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The Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC), Nepal, provides an important real-world example that illustrates the role that governments can and do play in spawning technological development for socio-economic benefits, including addressing social and gender equity issues related to differential access to energy-based technologies.
The AEPC is a special case as an institution in the energy sector, because it attempts to address social and gender equity considerations in the development of the renewable energy sector in Nepal and in the delivery of renewable energy technologies and services to rural communities.
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Constituted under the Local Self-Governance Act, 1999. Section 12.
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Statements made by Rudra Khanal, Assistant Director AEPC and head of the GESI unit, in an interview with the author conducted at the AEPC headquarters in Kathmandu, Nepal, in March 2013.
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Mohideen, R. (2020). Gender-Inclusive Energy: The Nepal Case. In: Women and the Energy Revolution in Asia. Palgrave Pivot, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0230-9_4
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