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Energy access
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Productive uses of energy support sustainable and resilient livelihoods in least developed countries
A new briefing examines how productive use(s) of energy (PUE) can support more sustainable and resilient livelihoods in least developed countries, and offers case studies showing that finance, skills development and dismantling structural issues that prevent uptake are essential to drive demand for and development of PUE
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Building resilience and greening the COVID-19 recovery in least developed countries
Least developed countries (LDCs) are currently dealing with multiple shocks from both climate and COVID-19-related impacts. IIED and country partners have been undertaking in-depth research to explore policy responses to build forward better from COVID-19 from the LDCs’ perspective
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Productive uses of energy: what does it take to stimulate demand?
Off-grid energy systems are increasingly being used to reach less-densely populated rural areas around the world.
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Where’s the capital for homegrown companies? Why energy access investments in Kenya need to go local
The importance of local investments in energy access in Kenya is the focus of IIED's Kevin Johnstone
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Productive uses of energy to jumpstart livelihoods
Stimulating productive uses of energy is critical to catalyse income-generating activities and for the sustainability of energy systems, especially in rural communities
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Getting personal: tailoring support to power up Tanzania’s rural businesses
Drawing on new survey findings, Sarah Best discusses how customising support for small and micro businesses in rural Tanzania could unlock productivity
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Equipped and productive: better financing for community businesses in Tanzania
Principal researcher Ben Garside provides a taster of the growing opportunities for community businesses in Tanzania to use new energy supplies productively to expand and develop their businesses, while discussing the associated financing challenges
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Energy, finance and community business – where is the money?
This online event, on 30 November, explored what mechanisms can enable community businesses and farmers to access the financing they need to grow their businesses by using energy productively
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SUNGAS: Ensuring sustainable energy access in Nigeria
The SUNGAS project brought partners together to ensure access to energy and community-based energy facilities in some of the poorest communities in Nigeria
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How can subsidies accelerate universal energy access?
Access to affordable, reliable and clean energy remains one of the greatest development challenges. This event on Thursday, 22 October 2020 explored the role that subsidies as a form of public finance can play in achieving universal access to energy
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Building green and inclusive energy
As part of a global advocacy programme and network promoting renewable energy access, IIED and partners built a social innovation ‘Energy Change Lab’ that works with pioneers in Tanzania to build an energy system that is sustainable and people-centred
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Calibrating cooking to affect deforestation and violence against women in displaced settings
Cooking activities, deforestation and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) are dynamics that closely interact in displacement settings across the globe. Commissioned by Irish Aid, IIED’s study on cookstoves and fuels examined options for displaced communities in Kigoma, Tanzania, and considered lessons from other countries
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Inclusive and integrated energy planning in Kitui County, Kenya
IIED and partners are supporting the Kitui county government in Kenya to develop an integrated energy plan using our ‘Energy Delivery Model’ approach
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Aggregating off-grid energy solutions to deliver SDG7 energy access
IIED spoke with 23 companies in Bangladesh, Nepal and East Africa that have received financing from three intermediaries or ‘aggregators’. Our analysis shows the promise of aggregating off-grid solutions as a method to attract more financing for energy access
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Working in partnership towards more inclusive Sustainable Energy for All
IIED is actively working with a range of collaborators to raise awareness, secure financing and ensure smart partnerships in order to achieve universal access to sustainable energy, especially for the poorest households
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Energy, finance and community business – show us the money
More ways are emerging to help businesses across sub-Saharan Africa get the energy finance they need to grow – but small businesses in rural communities are still missing out. What are their options?
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Latest IIED podcast puts the focus on energy access
The second episode of IIED's new ‘Make Change Happen’ podcast highlights the importance of energy access as a driver for sustainable development
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Delivering energy access for all: Make Change Happen podcast episode 2
Nearly one billion people are still without access to electricity, and nearly three billion people lack clean, safe cooking facilities. IIED's new podcast focuses on how to deliver sustainable energy access for the world’s poorest
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Accelerating energy access with aggregation
Our ‘Insights’ series highlights links between business and sustainability. Our latest study looks at access to energy, and focuses on the potential for financial aggregation to channel funds to millions of off-grid energy projects
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Inclusive finance for universal energy access
The financing gap for universal energy access (Sustainable Development Goal 7) is persistent and enormous. IIED is exploring how finance instruments and models can be better calibrated to achieve energy for all
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Critical theme: How can inclusive finance accelerate universal energy access?
In order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal 7 – universal energy access – by 2030, the enormous public and private energy financing gap must be bridged. On 14 November 2019, IIED hosted a critical theme to debate the role that investors and finance intermediaries could play to reach SDG7
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Leave no one behind: assessing policy choices
At the heart of the Sustainable Development Goals lies a promise to ‘leave no one behind’. IIED worked with partners in Asia and Africa to ask what the phrase means to different groups and what action is needed to turn it from rhetoric to reality
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Power that changes lives: three lessons from a rural energy champion
Mini-grids are providing rural communities in Tanzania with the energy they need to move beyond powering household appliances, to generating new business and boosting the local economy
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Improving Tanzania’s power quality: can data help?
