ENERGIA Strategies

ENERGIA is working to mainstream gender into energy policies and energy programmes. We believe that when gender issues are explicitly addressed in energy policies and programmes, better outcomes will be achieved in terms of the sustainability of energy services as well as the human development opportunities available to both women and men.

We therefore focus our efforts, skills and resources around four main strategies:

Capacity Building
This strategy aims to have impacts at the individual level of project managers and policy makers. We want to strengthen their capabilities to design and implement gender-sensitive rural energy access projects and national energy policies.
Gender in Energy Projects/Markets
Through this strategy we aim to have impacts at the project and community level. We are to produce a body of first-hand experiences that show the positive impacts energy access projects/markets have on the livelihoods of poor men and women. The outcomes of these projects will be used to exemplify how such impacts could be multiplied.
Policy Influencing
Our goal is to obtain impacts at the institutional and policy levels. We will be working directly with ministries of energy to influence the content as well as the direction of the national energy policies, so as to make them gender-sensitive.
Networking
This strategy aims to strengthen the energy and gender networking and resources at the regional, national and international level. It builds on the ENERGIA network structure that brings together individuals and institutions with diverse backgrounds across a large number of countries into a collective endeavour to work on gender and energy issues.

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