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Energy services for poverty alleviation in Sub-Saharan Africa: 24 COOPENER projects supported by the IEE programmeExpected and/or achieved results• Local availability of practical energy know-how and increased environmental awareness, which willsubsequently increase and support management action to improve energy efficiency in different areas of theeconomy of the target countries.• Training of trainers programme, implemented by nine one-day training modules in each target country.• Plans for the continuation of the training courses under local guidance (by the participating subcontractors,such as local education institutes) are under development in order to ensure the sustainability of the results ofthe EETT project.• Networking activities aiming to disseminate the approach and methodology of EETT to other sub-SaharanAfrican countries.Lessons learntAlthough the project has not been completed it is possible to draw the following preliminary conclusions:• The process of the preparation of the training sessions is difficult and very time consuming. This mainly relatesto the organisation of the training events, the identification of the trainees and the specification of their needs.• The integration of many practical elements and case studies into the training courses in combination with thehigh motivation of trainees makes the training events itself very successful.• Existing education institutions in Cape Verde, Sao Tome and Angola announced the interest to utilise theresults of EETT as basis for implementation of Energy Management Courses in university/ professional or highschool education.15