Foundation Plan for Establishing a Gender-Just Energy Cooperative

Region
Sub-Saharan Africa
Sectors and Themes
Energy
Scale
National
Expertise Level
Generalist
Practitioner
Resource Type
Guidance and Frameworks
Language
English
Developer or Source
Action for Rural Women's Development (ARUWE)
German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
Oromia Coffee Farmers' Cooperative Union (OCFCU)
Women Engage for a Common Future (WECF)

Access to clean electricity and cooking technologies remains a key challenge in sub-Saharan Africa, as it is often difficult to reach remote populations with a centralized power grid. The necessary transformation of the energy system requires the expansion of decentralized and equitable systems that put citizens* at the center and address problems in the conventional energy sector. Energy cooperatives are a possible solution to the existing challenges and offer economic, social and environmental benefits.

As part of the Green Citizen Energy for Africa program of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), we have partnered with Action for Rural Women’s Development – ARUWE (Uganda) and the Oromia Coffee Farmers’ Cooperative Union – OCFCU (Ethiopia) to share knowledge and experience and promote the development of energy cooperatives. The activities of the alliance have resulted in this start-up plan, which summarizes information on ideas, processes, and methods for establishing energy cooperatives in Uganda and Ethiopia. The publication is based on Germany’s extensive and successful experience with citizen energy, which has become the backbone of the energy transition, and on the extensive cooperative tradition in Uganda and Ethiopia, where agricultural cooperatives play a key role in the local economy.

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