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Which is the best approach when working for sustainable energy for all? (Photo: Bernard Polet, via Flickr)
How can we finance sustainable energy for all?
… services to them is much more expensive. This can end up wrecking the financial sustainability of utilities and undermining the quality of the … and the poorest. It was suggested that GCF could help provide working capital for SMEs and use blended finance instruments to do this (public, …
Insight, 15 December 2014
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?
… in technology are already helping businesses absorb a higher level of capital and meet the risk requirements of more conventional investors, … But to have a successful technological integration, regulatory and financial environments need to be properly designed, especially those …
Insight, 24 November 2015
Extractive industry workers are pictured on a beach; a new report recommends that transparency initiatives need to be more inclusive and relevant to local needs for communities most affected by oil, gas or mining projects (Photo: iStockphoto.com/Getty Images)
Transparency: Giving local communities a window on the extractive industries
… countries. Yet this is often limited to groups in the national capital, rather than local community residents and interest groups most … among government and civil society stakeholders, lack of consistent financial support, and lack of meaningful engagement with local …
Insight, 28 May 2014
The Food Change Lab engaged a wide group of voices from people in different parts of the food system in the Fort Portal region (Photo: Nimrod Bagonza)
Mixing more voices into food policy
… of farmers into the market and growing exports of food to the capital and to the wider East African region. Rural Ugandan households … as cash-strapped as ever, and faced with difficult choices to achieve financial and food security. More production is depleting natural …
Insight, 10 October 2016
Eight development experts, including Oxfam GB's Irene Guijt, were interviewed about reimagining development for the Least Developed Countries (Image: IIED)
How are the LDCs defining a new sustainable development agenda?
… that it was important to nurture indigenous knowledge and the social capital of communities at the grassroots and in the front line. It was … He said the challenges faced by the LDCs included getting access to financial resources, reforming regulatory systems and gaining access to …
News, 08 July 2016
Wind farm outside Adigrat, northern Ethiopia.
Scaling up renewable technologies: incremental or transformational change?
… of the region. This is seen by some to be more focussed on raising capital rather than providing energy to its poorer citizens, which in … Renewable Energy Programme financing will provide funding to local financial institutions and demonstrate that hydropower projects are … remain unanswered: Is the public sector prepared to share the financial burden with the private sector? Will the private sector be …
Insight, 08 July 2013
More than 80 representatives of slum-dwellers federations attended the 9th World Urban Forum in Kuala Lumpur (Photo: United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: the World Urban Forum brought together governments and grassroots – what next?
… resilience is about much more than the physical structures: social capital, the bonds that emerge through savings processes (as well as the financial security this provides), and partnerships with local …
Article, 14 February 2018
Market Analysis and Development training course participants (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Bolivia's indigenous peoples drive forest farm innovation to benefit Mother Earth
… switch buyer, and that buyer failed to pay – the lack of operational capital led to demoralisation within the business and almost complete collapse. The structuring and financial separation of advisory 'oversight' assemblies or boards from …
Insight, 25 November 2014
Peñas Blancas Reservoir in Costa Rica.
Costa Rica: Growing money on trees
… ecosystem resources can be better protected if landowners receive a financial payment for taking environmentally-friendly actions on their … broker deals – the crucial backbone of the system. And it gave it the financial resources to kick-start the process by allocating it with a … Biodiversity Fund”, said Ms Reyes. This Trust Fund, created with seed capital from the German bank KfW, the Global Environmental Facility …
Insight, 26 June 2012
Ongoing monitoring of communal toilets has helped to improve design: here, smaller toilets for children are included in adult toilet blocks. Previously children's facilities were in separate buildings and were frequently left uncleaned (Photo: SPARC)
How India's slum and pavement dwellers made sanitation affordable
… by slum dweller organisations. They very often built them too.  The capital costs were mostly funded by local government, with community … – and the organisation must be set up for careful and transparent financial management.   Just as importantly, all of the women, men and …
Insight, 05 April 2015