Archives: Toolkit-posts
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Promoting women’s financial inclusion
Project cycle approach toolkit for designing and implementing financial inclusion programs that enhance women’s economic empowerment. Includes sections on strategy, design, implementation, and M&E. Useful for ideas on presentation of women’s financial needs.
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Practical Action Partner Safeguarding Training
This training equips partners with the knowledge and skills to prevent, identify, respond to, and report safeguarding concerns, including abuse, exploitation, harassment, and gender-based violence. It emphasizes safeguarding responsibilities, organizational policies, reporting procedures, and protection of children and vulnerable adults.
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Finding Your Voice: Gender, Energy and Agency-Based Empowerment
A Practical Action training presentation developed under ENERGIA’s Women’s Economic Empowerment Program, guiding participants through agency-based tools including the Tree of Life, limiting beliefs, cognitive reframing, behavior change, leadership styles, goal setting, and action planning to build inner strength and entrepreneurial capacity.
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Gender and Social Inclusion Training
A Practical Action workshop presentation developed under ENERGIA’s Women’s Economic Empowerment Program that equips partners with core gender concepts including equality, equity, mainstreaming, intersectionality, gender roles, and the gender equality continuum, with a focus on moving toward transformative programming that challenges systemic inequalities.
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Business Development Services (BDS) for Women Entrepreneurs
This module strengthens entrepreneurs’ awareness of institutional support mechanisms and service networks. It underscores the role of mentorship, training, consultancy, and market facilitation in accelerating business growth.
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Capacity Building Curriculum for ICS Local Micro-Enterprises
This training guide outlines a comprehensive learning pathway designed to enhance the technical, financial, and managerial competencies of LMEs. It integrates practical exercises, participatory learning methods, and performance monitoring tools to support enterprise growth.
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Empowered Entrepreneur Training Handbook
This document covers a practical training guide developed by the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves under ENERGIA’s Women’s Economic Empowerment Program, equipping women in developing countries with entrepreneurial and agency-based skills to participate in the clean cookstoves market and improve their economic livelihoods.
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WEEK Phase 3 Women in Energy Enterprises Recruitment Framework
This document outlines the recruitment criteria and registration process for women entrepreneurs under WEEK Phase 3. The project aims to strengthen women’s participation in clean energy supply and productive use of energy (PUE) across five target counties. It defines eligibility requirements, including business experience, full-time operation, willingness to attend training and share records, and community…
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Baseline Assessment Tool for Women Energy Entrepreneurs
This baseline assessment tool collects comprehensive data on women-led energy enterprises, covering demographics, household decision-making, business structure, energy technologies sold, sales performance, productive use of energy (PUE), fuel distribution, employment, financial access, and business challenges. It also captures participation in savings groups, access to credit, and future business goals. The tool establishes benchmark data to…
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WEEK 3 PUE Baselining Tool
A field survey form used by mentors in five Kenyan counties (Embu, Kirinyaga, Kitui, Meru, Tharaka Nithi) to baseline smallholder farmers on their farming activities, energy technology use, enterprise earnings, and interest in future productive use of energy (PUE) investments. It also captures gender dynamics around energy decision-making and community group participation.
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Week 3 Mentorship Reporting Tool
This is a weekly mentorship tracking form developed by Practical Action under ENERGIA’s Women’s Economic Empowerment Program. Mentors record basic entrepreneur details, business location, and identify gaps across areas like marketing, financial management, record keeping and digitalization. The form then captures agreed action points for both mentor and entrepreneur, progress to date, lessons learned and…
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Weekly Enterprise Reporting and Monitoring Framework
This reporting instrument supports the collection of consistent enterprise-level data for performance evaluation and impact measurement. It enables evidence-based coaching, targeted support, and improved program effectiveness.