Gender and Energy
Understand, define, and contribute to planning and designing of energy policies to promote gender-equal impact.
Type
Domain
Competency Area
Gender and Development
Levels
Understands the role of gender equality in energy policy
Understands the linkages between gender equality and various energy developments
Understands the key thematic areas of energy and gender: electrification, productive use of energy, energy sector policy dynamics, energy subsidy reform, the role of the private sector in scaling up energy access, gender mainstreaming approaches, and global trends in gender and energy
Identifies gender barriers in the energy sector that contribute to widening gender gap
Identifies feasibility and limitations
Identifies pathways for addressing the various gender barriers in the energy sector in order to achieve greater gender equality, reduce emissions and increase energy security
Understands the importance of gender equal efforts in developing energy policies
Able to identify institutional and sociological gender biased policy dynamics
Identifies the linkages between climate change, energy policy and its impact on the poverty stricken livelihood
Designs energy gender equal policy instruments
Designs sustainable energy policy using scientific data evidence of energy assessments accounting for gender trends
Introduces or uses evidence based research interventions which have proven to improve the gender gap in energy policy impact.
Includes both supply (policy creation) and demand side (policy impact) needs of gender equality in policy design
Incorporates measures of affordability and availability of energy services as compared to status quo
Incorporates technological innovations in energy sector to reduce gender gap
Contributes to global sustainable energy-gender equal goals
Integrates gender and energy actions within all SDGs and establishes gender-responsive global and national energy policies
Identifies global trends that could help catalyse the closing of energy access gaps around the world and show how these trends relate to gender inequality
Promotes women-centric business models for expanding energy access to all
Modifies international and national energy and climate change programmes and mechanisms such as the Green Climate Fund and Nationally Determined Contributions to meaningfully integrate gender concerns in programming
Promotes (and funds) the establishment of an international monitoring system to assess the progress towards eliminating energy poverty that explicitly includes gender and rights concerns