Women in Wood Energy Development

Training Course for South Asia

RWEDP Report No.24, April 1996

The report describes the first Sub-regional Training Course on Women and Wood Energy Development, which was organized by RWEDP for member countries from the South Asian region. The training course was a follow-up of the Regional Expert Consultation on Gender and Wood Energy in Asia, held in Chang Mai, Thailand (see Report No. 22). The main subjects, all in relation to wood energy development, in the training course were:

• Personal awareness of gender, like perceptions about questions of gender and development;

• Placing gender, i.e. understanding different possible approaches to issues of women and development, which have different implications for kinds of interventions that are selected;

• Gender analysis tools, i.e. step by step methods and procedures with respect to planning, assessing project proposals, etc. to check probable impacts on men and women;

• Adapting existing checklists, like how to adapt checklists to local circumstances;

• Gender analysis field tools, i.e. tools and procedures that are useful in the fundamental redesign of projects from gender principles.

Some 20 higher and middle level staff from institutions and departments concerned with wood energy planning, policies and strategies, from the forestry sector, the energy sector and NGO's, involved in the implementation of projects and programmes, participated in the training course. During the training various methods and tools such as case studies, exercises, discussions, audiovisual materials, role playing, etc. were introduced. Using these methods and tools, all described in the report, the participants learned through a "hands on" approach how and when to use such "interventions". The report stresses that, although there are common notions about gender and development, invariably differences are found within regions and countries and that a "standard" approach may have to be adapted to suit local situations.

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