Publication - Briefing on Healthcare Electrification in Humanitarian Settings
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Title
Briefing on Healthcare Electrification in Humanitarian Settings
Publisher
UNITAR, GPA
Author
Jonathan Archimi, Shahaab Javeri, Katherine Patterson
Published in
January 2025
Abstract
Following the COVID-19 pandemic, the importance of reliable electricity supply to enable the delivery of essential healthcare services in developing countries has only become clearer. With the present report, The Global Platform for Action (GPA) aims to contribute to the growing body of research on healthcare electrification being developed by partners such as SEforALL via its Powering Healthcare programme and the WHO under its Health and Energy Platform for Action (HEPA).
In particular, this report provides ground-level, practical insights on the challenges to and effective strategies for delivering reliable, clean electricity supply to healthcare facilities specifically in humanitarian contexts, by analysing the lessons from ongoing projects serving people living in fragile and displacement settings. The report’s geographic focus is on sub-Saharan Africa, where 45 million people 1 are currently living in displacement settings, accounting for roughly 35% of displaced people globally. While this report specifically highlights contexts of fragility and displacement, many of the practical realities are similar to wider institutional electrification in last mile and hard-to-reach locations.
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