How do we get more women on the ballot in new democracies? We introduce and test a new approach: Working with international and local NGOs in the forthcoming local elections in Zambia, we combine classic candidate training, which specifically targets the women, with a networking intervention aimed at the broader electoral context. The networking intervention provides women with points of contact to influential local leaders, trains local leaders to support women in politics, and engages local leaders with potential women candidates. The aim is to encourage women to run for political office by positioning them in local power networks and potentially improving a sometimes-hostile electoral environment. We test the effect of engaging women in political networks in combination with classic candidate training in a field experiment covering 12 randomly selected Zambian districts, encompassing 179 wards, and use informants to identify potential women candidates. The candidates are randomly selected (on the ward level) to receive either no interventions, classic candidate training, or candidate training and networking. We assess the effects as well as the channels of causation through a three-round survey as well as outcome data on eventual party-membership, primary election participation, and candidacy in the 2026 elections among the potential women candidates.