JAGRITI

Besides cooking, fuelwood is used for heating of room, water
for bathing and for washing. Average hot water requirement
per day per household in winter months i.e for six months is 50-
60 liters. A comparative study of fuelwood consumption in
traditional chullah as against Hamam suggests that to heat 20
liters of water in a traditional chullah takes roughly 10 -12 kilo
of hard wood and time taken is 35-40 minutes whereas, in
Hamam it takes 2 kilo of household litter, crop residue or small
twigs to heat 20 litres of water in 15-20 minutes. So, with use of
hamam for approximately 130 days in a year, a household
saves 1.5 tons of fuelwood.
4. The project has also introduced energy efficiency devices as
pressure cookers.
5. Women's participation and PRI: WSCG's members are
actively participating in the gram sabha meetings. Earlier
women saw their role as only voters and often could not muster
courage to even attend the gram sabha. According to some of
the women members, gram sabha is mainly attended by men
Gender Sensitive Energy
Benefits
Welfare : Lighten the daily
burden of poor women.
Efficiency : Community
cost sharing developing
interest and local
ownerships of actions.
Poverty : Different income
and enterprise based
actions are impacting
livelihoods.
Meeting Millennium
Development Goals
(MDGs) : Expanding access
to modern energy services
for the poor.
as quorum counting is done on the basis of one vote per household. It has been seen that the
presence of women in large numbers in village level bodies greatly influenced to their ability to
lobby & build collective pressure to push decisions in their interest. Several examples have been
cited in the project on how WSCG's members joint representation at panchayat level has made a
big difference in how decisions are made in the gram sabhas. Thus, as a first step 'even the
presence' of women in good numbers produces a favourable impact.
6. The NGO Jagriti has recently won the SEED Award 2008 for entrepreneurship in sustainable
development: The NGO has also established a marketing outlet on Kullu Manali main road as
"Mountain Bounties". This is linked to the women federations and is marketing a range of
products for a total value of Rs. 20,000 per month. This has provided income and empowerment
for the local women in the area. The NGO is actively linking its products with the Himachal
Pradesh Tourism Department through retail outlets in Simla and Manali.
7. Women play their roles effectively, when involved in the decision making processes and given
opportunities centrally in planning the actions, implementing and monitoring the program.
8. Women see women workers as 'great inspiration' in the program, more so when they are
managing and dealing with financial matters and resources.
JAGRITI
Ms. Mamta Chander, Director
Village Badah, PO Mohal
District Kullu-175126
Tel.: 0190-2226537 Fax: 92184-74832
Email: info@jagritikullu.org
Website: www.jagritikullu.org
National Co-ordinator
GEF UNDP Small Grant Programe
CEE Delhi,
C-40 South Extension-II,
New Delhi-49 Ph.: 011-26262878-80
E-mail: sgpdelhi@ceeindia.org
www.sgpindia.org
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