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Energy and development: The role of academia in education, research, and technological cooperation for sustainability
No full textOver the last decades, the interest of the international community for the multiple interconnections among energy, environment, and society has widely increased. Today, the close link between energy and development is officially recognized. The 2030 development agenda identifies energy access as a necessary precondition for human and social promotion, as well as an instrumental right to fight poverty. Nevertheless access to sufficient, affordable, efficient, reliable, safe and clean energy is not yet an opportunity for all. In developing countries, the problem is critical, but evidence has also risen in emerging countries and, more recently, even in developed countries. A new culture of energy is needed at global level. Innovative solutions and strategies to match the economic growth with the multidimensional targets of sustainability, including environmental preservation and social inclusion, need to be developed. In this scenario, the academia and the scientific community may play a key role by reshaping and updating their traditional mission, based on education, research, and community outreach, with a vision of the society where the human being is settled back at the center of the stage
The contribution of civil society
No full textDifferent players are required to scale-up access to energy and to achieve the objectives of sustainable energy for all by
2030, bringing their specific contribution to the discussion on sustainable energy strategies for middle- and low-income economies. In Chap. 14, the added value of civil society is discussed thanks to interviews realized with a number of NGOs that are quite proactive in the field of access to energy
An Integrated Monitoring & Evaluation Approach For The Assessment Of Energy Technologies-Related Projects
No full textAn impact evaluation framework based on sustainable livelihoods for energy development projects: an application to Ethiopia
No full textWithin the current global challenges, energy plays a key role for the achievement of basic human needs, socio-economic development, environmental protection and global security. At the light of this interconnection, a proper impact evaluation metric able to assess the main effects of energy projects at local level becomes necessary in order to highlight successful strategies. Relying on the Sustainable Livelihoods concept, this study proposes an Impact Evaluation Framework (IEF) to measure project impact as changes of target community’s livelihoods. First, the IEF establishes a Capitals-Based Evaluation Hierarchy, taking its rationale from the literature: this first step responds to the needs of providing a standard and harmonized structure applicable to different projects. Secondly, the IEF develops a further Five-Step Procedure to respond to the concurrent need of flexibility and customization of specific projects. The conceptual methodology of the IEF might be used at different stages of project design: as a supportive methodology donors use in their programme of funds allocation or as an instrument experts use to quantitatively support their ex-post project evaluation. In the paper, the IEF is presented in the light of this second application and the procedure applied to a real project in Ethiopia. The set of information obtained with the IEF is compared to the final expert evaluation, commissioned by the donor and performed at the end of the project, showing the usefulness of IEF as a supportive methodology in the evaluation process
Global Dimension of Universal Access to Energy
No full textIn Chapter 2 the global dimension of universal access to energy is presented together with some correlations between energy availability and development. Energy is discussed in the framework of sustainability and therefore analyzed based on the three pillars of economic, social and environmental dimensions. Access to energy is also discussed according to the two main challenges of electrification and biomass dependence. Efficiency and the main drivers and barriers toward local integrated renewable energy strategies are also discussed to widen the perspective
"Solar Water Heating system co-design and Do-It-Yourself approach for appropriate technology diffusion: the Médina Training Centre case study"
No full textAn Integrated Monitoring and Evaluation Approach for the Assessment of Energy Development Projects
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