About the TIE-ENERGIA project

The TIE-ENERGIA project was launched in January 2005, and is supported under grant agreement EIE/04/198/SO7.39677 under "Intelligent Energy - Europe" Programme of the European Community. The project runs until June 2007 (30 months) and is implemented by ETC Foundation and Eco. Consortium members include KuSiNi and Practical Action - East Africa.

The acronym TIE-ENERGIA stands for "Turning Information into Empowerment: Strengthening Gender and Energy Networking in Africa". The overall aim of the project is to ensure that gender is integrated into energy issues in Africa by strengthening the human and institutional capacity within and beyond the Africa Gender and Energy Network.

The Coordinator of the project, ETC Foundation (ETC) in the Netherlands hosts the International ENERGIA Secretariat and has the mandate of International Focal Point within the Network. As the ENERGIA Network is an informal network, ETC provides the legal and fiduciary entity within which the Network's activities are funded and managed.

See the presentation summary here (212 KB). A fact sheet on the project is available here (182 KB), and the project's poster can be downloaded here (420 KB).

Project Objectives

• build up a body of people capable of influencing policies and practices that affect women’s energy choices,
• increase awareness and skills among selected development practioners so they can integrate energy and gender concerns into wider sustainable development programmes
• identify gender gaps in existing policies and then advocate and disseminate gender and energy issues in order to influence energy policies and programmes

Project implementation

• national trainers, preferably belonging to the national Focal Point or the national ENER-GIA networks in the twelve countries, will be involved in work package 1,
• the national Focal Points in all twelve countries will be subcontracted by the regional Focal Point (subcontractor ITDG-EA) to implement work package 2,
• approximately 15 national network members in all 12 countries will participate in the na-tional training workshops in work package 2,
• the national Focal Points in Kenya, Senegal and Botswana will be subcontracted through the Regional Network Coordinator (subcontractor by ENDA) to implement work package 3.

Work packages

• Identifying trainers from 12 African countries and training them as gender and energy trainers, so that they could in turn train and support a group of development practitioners in their own countries.
• Identifying and training a group of practitioners through training workshops in each of the twelve countries.
• Carrying out gender audits in three of the twelve countries - Kenya, Botswana and Senegal - to identify gender gaps in energy policy.
• Holding policy-level workshops in the three countries to present the recommendations for en-gendering energy policy
• Disseminating the information on activities and findings of the project within and across the countries and to a larger audience regionally and globally through printed, audio-visual and electronic media, by a variety of means such as newsletters, websites, conferences, meetings, exhibitions, etc.
• Undertaking special dissemination activities in cooperation with the European Commission

TIE-ENERGIA project outputs

Final Technical Report (894 KB)

• Training Modules
• Training of Trainers
• Gender Audits
• Resources
• Workplan

Press Releases

• A press release from the Ghana News Agency in July 2006 can be seen here (50 KB)
• A press release from the Swazi News in September 2006 can be seen here (243 KB)
• A press release from the Zambia Daily Mail in January 2007 can be seen here (117 KB)