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Revision as of 09:03, 3 May 2024

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Green People's Energy for Africa
Knowledge Hub

Community-based Approaches

This topic page outlines how the Green People's Energy approaches helped improve the livelihoods of rural communities through energy access and economic perspectives.

Table of Contents

I. Overview
II. Case Studies
III. Publications
IV. Countries

I. Overview

Rural communities often experience poverty due to economic disadvantages. As only 25% of the rural population in SSA has access to electricity, it must be acknowledged that energy poverty enhances this disparity even further.

Due to their remote locations, it is expensive and technically challenging to connect them to the national grid. While renewable off-grid solutions could help bridging this gap, rural communities with low purchasing power struggle to cover the high up-front costs associated with such DRE systems. Modern low-cost alternatives in line with national requirements are required to overcome these issues. Furthermore, improved access to finance can not only help with the purchase but also the local ownership of DRE systems.

In the field of community energy, the aim is to provide off-grid rural communities with energy solutions to increase economic, social and environmental well-being. In this context, “community energy” can be defined as the economic and operational participation and ownership by citizens or members of a defined community in a renewable energy project (IRENA Coalition for Action, 2018). Identifying characteristics are the right of co-determination, managerial or financial ownership in the project as well as direct social and economic benefits for (parts of) the community. Green People’s Energy for Africa therefore works together with political stakeholders and communities to provide support for:

  • Small and medium-sized businesses to generate and use renewable energy
  • Engaging citizens and communities as partners for green energy in Africa, in particular cooperatives
  • Creating job prospects in the energy sector
  • Productive use of renewable energies for improved agricultural value chains
  • Mobilising investment locally

II. Case Studies

The initative helped pilot short-term innovative ideas, building a foundation for taking them to scale. Additionally, it built on cooperation with other programmes, using synergies, implementing efficiently, and anchoring best practices sustainably. You can find examples of these measures in the following projects and case studies:

  • Link to Projects
  • Link to Case Studies
  • Link to KPF Facthseets
  • etc...

III. Publications

  • The GBE intervention in Ethiopia specifically lent itself to the focusing on communities as the strong cooperative culture is characteristic for the east African country. On the nation-wide level, GBE Ethiopia and its partners from the energy- and cooperative-sector have worked on guidelines for cooperative-based mini-grid development. These guidelines point out different ownership- and management-options, including private-sector partner engagement and regulatory provisions that need to be followed for each case. GBE also worked out a financing scheme that could help cooperative-based mini-grid development plans getting off the ground.
    • Financing Concept for Cooperative-Led Mini-Grid Development in Ethiopia
    • Guidelines for Cooperative�Led Mini-Grid-Development in Ethiopia

IV. Countries

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