The Green People’s Energy initiative builds on the successful approaches and implementation structures of existing projects. In Zambia, Green People’s Energy cooperates with other GIZ projects including programmes on agriculture and water resource management. The main objective in Zambia is to improve the education and training for decentralised renewable energy systems, and to cooperate with civil society and the private sector.
The project strengthens technical and vocational education, and training in off-grid solar technology, for solar milling, solar pumping and irrigation systems that are used in the agricultural sector. To do this, the project works jointly with existing agricultural and water resource management programmes. Training institutes will be supported in expanding and professionalising their training programmes. Curricula will be developed jointly with the national TVET Authority, and the private sector, in order to complement job requirements in the local off-grid solar sector.
Green People’s Energy will help introduce practice-oriented curricula with a focus on renewable energies at four training centres. Here, 12 teachers and 200 renewable energy specialists will be trained. The project activities will be designed to offer equal opportunities for both women and men. In order to put the acquired knowledge into practice, training institutions will be financially supported in the acquisition of solar power systems.