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GENDER MAINSTRAIMING IN THE SUSTAINABLE AND
PARTICIPATORY ENERGY MANAGEMENT PROJECT IN SENEGAL
Presented by YOUSSOU LO PROGEDE Coordinator
WORLD BANK ENERGY WEEK 2006
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SUMMARY

1. CONTEXT
2. DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES
3. SPECIFIC GENDER ELEMENTS OF PROGEDE
4. ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS
5. BENEFITS FOR WOMEN AND MEN
6. IMPACT OF GENDER APPROACH ON GENDER EFFECTIVENESS
   (MAIN LESSONS LEARNED)
7. CHALLENGES FOR THE FUTURE PROJECT PLANNING

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CONTEXT

• Gradual degradation of forest cover (30000
  ha/year)
• Charcoal consumption of 330000 T
• Consumption in principal urban areas 76

THREE STONES
FUELWOOD STOVE
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CONTEXT (cont)

• Impoverishment of rural areas with acceleration
  of exodus
• Inequity of forestry exploitations and patterns
  women are confined to roadside retailers and men
  to production site and large scale retailers in
  urban sector.

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CONTEXT (cont)

• The situation of women in the project area needs
  special attention
• Women account for 50.9 of total population
• High level of poverty among women
• Illiteracy stands at 75 for women
• Lack of political voice

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CONTEXT (cont)

• Weak access in the area of micro- credit
• More time devoted to domestic work such as
  collection of fuelwood and water, household
  maintenance and cooking which deprive them from
  undertaking income generating activities

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DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES

• From the outset, the project focuses on a
  nexus approach to the sector, recognizing that
  the development of the traditional energy sector
  can lead to tangible results to environmental
  sustainability, rural poverty alleviation, energy
  and economic efficiency and gender equity

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DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES
FOREST INVENTORY
GIS/DB ON 1 390 000 Ha

• Sustainable management of 370 000 Ha of NR

Biodiversity reserves
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DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES

• Institutional development
• Modernization of charcoal trade
• Economic diversification of charcoal traders
• Charcoal improved stove

Energy shop
Improved stove
Charcoal bag
Millenium Gelfuel
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DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES

• Meeting an important part of the rapidly growing
  urban demand for household fuels
• Arresting further loss of forest cover and
  ecosystems carbon sequestration potentials and
  biodiversity in MA

Charcoal trucks
Biodiversity CO2 Sequestration
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DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES

• Management of 300000 ha of NF
• Creating a protection zone around the NKNP
• (biodiversity reserve)

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DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES

• Providing private sector inter- fuel
  substitution Improved stoves initiatives
• Capacity building activities

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DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES

• PROGEDE focuses on
• Poverty alleviation rather than objectives target
• Social equity
• Income redistribution
• NR tenure rights
• Economic and social structure

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SPECIFIC GENDER ELEMENTS OF PROGEDE

• Consultative approach to involve key stakeholders
  
• Series of national and regional project
  preparation workshop on gender inclusion and
  traditional energy
• Series of participatory rural appraisals to
  obtain demographic, socio-economic and cultural
  information for the preparation of management
  plans

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SPECIFIC GENDER ELEMENTS OF PROGEDE

• Identification of relevant womens development
  issues, specific training and capacity building
• Series of meetings with womens group, NGOs for
  better understanding the needs of rural women and
  best methods of implementation

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ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS

• Vegetation GIS and DB for monitoring and
  evaluation of sector intervention
• Sustainable management system 318 161 Ha
• Production of sustainable Woodfuel 370 596 T/yr
• Production of Charcoal 67 400 T/yr
• Net CO2 reduction 420 000 T/yr in managed area

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BENEFITS FOR WOMEN AND MEN

• Participating villages 317(including 250 000
  families representing 21 of the two regions)
• Incremental revenues from Charcoal sale, poultry,
  apiculture, gardening and non wood forest
  products US 12,5 Million/yr (approx.30 go to
  women)
• Empowerment of rural associations (including
  women as group leader)

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BENEFITS FOR WOMEN AND MEN

• Poverty alleviation (40000 annual income per
  village)
• Rural community empowerment and social change
• Generation of rural employment and incomes
• Gender development (diversified production
  system)
• Improved stoves benefit 100 000 families in
  urban area

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IMPACTS OF GENDER APPROACH ON PROJECT
EFFECTIVENESS (MAIN LESSONS LEARNED)

• Recognition, valuation and mobilization of gender
  potentials can be a entry points on project
  effectiveness
• Investigation in specific gender investment
  (special management activities for women and
  children) is relevant to gender participation and
  motivation
• Capacity development in organization and
  education of beneficiaries are driving force in
  project success and sustainability

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IMPACTS OF GENDER APPROACH ON PROJECT
EFFECTIVENESS (MAIN LESSONS LEARNED)

• Special attention to health, water access,
  household energy access and womens work
  alleviation can help gender beneficiaries to
  focus on more income generating activities
• Micro-credit line is necessary to support gender
  participation approach

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CHALLENGE FOR FUTURE PROJECT PLANNING

• Mainstreaming gender in the national
  environmental policies and programs (instead of
  added on women)
• Extending sustainable forest and NRM to the rest
  of the fuelwood supply zones of the country and
  including women as full partners in
  decision-making and in program inception and
  implementation
• Straightening the dialogue, integrated approach
  and links between NRM and other sectors
  (transport, agriculture, water, sanitation )

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Milk production
Woman at work
END OF THE PRESESENTATION
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