Energy documents - policy
Practical Action documents on energy policy issues - including the importance of energy access for poverty reduction, and the opportunities offered by sustainable and renewable energy technologies.
Energy policy documents
Africa - left in the dark? Energising poverty reduction in Africa
Four-page version of the full Energising Poverty Reduction for Africa report.
Africa - left in the dark? Energising poverty reduction in Africa
Four-page version of the full Energising Poverty Reduction for Africa report.
Biofuels for transport
Massive and unregulated large-scale production of biofuels would be potentially destructive for the environment, a threat to food security, and will affect sustainable development and the livelihoods of the poor.
Biofuels for transport
Massive and unregulated large-scale production of biofuels would be potentially destructive for the environment, a threat to food security, and will affect sustainable development and the livelihoods of the poor.
Bridging the funding gap to ensure energy access for the poor
Presented at ""Financing energy access for the poor"", a Practical Action event at the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) 15, New York 2007.
Climate change and energy poverty in Africa
An analysis of the interconnecting themes between climate change and energy access for the poor in sub-Saharan Africa
Climate change and the challenge of energy poverty
Climate change mitigation and the ending of energy poverty are not incompatible goals. Governments have the duty to ensure that the poor are able to fulfil their basic needs, including those dependent on energy. At the same time developing countries need support to develop in a carbon neutral...
Energising poverty reduction in Africa: Europe's chance to help light up Africa
This paper, launched ahead of the G8 summit in July 2005, outlines the how African populations are chronically underserved in terms of energy and how this contributes to the poverty crisis facing the continent. It looks at two recent proposals for African development, and considers the current...
Energy access and climate change
The importance of energy access for the poor and its impact on emissions.
Energy enables: building a new energy access narrative
A four-page policy brief to accompany the 2013 Poor People's Energy Outlook.
Energy enables: Building a new energy access narrative
Policy brief to accompany the PPEO 2013
Energy for All 2030: Key elements
Key elements for the analysis of electricity access in Sub-Saharan Africa, review of rate of adoption at planning stages and relation to MDG fulfillment in two reference countries: Ghana and Mozambique
Energy for All 2030: Preliminary Analysis
Preliminary Analysis and Partner Dialogue on the Impacts of the First EU Energy Facility Projects in Sub Saharan Africa.
Energy for all by 2030: Rural electrification
The role of the public sector and collective action on electricity access for the poor
Energy options for the poor in Africa and Latin America: workshop report
In March 2006, Practical Action organised a two-day workshop in Brussels, making a call for decentralised energy options to be at the top of the European Commission's agenda to combat poverty in rural areas of Africa and Latin America.
Energy policy brief
Billions of poor people have not got the energy they need to light their homes, cook meals safely and earn a living. Although the technology exists to deliver universal access to modern energy, a huge effort is needed to make that happen.
Energy poverty: the hidden crisis
International development agencies, donors and governments in low-income countries need to make energy access for the poor a priority if they are meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and eradicate poverty. This briefing paper looks at the existing barriers to energy access and the...
Energy to reduce poverty: the urgency for G8 action on climate justice
This report outlines Practical Action’s experience demonstrating that small-scale renewable energy can provide clean, appropriate and affordable energy in the world’s poorest and most remote communities, helping lift people out of poverty and improving lives. It explains how such technologies...
Energy to reduce poverty: UK Prime Minister's reply
A reply from the UK Prime Minister on climate change, energy and development, reacting to the Practical Action paper 'Energy to reduce poverty: the urgency for G8 action on climate justice'.
Financing energy through the EC
An introduction into the mechanisms for financing energy projects via the EC and an evaluation of the EC Energy Facility as a means of funding small scale renewable energy projects
GATS and the electricity and water sectors
A report by Stephen Thomas and David Hall of the Public Services International Research Unit (PSIRU) at the University of Greenwich, commissioned by Practical Action in 2006.
General agreement on trade in services (GATS): a case for energy sub-sector in Kenya
Consultancy undertaken for Practical Action by Jasper A. Okelo, School Of Economics, University Of Nairobi, April 2006.
How to engage with GATS: Practical Action and service provision for the poorest
This policy document details the concerns we have over the existing GATS process, especially with respect to the most vulnerable sectors: women, indigenous peoples, Dalit communities etc.
Inventory of innovative indoor air pollution alleviating technologies in Nepal
This report can be used by the readers to facilitate their decision making on appropriate choice of technology suitable for their own use of for further dissemination.
Key elements for the analysis of electricity access in sub-Saharan African
Key elements for the analysis of electricity access in Sub Saharan Africa, review of rate of adoption at planning stages and relation to MDG fulfillment in two reference countries: Ghana and Mozambique