Gender analysis of renewable energy in India: present status, issues, approaches and new initiatives
This report is primarily addressed at policymakers and others concerned about gender and energy issues in India. The ministerial structure as it relates to energy in India is given as an appendix for the benefit of readers both within and outside India. Typically, a gender audit exercise is carried out by experts at the organisational level. The present gender analysis exercise is different from such other exercises in its approach and methodology in that it tries to look from the other side of the prism and brings energy expertise to tackling directly the question, at the macro-economic level, of how much investment and imports at the national level are addressed directly at women