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A local blackout in Dar Es Salaam. Power outages in Tanzania's capital are often caused by old cables and transformers (Photo: jay grandin, Creative Commons via Flickr)

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Improving Tanzania’s power quality: can data help?

Rural welders use mini-grid electricity to generate income (Photo: Energy Change Lab)

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Power that changes lives: three lessons from a rural energy champion

Among IIED's work on ways to ensure that the benefits of energy systems reach the people who currently lack access to energy are energy labs in Tanzania, explains Ben Garside (Image: IIED)

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Understanding the SDGs: powering Goal Seven

Kaleta Dam under construction in Guinea (Photo: Jamie Skinner/IIED)

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Who should carry the financial risks in large private sector financed hydropower projects?

Esilalei, Tanzania: Teresia Olotai uses a refrigerator plugged into a solar powered micro-grid. Delivering energy access in rural Tanzania could help transform local economies (Photo: Morgana Wingard, USAID, Creative Commons via Flickr)

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How energy can generate growth in Tanzania's rural economy

Solar panels, such as these in Bhutan, are benefiting millions of energy-poor households (Photo: Richard Furlong, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

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Turning up the volume: five insights into aggregating finance for expanding off grid energy investment

Towards inclusive and responsible mining

Facilitating dialogue and collaboration for a fair and accountable mining sector More in this collection

Small-scale miners dry ores in the process of gold mining in Geita, Tanzania (Photo: John Louis/Investing In Gold, Creative Commons)

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Dialogues for a sustainable and productive artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector

Employees work deep within a tunnel at the Nsangano Gold Mine, Mawemeru village in Geita District, Tanzania in March 2015 (Photo: Brian Sokol/Panos Pictures)

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Laying the foundations for a dialogue series on ASM

Working in shifts, an artisanal and small-scale miner in the Western region of Ghana relaxes at the top of a 15m mine shaft reinforced with a wooden 'cage' after several hours of digging (Photo: James McQuilken (@James_McQuilken/j.mcquilken@surrey.ac.uk))

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Ghana: on our way to participatory reform in the artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector

Publications

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Remote but productive: Practical lessons from productive uses of energy in Tanzania

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Moving More Money: Can aggregation catalyse off-grid financing?

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Bridging the gap: how inclusive finance boosts access to off-grid energy

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Off-grid productivity: powering universal energy access

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Planning pro-poor energy services for maximum impact: the Energy Delivery Model Toolkit (Indonesia)

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Using the EDM toolkit to analyse impact: a small-scale horticulture project in Kenya

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Voices from artisanal mining communities in Tarkwa-Nsuaem, Ghana

Article, Jan 2016

Eighteen-year-old Maame Esi Rose, who washes ore to help her and two younger siblings survive, will contribute to the artisanal and small-scale mining sector dialogue in Ghana (Photo: IIED)

Talking mining in Ghana

News, Jan 2016

A proper technological integration would make feasible the implementation of more micro-grids such as this one, pictured, on Chile's border with Bolivia (Photo: Boris Lopicich)

What will speed up the micro-grid revolution?

Blog, Nov 2015

Among IIED's work on ways to ensure that the benefits of energy systems reach the people who currently lack access to energy are energy labs in Tanzania, explains Ben Garside (Image: IIED)

Understanding the SDGs: powering Goal Seven

News, Sep 2015

Companies such as SteamaCo are making energy easier to access in remote villages in Kenya by using 'microgrids' (Photo: Sam Duby, SteamaCo)

Feeding into energy access: data-driven funding

Blog, Jul 2015

The first photograph taken of Earthrise by Apollo 8 in December 1968. The Apollo Programme to Combat Climate Change proposes large-scale public investment and determined political effort from powerful states to take down carbon energy sources (Photo: NASA/woodleywonderworks, Flickr, via Creative Commons)

What should a no-carbon democracy look like?

Blog, Jul 2015

A collection of resources and images relating to the artisanal and small-scale mining sector compiled by IIED (Photos/images: Brian Sokol/Panos Pictures and IIED)

A day of sharing ASM knowledge

Article, Jun 2015

Employees work deep within a tunnel at the Nsangano Gold Mine, Mawemeru village in Geita District, Tanzania in March 2015 (Photo: Brian Sokol/Panos Pictures)

Laying the foundations for a dialogue series on ASM

Project, Jun 2015

Fortunatus Waziri, a driller, works deep within a tunnel at the Nsangano Gold Mine, Mawemeru village in Geita District, Tanzania (Photo: Brian Sokol/Panos Pictures)

IIED to host international ASM day

News, Jun 2015

An illustration mapping the interdependent relationships within the ASM sector (Image: Scriberia)

Illustrating the ASM challenges

Article, Jun 2015

Wang Zhi, assistant production manager of Jiamusi Zhongheng Thermoelectric Ltd, which was built in 1999 to provide 1.75 million GJ annually for Dalkia with an annual coal consumption of 350,000 tons (Photo: Asian Development Bank, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

The flipside of China's shift away from coal

Blog, Jun 2015

Levocatus Saidi Bujiku has been working as an artisanal miner for about two years (Photo: Brian Sokol/Panos Pictures)

Gold mining: the search for common ground

Blog, Jun 2015