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A woman carries a Nile perch landed at Got Kachola, Kenya, where the NGO Renewable World is establishing community-run energy hubs for fish chilling and other local energy needs (Photo: Sarah Best/IIED)

Four challenges to powering local economies

Insight, 12 September 2016

A community discusses water and energy challenges in Alango, Kenya (Photo: Ibrahim Jarso, Resource Advocacy Program)

Participatory investment planning for environment, water and energy in the dryland of northern Kenya

Archived Project

Mobile phones being sold in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Access to information and new technologies will be key to help delivering transformational change to the world's poorest countries (Photo: ConDev Center, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Painting a new picture of development

News, 17 June 2016

Villagers in Chitral protest about unreliable electricity supplies (Photo: Ground Report, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Crucial role of civil society in campaigning for universal energy access

News, 16 March 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?

Insight, 24 November 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, 24 September 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

Insight, 14 July 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?

Insight, 13 July 2015

South Africa: Anna with friends and family in front of her new solar water heating system. It is often more cost-effective to provide energy services to poor communities via off-grid sources (Photo: Abri le Roux, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Public and private sectors: delivering energy access for people living in poverty

News, 04 June 2015

A community-based green energy project: Sinteyo and the women's group with solar panels at the greenhouse in Isiolo, Kenya (Photo: Annie Bungeroth/CAFOD)

Sharing the load: who pays for energy access?

Insight, 29 May 2015

Fishermen from Mayadip Island, Bangladesh. IIED will be discussing Bangladesh's work on payments for sustainable fisheries at the EDD15 forum (Photo: Matthew Becker, the Advocacy Project, Creative Commons via Flickr)

IIED at European Development Days 2015

Event on 03 June 2015

A vendor in India uses energy produced by a micro-grid funded by SunFunder (Photo: Sameer Halai/SunFunder)

Off-grid energy powered by the crowd

Insight, 09 April 2015

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?

Insight, 15 December 2014

Low-cost solar lanterns enable a boy to study at home in the small village of Shidhulai in the Natore District of northwestern Bangladesh (Photo: G.M.B. Akash/PANOS)

Universal energy access: combining public and private sector efforts

Insight, 30 September 2014

Renewable energy has a place to play in providing energy access to small farms (Photo via Google reuse rights))

Calling all energy and agriculture experts: meet, talk and collaborate

Insight, 29 April 2014

Collecting water from a solar-based purification system supplied by CAFOD. Chila Union, Mongla District, Bangladesh. Photo: Photo: Paula Nyunt / CAFOD

Energy delivery models that work for people living in poverty

Article, 13 September 2013

A girl studies under the light of a rechargeable solar lamp

Improving people’s access to sustainable energy

Active Project

Closeup of the flame of a small oil lamp.

Energy equity: can the UN Sustainable Energy for All initiative make a difference?

Insight, 29 March 2012

Group of standing and seated people pose for a photo

CHOICES: community energy in South Africa

Archived Project

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Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL)

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Renewable energy