Gender Equality Strategy and Action Plan for the Energy Sector.

The development of the Gender Equality Strategy and Action Plan (GESAP) was based on a countrywide consultative process involving various stakeholders. The overall objective of GESAP is to enhance gender equality, social inclusion and non-discrimination in all spheres of the energy sector. According to the National Energy Policy 2019 (NEP 2019), the goal of the energy sector is to enhance socio-economic development. GESAP will help to achieve this goal by ensuring that men and women of different backgrounds in urban and rural areas benefit equally from energy services, job opportunities and investments in the energy sector, implemented during the period 2022-2030.
GESAP is underpinned by the following 5 Strategic Objectives that will help to achieve the overall goal: 1. To increase access to and use of clean energy for domestic and productive purposes; 2. To increase social and gender integration in energy infrastructure projects; 3. To promote equal representation and participation of women as decisionmakers, employees and entrepreneurs in the energy sector; 4. To strengthen institutional capacity to mainstream gender in energy policies, energy programmes and within organisations; and 5. To increase coordination, collaboration and financing for gender equality in the energy sector. The GESAP specifically supports PO10 of NEP 2019, which is on GM in the energy sector, but since gender is a cross-cutting issue, it also cuts across the other POs.