MALI SOLAR RURAL ELECTRIFICATION PROJECT

The report provides a gender context analysis and a strategic framework to integrate gender perspectives into the 'Green Energy Services for Communities in Rural Mali' project. It identifies that rural women in Mali face significant energy poverty and a heavy domestic workload due to reliance on biomass, which contributes to deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions. The plan proposes specific actions across three project components: capacity building for institutions, installation of solar-powered minigrids, and support for the productive use of electricity. Key objectives include improving women's participation in decision-making, providing solar equipment for income-generating activities (such as motor pumps and dryers), and establishing a gender-responsive monitoring and evaluation system with sex-disaggregated data.

• Rural women in Mali experience severe energy poverty and a heavy daily workload, primarily relying on biomass for cooking and artisanal processing, which limits their ability to develop income-generating activities.
• The heavy dependence on biomass in rural Mali has significant environmental impacts, including the deforestation of approximately 400,000 hectares per year and the emission of 15.45 megatons of carbon dioxide, which represents 94.33% of the country's total greenhouse gas emissions in carbon equivalent.
• The project aims to electrify 300 localities using autonomous renewable energy systems, such as solar PV and wind, to reduce the economic and social vulnerability of rural women.
• To empower women economically, the plan identifies a need for specific solar-powered equipment, including motor pumps for gardening, solar fridges, slicers, grinders, and dryers for agro-sylvo-pastoral product transformation.
• The Gender Mainstreaming Action Plan establishes specific objectives to increase the participation of women and youth in project decision-making and implementation, and to provide them with training on the maintenance and use of energy equipment.
• The strategy includes a gender-responsive monitoring and evaluation (M&E) system that requires the collection of sex-disaggregated data to track impacts and benefits for both men and women.

APA

Green Climate Fund (2019). MALI SOLAR RURAL ELECTRIFICATION PROJECT. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/gender-assessment-fp102-boad-mali.pdf

Chicago

Green Climate Fund. MALI SOLAR RURAL ELECTRIFICATION PROJECT. 2019. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/gender-assessment-fp102-boad-mali.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{greenclimatefund2019mali, author = {{Green Climate Fund}}, title = {{MALI SOLAR RURAL ELECTRIFICATION PROJECT}}, institution = {Green Climate Fund}, year = {2019}, month = jan, url = {https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/gender-assessment-fp102-boad-mali.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }