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Last Mile First: Maximizing the impacts of energy access across the SDGs
Overview
Documentation of the partner working session "Last Mile First". 2nd May 4pm-5.30pm during the SEforALL conference 2018 in Lisbon organised by ACCESS coalition, CAFOD, IIED, ODI, SNV
This participatory session explores the market activation and provision of energy services for productive and community uses to enable resilient and inclusive local development. Using evidence from government, CSO and energy businesses on their approaches to integrated planning and delivery of energy solutions working in different contexts, it aims to identify best practices and opportunities as well as challenges for scaling-up last mile delivery, including: Better understanding end-user needs in service planning and delivery to ensure impact; Delivering and building higher levels of energy demand beyond household lighting; Integrating energy services in cross-sectoral planning at local and national levels.[1]
The Session will also aim to identify significant gaps in the enabling environment and other forms of support for last-mile energy delivery, and concrete ways to address them, in order to scale-up progress to reach SDG7 and maximize development impacts across other SDGs.
What approaches to planning and service delivery are required to provide energy for community services such as health and education or for use in livelihoods activities for the last mile- extremely remote and vulnerable communities?
Challenges
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Examples of businesses delivering energy services
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Learning and Success factors
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