A Case Study - Gender and Workload in Biogas Adoption, Uganda

Heifer International
Hivos
SNV

2013

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This report is an outcome of a case study on gender and workload in the context of biogas adoption. The main question the study sought to address was “What changes have occurred in the workload of men and women and use of freed time (if any) as a result of biogas adoption and emerging narratives on family relations building from these changes. Data was collected from 302 households using a highly quantitative household survey tool designed to provide comparative data on tasks and time spent on tasks while using different cooking energy sources in the before and after biogas adoption disaggregated for men, women, boy child and girl child.

Biogas; Energía de biomasa; Género; Uganda;