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Best Practice Burundi Across Burundi, families are rethinking how they cook – switching from open fires to cleaner, more efficient stoves – thanks to an innovative and strategic marketing approach, ...
Best Practice Uganda Smallholder farmers in Uganda face many challenges, from erratic rainfall to high fuel costs and heavy post-harvest losses. The Sustainable Energy for Smallholder Farmers (SEFFA) project, co-funded ...
Best Practice Cambodia Villages across Cambodia are uniting to take collective action on harmful smoke and air pollution that has long filled their homes from cooking with firewood. Since 2020, ...
Best Practice Laos The Government of Lao People’s Democratic Republic has set an ambitious goal – by 2030, 70% of the population should be cooking with electricity – but with ...
Best Practice Rwanda Over the past decade, energy access in Rwanda has increased from one in five to more than four in five households. A key driver behind this transformation ...
Best Practice Mozambique Bringing better energy and clean cooking technologies to more than 1.6 million Mozambicans – even during the challenges of Cyclone Idai and COVID-19? The Fund for Sustainable ...
Best Practice Benin Health centres, farms, universities, and other public services across rural Benin need unlimited access to clean water to grow food and serve the community. But with many ...
Best Practice Uganda Reaching the furthest behind is not only a question of geography. In Uganda, it’s about overcoming affordability barriers, low purchasing power, weak infrastructure, and lack of trust ...
Best Practice Kenya Kenyans are bounding ahead in access to electricity, and electric cooking might be the perfect accompaniment. An electric pressure cooker or induction stove can connect the two ...
Best Practice Mali Rural communities in Barouéli, central Mali, have found their own way to invest in solar-powered solutions. People support each other through revolving energy funds, set up along ...
Best Practice Indonesia A remote Indonesian island has demonstrated the potential of renewable energy: transforming local tourism by taking visitors on almost silent eBoat tours around its idyllic inlets. Built ...
Best Practice Bolivia What happens when rural women design their own energy solutions – and a project truly listens? In Bolivia, open calls for ideas sparked a wave of innovation. ...
Best Practice Liberia What happens when organisations come together to power universal energy access? A successful collaboration between EnDev, the World Bank, and the Government of Liberia has discovered that ...
Best Practice Bangladesh What happens when new technology isn’t just introduced, but owned, shaped, and shared by the community itself? Among Bangladesh’s Santal communities, adopting improved cookstoves is more than ...