Work Packages

Implementation focuses on integrating eCooking into the value chain to reach users as part of place-based efforts to embed GESI in modern cooking services. The action-oriented research approach seeks to activate eCooking initiatives and enrol partners and communities through seed funding initiatives. An initial assessment of eCooking in each country will help to contextualise these initiatives.

Institutional Change focuses on the analysis of the structural conditions that hinder the development of GESI policies and examines the everyday working practices that underpin the governance landscape in the energy sector, highlighting how they reproduce discrimination and exclusion that obstruct progress on GESI. Institutional ethnography (IE) analyses everyday interactions and relations to make visible how things happen. It focuses on the concepts and languages that codify people’s work. IE describes such concepts as part of the ruling apparatuses because they establish accountability circuits that prescribe and control how people interact and work. IE researchers are embedded in organisations and use textual analysis, interviews and shadowing to describe such conceptual apparatus. The IE analysis will help to generate policy dialogues and work with stakeholders to co-create policy proposals to advance GESI in the energy sector.

Capacity building focuses on developing collective skills to support GESI in the shift to sustainable energy and contribute to a just energy transition. This work package will deploy positive action through targeted capacity-building programmes to counter underrepresentation and debunk gender myths. In addition, it will analyse teachers' and learners' perceptions of barriers. Enduring change will require identifying the barriers in current programmes through a comparative analysis of energy studies curricula.