On 4-5 June, Vickie Healey, Project Manager of the Clean Energy Solutions Center, participated in a high-level, two-day regional gender and energy workshop organized by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ECREEE) and the ECOWAS Department of Social Affairs and Gender in Dakar, Senegal. The major accomplishment of this productive workshop was validation by the countries of the ECOWAS, represented by the Ministries of Energy, of regional policy to increase women’s public sector participation in energy-related technical fields and decision-making positions and ensure that women and men have equal opportunities to enter and succeed in energy-related fields in the private sector. The workshop was attended by over 80 participants. It brought together distinguished officials, including the ECOWAS Commissioner for Energy, Dr. Morlaye Bangura; the Executive Director of ECREEE, Mr. Mahama Kappiah; UN Women Regional Director for West and Central Africa, Dr. Josephine Odera; the UNIDO Country Representative in Senegal, Mr. Victor Djemba; Mrs. Aminatou Toure, representing the Minister of Energy of Senegal, Mrs. Maimouna Ndoye Seck; Mrs. Khady Gassama, representing the AfDB Special Envoy on Gender, Mrs. Geraldine Moleketi-Fraser; and Ms. Olga Martin, representing the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development. The Solutions Center is providing support to this policy through it Ask an Expert policy advice service.