National Action Plan for the Policy for Gender Mainstreaming in Access to Energy.

This National Action Plan (PNA) is an opportunity to pursue the development of the energy sector, which promotes equality and social inclusion, improve economic well-being and ecological sustainability in order to promote gender equality. This will allow achieving universal energy access by 2030, as established by the Government, creating a gender mainstreaming framework that leverages the role of women as users, community members, entrepreneurs and policy makers in the energy sector. The strategic objectives and targets of the Regional Policy for Gender Integration in Access to Energy, as adopted in 2017, are: 1. Achieve a widespread understanding of energy and gender considerations at all levels of society; 2. Ensure that all energy policies, programmes and initiatives, including major energy infrastructure and investments, are non-discriminatory, inclusive and gender balanced, and aimed at addressing inequalities, in particular energy poverty, which differentially affect men and women; 3. Increase the participation of women in the public sector in energy-related technical areas and in decision-making positions; 4. Ensure that women and men have equal opportunities to enter and succeed in energy-related fields in the sector private; 5. Establish and implement a gender-responsive monitoring, accountability and review framework for Goals 1 to 4.
The objectives of the ECOWAS Directive on Gender Assessment in Energy Projects are: (a) Ensure that the specific interests of men and women, as stakeholders, are considered in project development; (b) Ensure that any potential adverse and discriminatory impacts on women or men arising from projects are recognised, avoided or mitigated to the extent possible; (c) Improve transparency in planning and implementation processes, to promote and increase the participation and capacity of women and men, including, but not limited to, clients, employees, directors, investors, employees and other stakeholders; and, (d) Ensure compliance with the Republic of Guinea-Bissau's obligations under this Directive, while imposing the lowest possible financial and administrative barriers on promoters, the Competent Authority and other interested parties.