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Assessing the impact of solar panels to improve energy access for women in rural Ghana
Get PDFThe government of Ghana aims to provide energy access to communities with populations of 500 and above, but isolated communities (rural or island) have no access to electricity. This case study explored the factors enhancing women’s empowerment through energy access and investigated productive uses of energy in informal food preparation and processing sectors owned by women and vulnerable populations. The project assessed the impact on energy access, gender, and the political economy of the energy sector in these communities and explored how to enhance the role of the private sector in scaling up energy access for all
Designing mobile services for ageing women in Malaysia
Get PDFMalaysia reached its demographic trajectory to become an aging society in 2020, and the aged population remains low in adopting mobile technologies. To improve the participation of this user group and align them with technological development, this project aims to explore mobile usage behaviour, and expenditure on telecommunication among female elderly in Malaysia and propose a framework to better design mobile services for them. To achieve this objective, the research team conducted quantitative studies and a qualitative study involving female elderly participants to explore their use of mobile services through the lens of intersectionality
Clothing, textile and leather value chain in Africa
Get PDFThe presentation provides information on the clothing, textile, and leather value chains in Africa
Improving transportation systems for women in Rwanda
Get PDFSince the early 1990s, gender mainstreaming has been developed as a tool to help in implementing new policies in different areas, however, this tool has not been properly utilized in the transport sector. This project focuses on including gender mainstreaming in the research of the transport system in Kigali City, Rwanda. The gendered public transport project shows that there are tenacious and clear gender differences in transport patterns amongst women, elderly people, and people with disabilities. This research project shows that transport policymakers and researchers must pay attention to gender issues in order to incorporate gendered designs that will impact and improve transport policy and transportation systems
Developing a hybrid fish dryer to improve processing for small-scale female processors in Lagos, Nigeria
Get PDFIn Lagos State, Nigeria, fish processing is a female-centric occupation dominated by traditional smoke-drying technologies that exhibit occupational hazards and fuel inefficiencies. Among fish processors in the small-scale fisheries sector, there has been limited success to introduce home grown technologies for adoption. Campaigns against the use of firewood and switching to charcoal have not been successful. Barriers to the adoption of improved fish smoking practices and sustainable energy use are influenced by cultural biases, socio-economic and psychological factors. Additionally, the energy crisis has added another barrier to the adoption of charcoal due to increasing costs. Based on the identified challenges, this project adopted a transdisciplinary approach conducting surveys and training workshops with fish processors, fishermen and other stakeholders to design a modernized fish dryer prototype and to evaluate the adoption of alternative biomass sources for fuel
Reimagining urban territories for women’s autonomy in Colombia
Get PDFSpanish version available in IDRC Digital Library : Reimaginar territorio urbano para la autonomía femenina en ColombiaThis project builds on ongoing work in the neighborhood of Bélen in Bogotá to resist gentrification and redevelopment efforts through the creation and expansion of community spaces with a gendered perspective. Researchers from Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano worked with a local group of women, the Circle of Women Aisha, to create a community kitchen and expand and renovate an existing community garden at a local community space Casa B. This project focuses on domestic spheres to argue that they are important spaces of feminist politics and community knowledge
Responsible artificial intelligence for Africa's agriculture and food systems : challenges and opportunities
Get PDFAfrica’s population is expected to reach about 2.6 billion by 2050. This will require an increase of up to 70% in food production. This Working Paper aims to showcase the challenges and opportunities in the responsible development, deployment, and scaling of homegrown artificial intelligence research and innovations in Africa to tackle pressing challenges in agriculture and food systems. If responsibly applied, AI in agriculture and food systems is a panacea for Africa’s development. Core principles of responsible AI use must be mainstreamed to ensure human-centered design, privacy, and intellectual property compliance, with ethics and robustness
Research quality plus (RQ+) 2023 : formative evaluation exercise
Get PDFFrench version available in IDRC Digital Library: Qualité de la recherche plus (QR+) : exercice d’évaluation formative de 202
