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This report assesses the extent to which inclusive business models promote women's economic empowerment in Asia and Latin America. It looks at Inclusive businesses that involve women in their value chain and provide specific services that help low-income women.

Based on interviews with movers and shapers involved in off-grid electrification projects in Africa and Asia this paper looks at how standalone electricity and mini-grids can increase access to electricity. It opportunities and challenges and comes up with a five-point plan to accelerate electrification.

This report investigates the extent to which Crowdfunding for Energy Efficiency (CF4EE) could play a relevant role in scaling up investments in energy efficiency in developing countries. The document identifies conditions which are conducive for CF4EE and recommends policies and institutional actions that can help scale up CF4EE, where the conditions are favourable, in particular for debt and equity crowdfunding.

In Tanzania there are huge opportunities for ambitious energy access investments to increase rural productivity, including milling, irrigation and small and microenterprises. This paper examines the experiences of two mini-hydro projects and a solar-diesel mini-grid project in Tanzania. All three projects are exploring ways to combine energy with wider rural development processes. The paper investigates what interventions work, and offers recommendations for new entrants, policymakers and funders.

Energy and agriculture form a nexus: Energy can be generated by using crops, agricultural residues and livestock waste. At the same time 30% of the global energy consumption is needed along the agricultural value chain. This brief outlines how policy makers can catalyse development agribusiness while supporting the energy-agriculture nexus.

This paper describes how the household solar market in Sub-Saharan Africa has grown to date, its current status and possible future trends. It seeks to understand how universal access to electricity in the region could be achieved through solar household systems. Universal access in this context means every person having access to at least one basic, entry-level solar light.

This compendium of case studies featuring Public-Private Partnerships, this is a first attempt by the UNECE to generate interest in the SDGs through real projects that made a difference in their respective communities.

This report is the first in a series on crowdfunding for energy access in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. This report reveals how crowdfunding for energy access is a niche market segment, with only $3.4 million raised for individuals, charities, NGOs and social enterprises in Africa and Asia in 2015.

This report provides an overview of common strategies and challenges to measure impact, especially in the clean energy sector. The second part of the report comes up with 12 commonly-used metrics for clean energy investments and the approaches used to measure them.