Peace Corps Regional ECPA Workshop

Peace Corps Regional ECPA Workshop

With support of funding through Peace Corps’ agreement with the State Department on the Energy and Climate Partnership for the Americas (ECPA) a week-long workshop was held April 16-20 in Costa Rica for 20 staff from El Salvador, Costa Rica, Paraguay, Suriname, Guyana, Peru, Nicaragua, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, and Panama focused on micro-financing for renewable energy.

The workshop objectives were:

• record at least three lessons learned, or best practices from other posts or workshop facilitators that will improve the impact of the ECPA program in country;
• be familiar with new training materials, both generated in PC/W and at post, that will enhance training of Volunteers and HCNs at their post;
• identify and compare the benefits and challenges of micro-financing options for renewable energy technologies (cookstoves, biodigesters, and solar energy, etc.);
• develop an action plan, for implementing micro-financing strategies in country, including target technologies, cooperating organizations, support for sector sustainability, and target country outcomes.

Contact Person and Information:
Heather Zissler
Programming and Training Specialist for the Inter-America Pacific Region
hzissler@peacecorps.gov