Renewable Energy Program #1 - Solar Gender Assessment

The assessment reveals a complex gender landscape in Mongolia where women have high educational attainment and strong legal protections but face significant barriers in the labor market, political empowerment, and decision-making. In the energy sector, women bear a disproportionate burden of household drudgery, particularly in rural areas and peri-urban gers. While small-scale solar home systems have previously improved intra-household dynamics and saved time for women, the large-scale renewable energy sector is in its infancy with limited gender-disaggregated data. XacBank aims to address these gaps by implementing gender-non-discriminatory hiring and capacity-building targets within its solar program to benefit vulnerable populations, including rural women and female-headed households.

• Mongolia demonstrates a contradiction between high educational equality and low political empowerment; while it ranked first for no gap in health and safety and had a high index for education access (0.995), it ranked 117th in political empowerment.
• The Mongolian labor market is highly segmented by gender, with women concentrated in low-paid, economically static sectors such as health care, education, and social services, and facing a retirement age of 55 compared to 60 for men.
• Women in Mongolia face significant barriers to economic participation due to unpaid care work, a lack of affordable childcare, and the absence of legal support for paternity leave.
• Gender stereotypes persist in rural decision-making, particularly among herders who believe men are mentally and physically stronger and better suited for leadership roles.
• Domestic violence is a widespread issue, with 2010 estimates indicating that one in three women in Mongolia was a victim of domestic violence and one in 10 was a victim of battery.
• Women bear a disproportionate burden of household drudgery, especially in rural areas and peri-urban gers around Ulaanbaatar where limited access to heating and electric grids necessitates the use of coal-fed stoves.
• The adoption of small-scale solar home systems (SHSs) has been shown to reduce women's household drudgery, provide significant time-savings, and increase women's freedom in household decision-making.
• There is a critical lack of gender-disaggregated data at the national level across various sectors, including infrastructure and the large-scale renewable energy sector, which hinders the conduct of gender-impact assessments.

APA

Green Climate Fund (2017). Renewable Energy Program #1 - Solar Gender Assessment. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/gender-assessment-fp046-xacbank-mongolia.pdf

Chicago

Green Climate Fund. Renewable Energy Program #1 - Solar Gender Assessment. 2017. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/gender-assessment-fp046-xacbank-mongolia.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{greenclimatefund2017renewable, author = {{Green Climate Fund}}, title = {{Renewable Energy Program \#1 - Solar Gender Assessment}}, institution = {Green Climate Fund}, year = {2017}, month = sep, url = {https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/gender-assessment-fp046-xacbank-mongolia.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }