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The TIE-ENERGIA project was one of two COOPENER projects to feature at the European Commission's information day held on 7 October 2005 in Brussels.

[BRUSSELS October 2005] The TIE-ENERGIA

The TIE-ENERGIA project which is working to mainstream gender into energy policy, planning, programmes and projects, and is supported by the European Commission, under the Intelligent Energy - Europe programme 'COOPENER' was one of two projects to be featured at the Information Day held in Brussels on 7 October 2005. Full details of the information day are available here.

The TIE-ENERGIA project is implemented by ETC Foundation and Eco. Consortium members include KuSiNi and Practical Action - East Africa.

The main objectives of the project are:

• to create a critical mass of self-confident women and gender-sensitive men who would engage in changing policies, programmes and practices that affect women's energy choices;
  
• to increase awareness, knowledge and skills of a selected group of development practitioners - planners, policy makers, project implementers - to integrate gender and energy concerns into sustainable development and poverty reduction programmes;
  
• to identify gender gaps in energy-poverty policies and make gender and energy issues visible to a wide audience, thereby supporting national and international
  

The project will be implemented through key activities such as strengthening of Regional Energy and Gender Networks, education and training of 180 practitioners and generate autonomous gender trainers, performing gender audits of energy policies and ultimatively, mainstreaming gender in energy policy.

For more information

Coordinator: ETC Foundation
ENERGIA Secretariat, c/o ETC Netherlands
Tel: +31.(0)33.4326044
Fax: +31.(0)33.4940791
Email: energia@...
Web: www.energia.org

Knowledge communications:
Eco Ltd (UK)
Email: info@...
Web: www.ecoharmony.com

http://energia-africa.org
http://europa.eu.int/comm/energy/intelligent/index_en.html