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Expanding women's role in Africa's modern off-grid lighting market : enhancing profitability and improving lives

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Women in Africa are both important beneficiaries and key facilitators of the modern off-grid lighting revolution. Affordable products using technologies like micro-solar power and light-emitting diodes (LEDs) can replace fuel-based lighting – enabling women and men to save money, reduce indoor pollution, and operate their small enterprises with reliable, clean lighting. This article discusses new research from Lighting Africa, in five sub-Saharan African countries. It analyses women's role as both consumers and entrepreneurs and identifies women-specific opportunities in the expanding market for modern off-grid lighting.

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Gender & Development

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Oxfordshire, United Kingdom : Routledge., 2012

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English

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13552074

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Volume 20, Issue 1, 2012, March 2012, pp 145-157

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Gender
Africa
Electricity
Expanding women's role in Africa's
Off-grid lighting

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