Market-based Approach for Energy Access in Humanitarian Settings

A Guide to Market-Based Livelihood Interventions for Refugees

This guide provides a framework for assessment to help practitioners determine the right combination of market-based interventions that is adopted to the local context and settings.

It orients itself around the ILO's market system framework that focuses on four components of market:

• Demand and Supply
• Supporting Function
• Rules and Regulations

Involving the private sector

The following webinars discuss the approach, challenges as well as of different opportunities for involving the private sector in humanitarian context:

• Making Markets Work | Models for Private Sector Engagement in Humanitarian Energy
• Webinar on Sustainable Energy for Small Businesses in Displacement Settings
• Webinar on How to Insure Long-term Activities in Short-term Funding

Webinar on Delivery model for clean cooking

• Webinar 3 Delivery Models Presentation

Promoting Market Based Energy Access for Cooking and Lighting in Kakuma Refugee Camp

The Market-Based Energy Access (MBEA) project was designed to drive a shift from a humanitarian, donation-based approach to market-based energy access for refugees in Kakuma refugee camp, Kalobeyei integrated settlement, and the surrounding host community. SNV implemented the pilot phase of the project between October 2017 and September 2019 with funding from the Energising Development (EnDev) programme. MBEA II launched in October 2019.

Solar-powered Energy Kiosks in Uganda

Further Readings

• Publication: Innovative Financing for Humanitarian Energy Interventions
• Publication: Funding and Delivery Models for Modern Energy Cooking Services in Displacement Settings: A Review
• Assessment of Market-Driven Solutions for Energy Access in Refugee Settlements in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Publication - Humanitarian Energy : Energy for micro-enterprises in displacement settings