Capacity building through practical training programmes

Panel: Panel 2: Incentives and instruments to achive greater

Author:
Trond Dahlsveen, ENSIÙ - Energy Saving International AS

Abstract

Capacity building is focused in Norwegian collaboration with central- and eastern Europe and the CIS; Energy Auditing, Business Planning and Management skills. Content and results will be presented.

The demand for increased energy efficiency in central and eastern Europe and the CIS is well known and accepted. The theoretical skill of people being involved in the energy efficiency field are very good, they have a lot of information about technical solutions and possibilities. However, still the visible results are very limited. Why ? One very important reason is the lack of practical know-how and experience.

Local capacity building through practical training programmes is an absolute necessity to achieve increased energy efficiency in a big scale. Development of skills how to technical, economic and financial; evaluate, develop and implement real projects is crucial (Energy Audits, Business Plans and Management skills).

Based on more than 20 years of experience, Norway has developed methods for organising and implementing projects in an efficient and profitable way. This knowledge, including practical tools and training material is found very interesting for other countries.

Hence capacity building is focused in the Norwegian collaboration programmes with countries in central and eastern Europe and the CIS.

When organising training programmes, use of interactive training has proven to be a very efficient way of learning (Mixture of lectures, examples, exercises and practical homework to be presented and discussed in the sessions).

To ensure efficient training and proper quality of the work, our practical oriented project tools has also been very popular and useful.

This paper describes the basic content of these Norwegian collaboration programmes, and results from successful implementation of training and education programmes in several countries during the last six years.