This article reviews the status, challenges, and prospects of ongoing and planned power sector reform in eastern and southern Africa, with special emphasis on the implications for the poor. Reforms have improved generation capacity as well as financial performance in certain utilities.
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Source: Energy Policy, African Energy Policy Research Network
Date: January 2002
This document summarizes Mali's plan to invest in renewable energy—primarily solar, hydropower and biomass—to provide electrification to rural areas.
Source: African Development Bank
Date: September 2011
The Renewable Energy Toolkit (REToolkit) provides a set of tools to assist in improving the design and implementation of on-grid, mini-grid, and off-grid renewable energy projects.
Source: The World Bank
This report details the project design and results of Uganda's Energy for Rural Transformation Project.
Source: World Bank
Date: December 2009
This database provides global information on renewable energy, energy efficiency, and climate change, including country energy profiles, a list of key global stakeholders, policy and regulatory overviews, an energy and climate change glossary, a clean energy Web search, geobrowsing features, and
Source: Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP), Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21)
This paper examines energy poverty in Nigeria, including funding sources, political interest and policy implementation.
Source: International Centre for Energy, Environment & Development
Date: October 2012
This report presents background on the energy sector in Sub-Saharan Africa and overviews select energy interventions, evaluating them according to seven criteria for success.
Source: Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH
Date: July 2007
This report explores how Ethiopia could better meet rural energy needs by mainstreaming decentralized renewable energy options into its development planning process.
Source: Stockholm Environment Institute
Date: September 2013
This report documents the financial resources and tools that the European Commission has deployed to support sustainable energy development abroad.
Source: European Commission (EC)
Date: June 2014
This video shows a panel hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) on women's access to water and clean energy in Africa.
Source: Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
Date: April 2014