Guidelines for gender and socially inclusive payment for ecosystem services for the water sector in Kenya
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Water is an essential resource for life, yet its sustainability is increasingly threatened by environmental degradation, climate change, and inequitable management practices. To address these challenges, the Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) approach offers a transformative mechanism for promoting environmental conservation while ensuring socio-economic equity.
Women Empowerment in Energy Efficiency, Innovation and Manufacturing Productivity
Key Messages
- It is painted that product innovation has a positive effect on energy efficiency
- Energy efficiency in the case studies has a positive effect on TFP, capital productivity, and labour productivity
- On average, Ghana has the highest energy efficiency among the four case study countries including Ethiopia, Kenya and Nigeria
- There is no association between firm innovation and gender in Ethiopia, Kenya, Ghana and Nigeria
- Findings highlighted that productivity effects of energy efficiency are lower for women-owned enterprises
Farmers in the midst of climate change: an intra-household analysis of gender roles on farmers’ choices of adaptation strategies to salinity intrusion in Vietnam
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This study investigates the opinions of wives and husbands in farm households concerning desirable adaptive responses to salinity intrusion. Data were collected via a survey of farm households in three coastal provinces in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. The sample includes 117 married couples who have been growing rice for several years. The findings indicate that wives and husbands have different opinions on adaptation strategies. Different factors affect wives’ and husbands’ choices of adaptive measures as well as the number of adaptive measures that they would consider taking.
Droughts and domestic violence: Measuring the gender-climate nexus.
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Every year, 245 million women are victims of intimate partner violence (IPV). Climate change is hypothesized to exacerbate this figure through its disruptive impact on household livelihoods, among other channels. However, little causal evidence exists on this aspect of the climate-gender nexus, partly due to measurement challenges that have contributed to gaps in the literature. In this paper, we use three different IPV data sources to examine the effect of drought in Mexico and the role of agricultural vulnerability in intensifying these effects.
The political economy of gender mainstreaming in energy access in Sierra Leone
Structural Equation Approach to Modeling Social Norms in Women’s Education: A Case Study of India
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Studies on women's education often use indicators of social practices as proxies for social norms but fail to account for three critical features of norms: they are latent, multifaceted, and shaped by external factors. To address these gaps, the study employ the MIMIC (Multiple Indicators and Multiple Causes) model within a structural equation framework. This method enables the inclusion of various social practices, each serving as an imperfect representation of an underlying norm, while also identifying exogenous factors that can drive changes in these norms.