This technical brief provides guidance to development practitioners on how to integrate gender concerns within biogas programmes. It highlights opportunities that exist for the inclusion of women in such programmes, given the socio-cultural and economic disadvantages that women in developing countries face.

Biogas is a renewable energy technology that has the potential to reduce women’s workloads, improve their health, reduce the cost of energy for households, and provide livelihood opportunities for women and men in the community.

Gender mainstreaming in biogas programmes

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