The PPEO 2013 will be of interest to anyone seeking to better understand the interaction between energy access and community services. It should be required reading for the international energy sector and development practitioners seeking a greater understanding of energy access in the context of other areas of expertise.
In many countries poor peoples energy access is yet to be given sufficient priority and fails to be acknowledged as a key enabler in improving health, education, and other community services. As a contribution to creating a new energy narrative, the Poor peoples energy outlook (PPEO) highlights what matters to poor people. It prioritizes their perspectives and those of practitioners working with them. PPEO 2013 focuses on delivering energy at community level, illustrating the difference that improved energy services and supply can make to health, education and infrastructure, including access to water, and street lighting. The report makes the case for energy for community services; encouraging greater investment in, and integration of, this often neglected area of energy provision and will be of interest to anyone seeking to understand better the interaction between energy access and community services, both energy sector professionals and development practitioners alike.
The PPEO 2013 will be of interest to anyone seeking to better understand the interaction between energy access and community services. It should be required reading for the international energy sector and development practitioners seeking a greater understanding of energy access in the context of other areas of expertise.
The political profile of energy access is unprecedented. Globally, the UN Sustainable Energy for All Initiative has ensured that the issue is now recognized as central to international development dialogue. In many countries, however, poor peoples energy access is yet to be given sufficient priority and fails to be acknowledged as a key enabler in improving health, education, and other community services.
As a contribution to creating a new energy narrative, the
Poor Peoples Energy Outlook (PPEO) highlights what matters to poor people. It prioritizes their perspectives and those of practitioners working with them.
PPEO 2013, the third in the series, focuses on delivering energy at community level, illustrating the difference that improved energy services and supply can make to health, education and infrastructure, including access to water, and street lighting. The report makes the case for energy for community services; encouraging greater investment in, and integration of, this often neglected area of energy provision.
The
Poor Peoples Energy Outlook 2013 will be of interest to anyone seeking to understand better the interaction between energy access and community services, both energy sector professionals and development practitioners alike.
