Industries with Focus on Preparing for ISO 50001 Energy Management Formulating Proposals For Low Carbon Climate Resilient Development: Designing Green Climate Fund Projects Contribute modules and thesis supervision to: MSc in Sustainable Energy Technology Research: Gender & Energy Research Programme http://www.energia.org/research/gender-energy-research-programme/