September 2016 - Sustainableenergy

Accelerating Clean Energy in West Africa: Climate change is felt worldwide, and in already vulnerable countries the consequences are particularly severe. In spite of the challenges West African countries are committed to the climate agenda. In the newly launched SustainableEnergy project “Accelerating Implementation of Regional Policies on Clean Energy in West Africa”, CSO partners are…

Model for none-grid electrification: Mrs. Onyangos dream has come through. There is electric light in her house. She can listen to the radio and charge her mobile phone. A Solar Home System (SHS) has been installed in her home and she pays back 0,5 USD a day to the provider through the pay-as-you-go system (a…

Youth Baton has reached more than 50.000 youths in the 4 countries The youth project #YouthBaton implemented by SustainableEnergy in cooperation with Umande Trust (Kenya), MFC (Mali), CEAS (Burkina Faso) and Livaningo (Mozambique) is now completed. The project explored new ways of engaging in meaningful campaign partnerships between estab-lished national NGOs and smaller youth groups.…

Travel plans for the SE team the next 3 months: In mid September we are visiting Kisumu in Kenya to meet up with the program coordinating committee of the DaCCA program. On the agenda is an assessment of early progress of the newly approved climate projects and joint discussions with local county authorities on how…