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Seminar proceedings & outputs > Identified key issues

During the final plenary sessions an attempt was made by all participants to isolate and identify key issues linking poverty, energy and gender. These key issues are listed below:

Key:
Key Issues Participants felt were addressed during the Seminar	Key Issues Participants felt were not addressed during the Seminar

GENDER	Women & Decision-Making	Gender Development & Awareness	Gender Implementation not yet successfully done	Men in rural areasSchool- leaving children
GENDER to POVERTY	African Cultures	Roles of Gender in Poverty Alleviation
	SME Development	Relationship of Gender to Poverty Alleviation	Land Rights for Women
	Choice	Poverty Alleviation Methods

POVERTY	Potential Aspects in development of SME	Land Question before Gender	Access to Property Rights as an important condition for empowerment
POVERTY to ENERGY	Need to look at economic empowerment s contributing to reducing energy problem of the poor	Use of local resources for poverty alleviation rather then donations	Pricing and Availability
		Managing Reform path to be 'pro' poor	Market Potential Shared Vision
	Improved Access to Energy is necessary for development	Access	Affirmative Action, Black Empowerment	Affordable access to modern energy
	Affordability of Modern Energy Use	Accessibility of electricity is low in countries Initial cost of Solar Energy System	Energy management and its effects on poverty	To educate the rural masses on economic energy for sustainable management

ENERGY	Focus on alternative sustainable energy sources	The use of Solar Power in sparsely populated areas	Sustainability of a project for Rural Electrification	Social Marketing of Renewables: methodologies co-op between Govt, NGOs and private sector	Practice of producing graphic and audio-visual materials is not enough to support initiatives
ENERGY to GENDER	Inclusion/ coverage of energy and gender issues & concepts in primary and high school curriculum	To introduce Renewable Energy Study at primary, secondary and tertiary institutions	Reason why Renewables are marginalised	We need to have Renewable Energy as a department in government so it will have a budget	Different energy systems
ENERGY to GENDER	Specify how much is spent on biomass	Benefit of Energy to Gender Roles	Gender specific awareness campaign of Solar System	Financing mechanisms for alternatives

GENERAL CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES
The Role of Information Dissemination and awareness creation - not used efficiently	Issue of community participation and consultation when planning and implementing projects/programmes not enough	Sectoral Participants Training Needs	Integrated Approach on Policy issues	Co-ordination
Gender: Efforts of women to overcome cultural bonds & contribute to economic developmentPoverty: Representation of untitled wealthEnergy: Rural Electrification campaigns seen in almost all countries	Information Dissemination, Education and Awareness	Gender: the role of ministries of women and children through energy provisionPoverty: the impact of climate change to rural people at times when they are planning to emancipate themselves from povertyEnergy: the link on how energy availability can directly change the living standards in the rural areas.	Education and Information Dissemination	a) HIV/Aids - demographic of countries e.g. increased orphans who will be/are deprived access to socio-economic amenities b) Impact of HIV/ Aids on women's workload - now have to provide with (additional) care to family 1) as a result of need: explore innovations that are child-friendly 2) Need to revisit local tech. capacity-building - how sustainable it is vs. mortality rates e.g. train 1 person: they are bed-ridden within a short period
The impact of HIV/ Aids can pull down all this if it is not attended to.	Integrated Planning	Networking Renewable Energy	Legislation	HIV/Aids Linkage
Available Resources	Learning from successes and failures	Identify the causes of community projects being unsuccessful	All issues discussed on all 3 are important to the development of our countries	Integrated planning Poverty causes