In this project, women will be involved in all aspects. During formative research, care will be taken to identify issues around the GEF focal areas that are most relevant to women, and their attitudes towards resource management. This information will help shape the content and characterization of the radio programmes. For the training and capacity development phase of the project, women will make up 60% of the participants. Steps will be taken to ensure that the M&E process has gender-sensitive indicators and involves men and women not as informants but as participants. This will result not only in a better understanding of who in the community has benefited, who bears the costs and what motivates different groups to act.

LetsACT has been a leader in community-based environmental management and social action. The selected approach to knowledge management will ensure that all members of a community play an integral role in the design and implementation of activities. This will include participation in: ? Pre- and post-communication surveys ? Media and communications outreach ? Training workshops ? Monitoring and evaluation ? Policy influencing and policy advocacy evaluation etc

LetsACT will support beneficiaries to develop a plan to help ensure financial sustainability at the end of the programme, create sources of income and promote the participation of other stakeholders in on-going campaigns. Our beneficiaries are in a very real sense responsible for the programme, and it is our goal to build among them an enduring alliance that will enable them to self-sufficiently field future projects they may decide to pursue together. Additionally, at the completion of the programme, LetsACT will begin sustainability planning to identify a key partner that will continue to work with a creative team, in order to continue programmatic work.

LetsACT?s programmatic approach is based on a capacity building model. Other SGP grantees, communities and local partners lead the programmatic work itself, with training and on-going mentorship from LetsACT. Over the course of this project, a host of organizations from several sectors will gain new skills to plan, implement and evaluate various renewable energy programme elements, and launch community ?energy access? schemes. In addition to these hard assets, new partnerships and networks are formed between organizations and stakeholders that enhance work well beyond the scope of this project. To reinforce these gains and new, in-built local capacity, LetsACT will support beneficiaries to develop a plan to help ensure financial sustainability at the end of the programme, create sources of income and promote the participation of other stakeholders in on-going campaigns. Our beneficiaries are in a very real sense responsible for the programme, and it is our goal to build among them an enduring alliance that will enable them to self-sufficiently field future projects they may decide to pursue together. Additionally, at the completion of the programme, LetsACT will begin sustainability planning to identify a key partner that will continue to work with a creative team, in order to continue programmatic work. More broadly, the programme is sustainable through two mechanisms: the local capacity built and the knowledge management system.