Examples of initiatives to promote gender mainstreaming include the Programme on Gender Mainstreaming in Energy Access (ECOW-GEN) of the Economic Community of Western African States (ECOWAS) and the integration of gender equity and social inclusion objectives, indicators and targets into Nepal’s National Rural Renewable Energy Programme (ECREEE and NREL, 2015; ADB et al., However, effective design of gender-sensitive energy policies requires improving the availability of gender-disaggregated data on energy access and uses. In addition to greater financial support for energy planning, LDCs and other developing countries (ODCs) could also benefit from the development of planning tools appropriate for their national contexts.