The Guidelines was prepared to provide basic parameters, frameworks, lessons learned, and best practices in improving energy resiliency among APEC member economies. The Guidelines promote the building of sustainable and resilient communities (thematic thrust of APEC 2015), which will coalesce with the international call for energy security and a cleaner, safer and more bio-diverse environment. It endeavors to become the take-off point from where APEC member economies can identify, design, and implement energy resiliency measures applicable to their respective conditions and circumstances. It aims to provide a practical framework on improving off-grid energy resiliency for policy-makers, implementers of programs and projects, local government units, private players in the energy sector as well as non-government organizations (NGO’s) and local communities.