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that emerged during high-level stakeholder interactions techniques for robust programme management.
with government officials on the basis of the identified 4. Financial planning and social audits: Government
capacity needs are summarized below.
1. Regular training: Regular short-duration training officials must be trained to carry out prudent financial
management of energy projects to avoid leakage
programmes, refresher courses, and workshops of funds and to ensure better utilization of funds for
need to be conducted for government officials on: human development related activities. Energy projects
(a) general themes of how the state and national must undergo social audits so as to ensure that their
policies converge on energy and human development; human development goals are achieved.
and (b) specific and technical themes such as 5. Collaborations and partnerships: The Central
designing renewable energy systems, generation of government and state nodal agencies must promote
energy from solid wastes, improved cooking systems, collaboration of state departments with technical
conducting energy audits, and carbon certification of institutions, academic institutions, and civil society
energy projects. organizations that work on the themes of energy and
2. Best practices compendium: A compendium of best human development. Simultaneously, government
practices of projects that have successfully addressed departments must have a stronger communication
energy and human development concerns in India and strategy to reach out to these organizations on
elsewhere in the world should be prepared. Projects a regular basis.
with high potential for replication in the Indian context 6. Sensitization of field staff: Field staff in government
must be given focus. departments working on energy and human
3. Monitoring and evaluation: Projects in energy must development projects must be better sensitized on the
have clear indicators related to human development broader mandates of the project. Furthermore, they
and vice versa during the monitoring process. must be made aware of how energy and development
Furthermore, government officials need to be goals specifically interact in the projects being executed
trained on quantitative monitoring and evaluation by them.
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that emerged during high-level stakeholder interactions techniques for robust programme management.
with government officials on the basis of the identified 4. Financial planning and social audits: Government
capacity needs are summarized below.
1. Regular training: Regular short-duration training officials must be trained to carry out prudent financial
management of energy projects to avoid leakage
programmes, refresher courses, and workshops of funds and to ensure better utilization of funds for
need to be conducted for government officials on: human development related activities. Energy projects
(a) general themes of how the state and national must undergo social audits so as to ensure that their
policies converge on energy and human development; human development goals are achieved.
and (b) specific and technical themes such as 5. Collaborations and partnerships: The Central
designing renewable energy systems, generation of government and state nodal agencies must promote
energy from solid wastes, improved cooking systems, collaboration of state departments with technical
conducting energy audits, and carbon certification of institutions, academic institutions, and civil society
energy projects. organizations that work on the themes of energy and
2. Best practices compendium: A compendium of best human development. Simultaneously, government
practices of projects that have successfully addressed departments must have a stronger communication
energy and human development concerns in India and strategy to reach out to these organizations on
elsewhere in the world should be prepared. Projects a regular basis.
with high potential for replication in the Indian context 6. Sensitization of field staff: Field staff in government
must be given focus. departments working on energy and human
3. Monitoring and evaluation: Projects in energy must development projects must be better sensitized on the
have clear indicators related to human development broader mandates of the project. Furthermore, they
and vice versa during the monitoring process. must be made aware of how energy and development
Furthermore, government officials need to be goals specifically interact in the projects being executed
trained on quantitative monitoring and evaluation by them.
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