In 2013, Hivos carried out Socio Economic Survey and Gender Baseline Survey in Sumba, East Nusa Tenggara and discovered that on the average the domestic firewood consumption used in the open stove was 12 kg per day, this is the reflection on how heavy women’s workload in collecting and transporting firewood. The amount of time lost arising due to limited accessibility to modern energy technology has made women to be excluded from the decision making process and thus their opportunities to get better education are slim while education is a key element in human development. Consequently, more women are trapped in poverty. Therefore, enhancement of gender equality and fair accessibility to Renewable Energy are important development activities and business activities which are Hivos and its local partners’ operational focus.

This guideline is a medium for delivering material in training whose objectives are: developing common understanding among the program implementation team staff, NGO partners, and other stakeholders on the importance of social and gender aspects’ inclusion to achieve our goals, encourage the organizations’ commitment to implementing social and gender aspects in the entire project cycle, and provide guideline to staff on applying GALS methodology to promote social and gender equality within the community where they operate. Prior to the conclusion of the training, the staff will be able to understand the importance of social and gender aspects to enable to experience the impacts of the project, able to analyze gender specific issues by using various GALS practical tools and identifying various interventions which include social and gender aspects, able to integrate social and gender aspects into the planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and project learning phases.