Organization
M.S.Swaminathan Research Foundation
Mission
The M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation was established in 1988 as a non-profit non-political Trust committed to a mission of harnessing science and technology for environmentally sustainable and socially equitable development. The mission is to link the science with society for sustainable rural development. Since its inception, it focuses on harnessing science and technology options for rural development through pro-poor, pro-women, and pro-nature approach to address the practical problems faced by rural men and women.
Other Organization Type
NGO under Trust
Organizational Expertise
Gender / Womens Empowerment
Technologies & Fuels
Not Applicable
Clean Cooking Activities
MSSRF is working on a project ‘Gender Factor in Political Economy of Energy Sector Dynamics’ supported by ENERGIA, Gender and Energy Research Programme: Building the evidence base for improving energy interventions’ effectiveness by taking a gender approach. This is a five-year programme by the ENERGIA International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy “to generate and analyse empirical evidence on the links between gender, energy and poverty, and to translate this evidence into recommendations for energy policy and programmes. It is being implemented in Nepal and India, with the overall research objective to understand the factors that constrain or facilitate women’s agency in the use of energy in the domestic and market-based production spheres leading to or retarding energy transitions. The partners for this initiative are M.S.Swaminathan Research Foundation and Centre for Rural Technology in Nepal. “How can rural women are empowered to gain access to modern energy services in both production and social reproduction?” This is the question that propels this project aimed at understanding the need for gender analysis of political and economic processes to understand the strategic energy needs of rural women and men, who have experienced marginalization and exclusion in the development of energy infrastructure. The analysis is based on linking energy use decisions in both domestic and market-based production (agriculture and enterprises).
Partnership
Our organisation would like to submit a proposal under the Women's Empowerment Fund IV with an objective of demonstrating how economic empowerment will trigger fuel switching. Through this we would like to generate evidence for fuel switching in a tribal region of India. The planned strategies are increasing opportunities for additional income coupled with access to clean cooking fuels and accessories along with increased awareness. In the Indian context, the government has been pushing the use of clean cooking fuels through a policy and scheme to spread the reach of LPG in rural areas to women beneficiaries who are below the household poverty level. Using this as a backdrop, we propose to undertake this empirical study in the field. This will help to provide inputs to the policy for further improvement.
Regions Operating In
South Asia
Country Based In
India
Address
III Cross,
Taramani Institutional Area
Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600113
Website
Primary Point of Contact
Name: Dr. Rengalakshmi Raj
Title: Director, JRD Tata Ecotechnology Centre
Email: rengalakshmi@mssrf.res.in
Phone: +91-44-22541229
Secondary Point of Contact
Name: Ms. Manjula Menon
Title: Principal Scientist
Phone: +91-44-22541229
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