Capacity Building

Developing training programme and courses

This programme component focuses on the knowledge and skills of network members in the South in order to ensure active Southern participation at national, regional, and international levels. An essential part of this strategy is the development of a gender and energy training programme. This is to be achieved in two stages:

1. Development of gender and energy training material; and
2. Implementation of training workshops.

Development Training Programme

Based on training needs identified by network members in the second phase of the ENERGIA programme, an outline of a gender and energy training pogramme consisting of five training packages has been developed:

• Concepts in Gender and Energy
• Gender and Energy Project Planning, including Particpatory Needs Assessments
• Gender and Energy Policy
• Gender and Advocacy
• Acquisition and Project Proposal Development

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Activity update

• Gender and Energy Refresher Course for Asia Network Members
  The course will be held from 12-23 June 2006 in Kathmandu, Nepal and is organised jointly by the Netherlands Alumni Association of Nepal (NAAN) and the University of Twente, Department of Technology and Sustainable Development. The course is for Asia ENERGIA Network members only.
• Asia Regional Training Workshop on Gender and Energy
  5-7 May 2005, Chiang Mai, Thailand
  The objective of the workshop was to introduce participants to key ideas relating to gender and gender in energy. More...
• Training packages translated to French
  The first two training packages of the gender and energy training programme have now been translated to French. The French versions of the packages can be downloaded from the Resource section of the ENERGIA website. Please follow the link below. More...
• The first two training packages finalised
  ENERGIA is happy to announce that the first two training packages of the gender and energy training programme have been finalised: "Concepts in Gender and Energy" and "Gender Tools for Energy Projects". These two packages can be downloaded from the ENERGIA website by following the link below. More...
• Coopener funding for strengthening ENERGIA Africa Network
  The project "Turning Information into Empowerment: Strengthening Gender and Energy Networking in Africa", funded by the EU under Coopener, has as its main activities: development of gender and energy training packages; conducting three sub-regional training of trainers workshops; conducting 12 national gender and energy workshops; gender audits of energy policy in three countries followed by national advocacy; dissemination of information at national and regional levels. The project started in January 2005. View the fact sheet...
• National Training Workshop on the Integration of Energy and Rural Development Policies and Programmes, Sri Lanka, October 2004
  This workshop was organised, from 15-17 October 2004, by the University of Peradeniya and the Energy Conservation Fund of the Ministry of Power and Energy with sponsorship from UNESCAP. ENERGIA NFP in Sri Lanka, NANEGE, coordinated the workshop. Thirty-seven participants from government ministries and departments, NGOs, the private sector and academia attended the workshop. In the session on gender mainstreaming in energy policies and programmes, Anoja Wickramasinghe examined the concepts of gender analysis and gender mainstreaming, and presented a stepwise procedure for promoting gender-responsive projects, policies and programmes that cut across local, provincial and national levels. The participants found the workshop a stimulating first step in working towards a national strategy for energy integration in rural development policies and programmes.
  For more information contact Anoja Wickramasinghe.
• Gender and Energy Training Workshop
  ENERGIA & Mineral and Energy Education and Training Institute (MEETI), 10 - 15 July 2004, Johannesburg, South Africa
  The goal of the training workshop was to make use of two training modules designed by ENERGIA/TDG in order to support training of development planners and project managers to increase their capacity to bring gender aspects of energy into the planning cycle. This goal was addressed through two components: that of actual training and another for planning of the follow-up plans. The training was undertaken in six days, then participants were guided on how to formulate their action plans while they are at their place of work. ENERGIA will provide backstopping to the trainees in implementing these action plans.
  Final Workshop Report (PDF - 1.8 MB)

• Renewable Energy in Local, National and Global Context with Socio-economic Perspectives
  IRADe, 25 February - 5 March 2004, New Delhi, India
  This international training programme was designed to be of particular relevance for Asia and Africa. It was targeted at a wide range of professionals in governmental, non-governmental, and private organisations. The programme consisted of lectures and discussion sessions on a range of issues including international energy issues, national energy planning, the need for participative approaches, entrepreneurship, and community-based initiatives and gender. Anoja Wickramasinghe, focal point for the Sri Lanka Gender and Energy Network, provided gender inputs.
• Methodology for Participatory Assessment -MPA- of Improved Cookstove Programmes
  Training of Trainers
  ARECOP, 23 February - 2 March 2004, Chiang Mai, Thailand
  ENERGIA sponsored several trainers to attend this training. The trainees will carry out post-training assignments in their own countries. This includes translating gender components of the MPA manual into their national language, adapting its contents to the country-specific situation, and carrying out a pilot project in their country using the MPA methodology.

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