Practical Action launches new poor people's energy briefing series

Practical Action is pleased to announce the launch of a new poor people’s energy briefing series. The series will offer critical input into the fast moving and dynamic energy sector from the perspective of what matters for poor people.

The series complements Practical Action's flagship poor people’s energy outlook, which has, since 2010, been at the forefront of proposing new ways of understanding what energy access means for the poor, and what will be needed to address it.

The briefing papers will be a vehicle to share new evidence and learning and the series aims to be thought-provoking and to challenge the business-as-usual approach to energy access debates. It is a space for collaboration with energy access practitioners and policymakers. It seeks to inform how we can deliver on global, regional, and national energy access commitments, with one aim: to reach the universal energy access goal by 2030 and provide poor people with the energy services they demand, need, and have a right to.

‘Enabling Energy Access for the Poor’ launches the series by looking at gaps in the evidence base on decentralized energy access. We discuss how this reflects the current shape of the sector as well as its implications for what research is urgently needed along with the topics that the series aims to cover.

To download the first briefing paper please visit: http://practicalaction.org/poor-peoples-energy-briefing-series
To buy a print copy please visit: http://developmentbookshop.com/enabling-energy-access-for-the-poor