Toolkit theme: Agency And Leadership

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.

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.

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.

Guides women entrepreneurs to recognize themselves as leaders through group discussion and a “Tree of Life” reflective exercise that connects their past experiences, present strengths, and future hopes to build lasting self-confidence.

An introspective, activity-based session that guides women entrepreneurs to recognize themselves as their own greatest resource by mapping their identity, skills, and networks through the “Bird in Hand” exercise, identifying personal strengths through reflective writing, and applying a practical four-step problem-solving framework to real business challenges, building the self-confidence and critical thinking skills needed to…

A three-module training developed by ENERGIA and Energy4Impact that equips participants with foundational knowledge of gender equality, women’s economic empowerment, and practical leadership skills including public speaking and change management strategies to help them challenge gender-based barriers in their organizations and communities.

This module is a year-long advanced curriculum for experienced women entrepreneurs covering four progressive topic areas delivered monthly, including business planning and analysis, finances for growth covering capital and credit, risk management and mitigation strategies, market expansion through cooperatives and new networks, and personal branding to help women scale their businesses with greater financial sophistication…

This document includes a 12-module, year-long training framework delivered monthly by Business Development Associates in local dialects to women entrepreneurs in last-mile communities, covering networking, record keeping, goal setting, sales, problem-solving, personal agency, marketing, financial management, product knowledge, and leadership to build the skills needed to grow sustainable clean energy businesses and combat energy poverty.

It is a practical training program for women entrepreneurs that covers the gender approach and sociocultural inequalities, women’s economic empowerment in the Senegalese context, leadership definitions and styles, essential leadership qualities, real-world case studies on navigating community resistance to change, and public speaking skills to help women become confident, effective leaders in their communities and…

A practical training by Ibrahima NGOM that guides speakers through seven key challenges, including self-confidence, audience previsualization, eye contact, gestures, intonation, vocal modulation, and speech structure, equipping women entrepreneurs with the skills to communicate persuasively and confidently in any public setting.