Archives: Documents
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Gender and energy country briefs – Tanzania
Energy is a critical enabler in reaching development goals. However, the benefits of increased access to modern and cleaner energy services often fail to accrue evenly to men and women. The African Development Bank and ENERGIA recognise the need to prioritise policy action in the field of gender and energy to meet the international Sustainable…
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Gender and energy country briefs – Rwanda
Energy is a critical enabler in reaching development goals. However, the benefits of increased access to modern and cleaner energy services often fail to accrue evenly to men and women. The African Development Bank and ENERGIA recognise the need to prioritise policy action in the field of gender and energy to meet the international Sustainable…
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Pathways to Repair in the Global Off-Grid Solar Sector
This working paper provides up to date information on repair and repairability in the off-grid solar sector for manufacturers, distributors, energy access policy makers and researchers. It outlines the benefits and barriers to increasing product repairability, examines the applicability of new European standards for the off-grid solar sector, and identifies pathways to repairability. The working…
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World Energy Outlook 2020
The World Energy Outlook, the IEA’s flagship publication, provides a comprehensive view of how the global energy system could develop in the coming decades. This year’s exceptional circumstances require an exceptional approach. The usual long-term modelling horizons are kept but the focus for the World Energy Outlook 2020 is firmly on the next 10 years,…
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A virtuous cycle? Reviewing the evidence on women’s empowerment and energy access, frameworks, metrics and methods
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Off-Grid Appliance Market Survey 2020
The 2020 Off-Grid Appliance Market Survey shares key insights on the perceived demand for, and impact of, off-grid appropriate appliances using data collected from 133 industry, policy, and development stakeholders. The survey results reflect the dynamic needs of off-grid consumers and aim to characterize the positive socioeconomic impact of a range of household appliances, productive…
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Off- and Weak-Grid Solar Appliance Market: Sierra Leone
The off-grid appliance market in Sierra Leone is nascent and the availability of off-grid appliances is limited, mainly due to low penetration of SHS kits, limited access to credit for customers and companies, and low disposable household incomes. However, there is a sizeable potential demand for SHS and off-grid appliances to reach the 80% of…
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The State of Access to Modern Energy Cooking Services
How we guide progress toward achieving access to modern-energy cooking solutions for all is more critical than ever before. To date, measurements of access have focused primarily on fuel penetration, overlooking many of the contextual factors that shape users’ adoption of stoves and fuels. Over the past decade, much attention has focused on expanding access…
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Power Equality: Women’s entrepreneurship transforming Asia’s energy sector
This publication examines energy access and the need to strengthen the livelihoods of the poor, especially women, in Asia. More critical today than ever before, as governments prepare to deal with the economic and human crisis that COVID 19 has brought with it, promoting women’s entrepreneurship in renewable energy provides a unique opportunity to achieve…
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Strategic Plan
With this strategy document, we—the ENERGIA network—share what we aim to achieve between 2018 – 2021. We also present how we intend to capitalise on our strengths to scale our collective impact, how we will improve our weaknesses and how we will find solutions to persistent and emerging issues around sustainable energy and equitable energy…
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From insights to action: Gender equality in the wake of COVID-19
The impacts of crises are never gender-neutral, and COVID‑19 is no exception. This publication summarizes data, research, and policy work by UN Women’s Policy and Programme Division on the pandemic’s impact on women and girls, including the impact on extreme poverty, employment, health, unpaid care, and violence against women and girls. The publication also brings…
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Coping with shock: Last-mile distributors and COVID-19