Ben Garside and Davida Wood discuss whether customer-sourced data can help unpick the problems of electricity supply in Tanzania
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Shining a light on energy consumers in rural Tanzania
Chih-Jung Lee examined what's driving energy use for villagers in Tanzania. In this blog, Lee shares her findings and offers insights to mini-grid developers for meeting diverse consumer demand
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How energy can generate growth in Tanzania's rural economy
A workshop in Tanzania explored how off-grid energy can power opportunities for economic growth in rural communities. Guest blogger Basil Malaki reports back
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Notes from the field – Dlonguebougou, Mali
Returning to the village in Mali she first studied 35 years ago, senior fellow Camilla Toulmin finds three changes remarkable
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Powering local development in Tanzania
New research from IIED and Hivos shows the potential for energy entrepreneurs to scale up productive energy use in Tanzania. But to make it work, funders and policymakers need to provide incentives, support experimentation, and encourage collaboration
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Bringing solar out of the shadows
For Tanzania to meet its energy needs - and in a way that is sustainable - huge levels of finance are required to boost its decentralised energy sector. But the latest research shows current funding flows are way off target.
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Four challenges to powering local economies
There has been remarkable advances in energy access for rural households. But building the wider economy requires energy services that power new jobs and enterprises
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Participatory investment planning for environment, water and energy in the dryland of northern Kenya
Water availability is variable and unpredictable in the drylands, where energy options and ecosystem processes differ from those in more humid environments. These environmental characteristics can have a positive or negative effect on human activities and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Painting a new picture of development
Can the Sustainable Development Goals trigger a new approach to development in the world's Least Developed Countries? A dialogue event explored the potential
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Crucial role of civil society in campaigning for universal energy access
IIED senior researcher Sarah Best focused on the important role of civil society organisations (CSOs) can play in advancing universal energy access when she spoke at the Royal Geographical Society in London.
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What will speed up the micro-grid revolution?
For investors to have greater confidence in micro-grid electricity generation, more attention needs to be paid to ensuring technology operates well in rural communities
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Understanding the SDGs: powering Goal Seven
IIED senior researcher Ben Garside says the Sustainable Development Goal on energy will be a powerful driver for development
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Feeding into energy access: data-driven funding
Data on rural electricity use in unconnected parts of the world could support new ways of funding renewable technologies, providing access to those who need it most
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What should a no-carbon democracy look like?
Halting planetary warming is fundamental. But as we find safe and affordable solutions to our future society's energy needs, how could we build a world that is more equal and more democratic?
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Public and private sectors: delivering energy access for people living in poverty
Representatives from the private and public sectors will meet this week in Brussels to discuss innovations in financing and supporting energy services for people living in poverty, as part of the European Development Days (EDD).
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Sharing the load: who pays for energy access?
Finance for off-grid energy is increasing – the big challenge is working out how best to blend public and private investment to deliver energy services for poor communities
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IIED at European Development Days 2015
IIED researchers and partners will run sessions on economic incentives for fisheries management and delivering energy for poor communities at this year's European Development Days (EDD15) in Brussels. Dr Essam Mohammed, senior researcher in IIED's fisheries team, will moderate a high-level presentation on economic incentives for fisheries management in Bangladesh, and IIED senior researcher Sarah Best will participate in a session on energy access for poor communities
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Off-grid energy powered by the crowd
Crowdfunding provides a potential source of funding to improve access to electricity in countries such as India, but financial regulations are a barrier
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How can we finance sustainable energy for all?
Leading politicians and thinkers are being urged to make sustainable energy available to all. Achieving this goal requires research in how people and communities use energy and how sustainable energy can be financed
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Universal energy access: combining public and private sector efforts
Donors, governments and businesses need to collaborate more strategically to finance pro-poor energy access. This is a key message from a new IIED discussion paper Sharing the Load
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Calling all energy and agriculture experts: meet, talk and collaborate
Many of the 500 million small farms that produce the bulk of food consumed in developing countries have no access to modern energy services. Why doesn't more research and innovation focus on getting energy to them?
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Energy delivery models that work for people living in poverty
Access to modern, safe, affordable and sustainable energy is increasingly recognised as crucial for development. Designing the delivery of energy services that can meet the needs and wants of end-users, in particular those of men and women living in poverty, is a complex task that requires a range of skills (technical, managerial and financial) and cooperation between multiple stakeholders. Equally, scaling up services successfully requires adapting delivery models to different local contexts rather than simple replication or a “one size fits all” approach.
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Improving people’s access to sustainable energy
1.3 billion people have no electricity and 2.7 billion people do not have clean and safe access to energy for cooking. This means that around 40% of the world’s population breathe in toxic smoke created when burning charcoal, wood, coal or animal waste to cook their food.
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Energy equity: can the UN Sustainable Energy for All initiative make a difference?
The Sustainable Energy for All Initiative (abbreviated to SE4ALL) has set three goals to be attained by 2030: 1) ensuring universal access to modern energy services; 2) doubling the rate of improve
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CHOICES: community energy in South Africa
IIED and OneWorld brought local communities in South Africa closer to energy planning processes by exploring the feasibility of community-participation models for delivering rural energy services to communities without electricity in the Eastern Cape
