Under the East Africa Energy Program, RTI and Project Investigator Randall Wood will work to optimize the region’s power supply, increase grid-based power connections, strengthen utilities, and increase the region’s power trade.  We will deploy an adaptive management approach, consistent with USAID’s collaborating, learning and adapting (CLA) approach, to program design, implementation, and management. We will also build on our previous work to increase gender equity in the power sector by promoting women’s leadership, adopting a gender-balanced approach to training, and providing mentoring and coaching to female leaders across the region.