Ishara Mahat
Post-doctoral fellow
Research Interests
I am a development practitioner with a particular interest on social change and indigenous development in the developing world.
My research in the past has been on gender and alternative energy technologies, rural energy and poverty, and issues relating to women’s empowerment in Nepal. I have also conducted a participatory research in rural Thailand focusing on indigenous skill of rural women for promoting rural enterprises. My present research highlights on the deprivations of energy poverty and how that affects on human development particularly the well being of rural mountainous women in Nepal.
Publications (past 7 years)
Refereed Publications
Mahat, I. (2006) Gender and Rural Energy Technologies: Empowerment Perspectives, A Case Study of Nepal, Canadian Journal of Development Studies, Vol. XXVII (4) pp. 531-550.
Mahat, I. (2004) Rural Energy Planning and Policies in Nepal: Gendered Perspectives, Resources, Energy and Development (READ), Vol.1 (1) pp. 19-41.
Mahat. I (2004) Implementation of Alternative Energy Technologies in Nepal: Towards the Achievement of Sustainable Livelihood, Energy for Sustainable Development (ESD), Vol. 8 (2) pp.5-12.
Mahat, I. (2003) Rural Energy Technologies: Towards The Empowerment of Women, A Case Study of Kavre District, Nepal”, in Storey, D., Overton, J., and Nowak, B. (Eds.) Contesting Development: Pathways to Better Practice Proceedings of the Third Biennial Conference of the International Development Studies Network of Aotearoa New Zealand, Massey University, 5th–7th December 2002, pp.132-138. [online]
Mahat, I. (2003) Women Development in Nepal: The Myth of Empowerment, Development in Transition, Volume XVIII, 2003, PRAXIS, The Fletcher Journal of International Development, Medford USA, pp.67-72.
Other Publications
Mahat I. (2005) Alternative Energy and Women in Rural Nepal, LEISA Magazine, Vol 21 (1) pp28-29. [online]
Mahat I. (2003) Gender Dimensions in Household Energy, Boiling Point, 49, ITDG, UK. pp. 27-29. [online]
