Increase awareness, knowledge and skills of stakeholders to enhance the integration of gender concerns into energy access projects and policies for sustainable development.

ENERGIA has been implementing a capacity building programme aiming to mainstream gender in energy projects. The process is visualised to comprise of the following five steps:

1. E- learning
2. Training of trainers
3. Training packages contextualised to national context
4. National training workshops and action plan development
5. Coaching, technical support and follow-up

Training of trainers

ENERGIA, in collaboration with UNDP Regional Centre in Bangkok, organized a five-day training workshop on ‘Mainstreaming Gender Concerns in Energy Projects’ in October 2007. Participants were expected to take back the knowledge and information into their work situations and to form a core of gender and energy resource people within their countries, who would organise and design national gender and energy training course, with due consideration for the national context. Before coming for the training programme, all the participants of the training programme underwent an e- learning course on basic concepts of gender and energy and came prepared with preliminary action plans.
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National training workshops

As a follow-up of the training of trainers, National Focal Points in four countries -Nepal, India, Indonesia, and Lao PDR- prepared a national training course in 2008. The training material used for each national level training programmes was adapted to the context and needs of that country. The national training workshops all focused on mainstreaming gender concerns into energy projects. The development of action plans to mainstream gender into their own energy project by each participant is a crucial element of the national training workshops. Action plans have thus become important tools for participants to practically implement what they learned at the workshop.
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Coaching

Since the end of 2007, we also offer follow-up e-coaching to selected participants of the regional and national training workshops. We coach these energy practitioners on the implementation of the gender action plans that they developed at the training for their energy projects. From earlier workshops we learnt that there being no follow-up was perceived as a gap and that participants still struggled with implementing their action plans. The coaching has achieved positive results.
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