Archives: Toolkit-posts

  • 2. PA Safeguarding Partner training presentation Feb 2024

    This presentation, developed by Practical Action for its partners, serves as a comprehensive training on safeguarding practices. Its primary purpose is to ensure that all staff, volunteers, and delivery partners understand their roles in protecting children and vulnerable adults from all forms of abuse, exploitation, and harm. Language: English

  • Gender and Energy – Agency empowerment

    This presentation, developed by Practical Action under the Sustainable Cookstove Sector Program, introduces an agency-based empowerment training aimed at women engaged in energy-related enterprises. Using the “Tree of Life” metaphor, the training guides participants through self-reflection, goal setting, cognitive reframing, and visioning exercises while recognizing structural conflicts that may hinder progress. Leadership models and behavior-change…

  • Gender Training-Partners

    This presentation, developed by Practical Action, provides a comprehensive gender and social inclusion training designed to build awareness, knowledge, and capacity for implementing gender mainstreaming in development programs and organizations. The training emphasizes gender-sensitive and gender-transformative approaches as essential for equitable, sustainable development outcomes. Language: English

  • PA_WEEK III- WEs Training_module on BDS

    This presentation is developed by Practical Action for the ICS Last Mile Entrepreneurs (LMEs) training under the Women in Energy Enterprises (WEE) initiative. It provides a comprehensive curriculum on entrepreneurship, business development, and clean energy technologies. The purpose is to enhance participants’ skills in business planning, customer care, finance management, marketing, clean cooking technologies, and…

  • ICS LMEs Training Curriculum

    This presentation, developed for ICS Last Mile Entrepreneurs (LMEs) by Practical Action, outlines a comprehensive training curriculum designed to enhance their technical, financial, and leadership capacities, with a specific focus on business development and clean energy product sales. This tool aims to strengthen last-mile distribution networks and foster economic independence. Language: English

  • Empowered Entrepreneur Training Handbook

    This training handbook, developed for the Empowered Entrepreneur Training Program by Practical Action, provides a comprehensive curriculum designed to support energy access initiatives by building women’s leadership, agency, and business skills. The handbook emphasizes interactive learning, context-specific adaptation, and the integration of personal agency with entrepreneurial capacity to foster sustainable impact in communities. Language: English

  • WEEs Recruitment criteria

    This document outlines the recruitment strategy and criteria for Practical Action’s third phase of the WEEK (Women in Energy Enterprises Kenya) project. The purpose is to identify and enroll women entrepreneurs across five counties in Kenya, focusing on clean energy supply and productive use of energy (PUE) in income-generating activities. Language: English

  • WEEK III BASELINE ASSESSMENT TOOL

    This tool developed by Practical Action, helps to gather key demographic, business, and energy product information from women entrepreneurs engaged in the energy sector. The main purpose is to assess participants’ current use and sales of energy technologies (such as solar, improved cookstoves, and biofuels), business operations, financial practices, and aspirations. Language: English

  • WEEK 3 PUE Baselining Tool

    This data collection tool, is designed by Practical Action for mentors and field researchers to assess the productive use of energy (PUE) among smallholder farmers. The primary purpose is to capture comprehensive baseline data on farmers’ demographics, farming activities, market access, energy usage. Language: English

  • WEEK 3 Mentorship Tool

    This document, by Practical Action, is designed as a structured reporting and reflection tool for mentors supporting women entrepreneurs (WEE) in business development programs. Its purpose is to track mentoring interactions, assess specific business gaps, and establish action plans for improvement. Language: English

  • WEEK 3 Entrepreneur Reporting Tool

    This reporting tool, developed by Practical Action, is designed to collect detailed sales, employment, and digital engagement data. Regular data collection across product categories and customer types, including gender-disaggregated employment data and digital strategy adoption, helps monitor growth, assess market reach, and tailor ongoing support for clean energy entrepreneurs. Language: English

  • Tool for Assessing Woman Entrepreneurs and Enterprises on Energy Related Business

    This guideline document developed by Tangsen provides a structured approach for collecting baseline information about women entrepreneurs engaged in energy-related businesses. It focuses on their roles, challenges, energy use, and business performance. Language: English