A new manual designed to support organisations in empowering women micro-entrepreneurs, small enterprise owners, and sales agents who work in the household energy sector, is now available.

Developed by the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, the Empowered Entrepreneur Training Handbook provides curricula and tools for six days of business skills, empowerment, and leadership training. It is designed to support organizations who are currently working with (or plan to work with) women entrepreneurs and sales agents in the provision of household energy technologies.

GVEP wrote the business training section of the Handbook, which delves into basic business management, with activities training covering Marketing and Customer Care, Costing and Pricing, Financial Planning and Management, and Business Growth and Expansion. GVEP drew on its direct experience of providing this type of training when authoring the materials.

The gender empowerment sections of the manual are based on methodologies developed and tested by a team at Johns Hopkins University.

While the Handbook is designed to empower women to scale adoption of clean cooking solutions globally, it has applicability throughout the household energy sector.

Download the Empowered Entrepreneur Training Handbook here.
 

To download the accompanying HCD Workbook, that guides trainers through the process of preparing a customised training approach using Human-Centered Design principles, please click here.