GENDER MAINSTRAIMING IN THE SUSTAINABLE AND PARTICIPATORY ENERGY MANAGEMENT PROJECT IN SENEGAL

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

2. SUMMARY • CONTEXT • DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES • SPECIFIC GENDER ELEMENTS OF PROGEDE • ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS • BENEFITS FOR WOMEN AND MEN • IMPACT OF GENDER APPROACH ON GENDER EFFECTIVENESS (MAIN LESSONS LEARNED) • CHALLENGES FOR THE FUTURE PROJECT PLANNING

3. CONTEXT • Gradual degradation of forest cover (30000 ha/year) • Charcoal consumption of 330000 T • Consumption in principal urban areas 76% THREE STONES FUELWOOD STOVE

4. CONTEXT (con’t) • 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.

5. CONTEXT (con’t) 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

6. CONTEXT (con’t) • 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

7. 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

8. DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES FOREST INVENTORY GIS/DB ON 1 390 000 Ha Sustainable management of 370 000 Ha of NR Biodiversity reserves

9. 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

10. DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES • Meeting an important part of the rapidly growing urban demand for household fuels • Arresting further loss of forest cover and ecosystem’s carbon sequestration potentials and biodiversity in MA Charcoal trucks Biodiversity & CO2 Sequestration

11. DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES • Management of 300000 ha of NF • Creating a protection zone around the NKNP (biodiversity reserve)

12. DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES • Providing private sector inter- fuel substitution; Improved stoves initiatives • Capacity building activities

13. DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES PROGEDE focuses on: • Poverty alleviation rather than objectives target • Social equity • Income redistribution • NR tenure rights • Economic and social structure

14. 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

15. SPECIFIC GENDER ELEMENTS OF PROGEDE • Identification of relevant women’s development issues, specific training and capacity building • Series of meetings with women’s group, NGOs for better understanding the needs of rural women and best methods of implementation

16. 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

17. 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)

18. BENEFITS FOR WOMEN AND MEN • Poverty alleviation ($40000annual 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

19. 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

20. IMPACTS OF GENDER APPROACH ON PROJECT EFFECTIVENESS(MAIN LESSONS LEARNED) • Special attention to health, water access, household energy access and women’s work alleviation can help gender beneficiaries to focus on more income generating activities • Micro-credit line is necessary to support gender participation approach

21. 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 )

22. Milk production Woman at work END OF THE PRESESENTATION Healthy Gender Community Forest Protein Diet