Foreword

Introduction

          Overview of the guidelines

          How to use the guidelines

Part A: Energy and Rural Development

1.       Energy situation in rural areas

          1.1     Patterns of energy consumption and supply in rural areas

          1.2     Challenges for improving the energy situation in rural areas

2.       The need to integrate energy and rural development

          2.1     Rural development aspects in energy programmes

          2.2     Energy aspects in rural development programmes

                 2.3     Integration of policies, programmes and planning processes

3.       A strategic planning and management approach

Part B: Integration of Energy and Rural Development Policies and Programmes - the planning process

1.       Overview of the planning process

2.       Building a vision on energy development for rural areas

3.       Analysing driving forces of energy demand

          3.1.    Driving forces of energy demand in rural areas

4.       Description of the baseline situation

          4.1.    Sub-activities in describing the baseline situation

          4.2.    Indicators for determining baseline situation

          4.3.    Decentralized approach to describing baseline situations

5.       Building scenarios

          5.1.    Sub-activities in building scenarios

          5.2.    Types of scenarios

6.       Formulating energy strategies and policies for rural development

          6.1.   Sub-activities in formulating energy strategies for rural development

          6.2.    Strategy and policy options for sustainable energy  development

7.       Developing energy programmes for rural development

          7.1.    Development of programmes at the national level

          7.2.    Development of programmes at the state or provincial level

          7.3.    Development of programmes at district/county levels

          7.4.    Development of projects at village (grass-roots) levels

Part C:  Mainstreaming Gender Issues in Energy Policies and Programmes

1.       Introduction

2.       Strategies for incorporating gender concerns in energy policies

          2.1     Priority to women’s drudgery reduction technologies

          2.2     Focus on cooking as the primary end-use

          2.3     Women’s empowerment through entrepreneurship in energy

          2.4     Capacity-building and networking

          2.5     Tools and methodologies to incorporate gender concerns in energy planning

          2.6     Addressing information and knowledge gaps

          2.7     Financing energy interventions

Part D:  Stakeholders’ Involvement

1.       Introduction

          1.1.    Defining “Stakeholders’ Involvement”

          1.2.    How to involve stakeholders

2.       Stakeholders in energy development for rural areas

3.       Towards a participatory approach to energy development

Part E:  Managing the Planning Process and Its Implementation

1.       Developing the institutional structure

2.       Steps in building institutional capacity

          2.1.    Initiate capacity-building efforts

          2.2.    Formulate an action plan for building national capacity

          2.3.    Implementing capacity-building activities

          2.4.    Establishing mechanisms for monitoring and adjusting the plan

3.       Adopting the integrated planning process

Glossary

References