1. Gender Statistics and affordable sustainable modern energy for all.
Annual Gender Statistics Forum, on 14th November 2017 Hotel Africana, Kampala By
Peter Opio
Director, Business and Industry Statistics
Uganda Bureau of Statistics

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Outline
Background
Mainstreaming Gender statistics in the NSS
Challenges
Conclusion

3. Gender Statistics Gender is a new concept.
The idea of equality of the sexes has a relatively short history.
Gender statistics
Refers to the collection and compilation of sex-disaggregated data on various socio-economic phenomena,
so as to be useful for the gender analysis, planning and development.
Socio-economic phenomenon is Energy

4. Gender Statistics
Sex rather than gender is used for classification of data because the respondent’s sex is easy to identify in censuses and surveys and
gender differences can be to a great extent captured through sex differentials.
Gender statistics are designed to illuminate the conditions of women as well as men in order to:
generate awareness of the present situation,
guide policy,
mobilize action and
monitor progress towards improvement and to reveal the issues that need to be confronted

5. Energy and Gender -1
Of the sustainable development challenges facing the world today and Uganda,
none is more cross-cutting and deeply embedded in our daily lives and livelihoods than energy.
Energy is the life blood of our civilization.
The well-being of our people and economy and the health of our environment depend on:
safe, clean, secure, sustainable and affordable energy.

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Energy and Gender - 2
The energy challenge is characterized by its:
poverty and environment dimensions.
Today some 1.1 billion people lack access to electricity and
some 2.9 billion people rely on unsustainable biomass for cooking and heating. (

7. Energy Sector in Uganda - 1
The energy sector in Uganda comprises of both:
traditional and conventional energy sources
that are either locally produced or imported.
The most prevalent used energy sources that are locally produced are fuel wood and charcoal.
Other energy sources that are in use include:
petroleum products,
electricity and
renewable energy sources.

8. Energy Sector in Uganda - 2
Uganda is predominantly agriculture based, and the use of solid fuels is widespread.
Solid fuels include:
charcoal, wood, straw, shrubs, grass, agricultural crops, and animal dung.
The use of solid fuel in Uganda is almost universal, with 96 percent of households using solid fuel for cooking

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Sustainable Development Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
The SDG has 3 targets:
7.1: By 2030, ensure universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services
7.2: By 2030, increase substantially the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix
7.3: By 2030, double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency

10. Sustainable and Modern energy for All by 2030
Modern energy sources include:
Hydro – Electricity
LPG – Gas
Solar
Improved cooked stoved – biomass
Others - biogas

11. Affordability and sustainability
In 2012 ERT report, 15 per cent of the population were established connected to the national grid power supply unit.
In 2014 NPHC, 20% of the households had access to electricity.

12. Affordability and Sustainability
Efforts have been put in place to enable Ugandans afford clean energy especially in rural areas by Rural Electrification Agency and
through SACCOS that provide solar loans through various banks in Uganda.
With the current poverty levels in the country at 27 percent (UNHS 2016),
affordability and sustainability is still a big challenge among households especially in the rural areas.
Disaggregation by Gender perspective is also a challenge

13. MAINSTREAMING GENDER AND ENERGY STATISTICS
UBOS conducts surveys that incorporate gender and energy statistics mainly through two ways:
Censuses and surveys
Stakeholder meetings are usually held to review and incorporate new questions in the data collection instruments.
Depending the resource envelop, some indicators can be included in the instrument - Disaggregation

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Censuses and Surveys
UNHS - information on Household main type of fuel used for lighting and cooking by gender; cooking technology
UDHS- One of the Characteristics is Energy used for Cooking and Lighting by Gender
Population and Housing Censuses
Targeted Surveys e.g. Energy for Rural Transformation Survey, 2012 – provides updates on electrification rates – rural/urban

15. Energy used for cooking by sex of household head (UNHS 2016/17)
Traditional Energy fuels used for cooking

16. Energy used for Lighting by sex of household head (UNHS 2016/17)
Modern Energy sources begin appearing in lighting

17. ENERGY USED FOR COOKING AND LIGHTING

18. ENERGY USED FOR COOKING NPHC 2014 – CHARCOAL
Female Headed Households
Male Headed Households

19. ENERGY USED FOR COOKING NPHC 2014 – FIREWOOD
Male Headed
Female Headed

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Electricity use for lighting among households(NPHC 2014) by Household head
Female Headed
Male Headed

21. Gas use among households(NPHC 2014) by Household head
Female Headed
Male Headed

22. CHALLENGES OF GENDER AND ENERGY STATISTICS
Gender data is limited and needs further disaggregation by sex
Limited data on affordability
Limited data on sustainability

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CONCLUSION
There exist established methodologies for compilation of both Gender and Energy statistics
but more work needs to be done on engendering energy statistics.
The statistics help monitor progress towards improvement and achievement of modern energy as per SDG 7 targets.

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