Environment and Energy

Achieving the Millennium Development Goals: The Role of Energy Services (2004)
Editors: Jem Porcaro and Minoru Takada

This report is a product of a research endeavor to analyze what effects targeted energy services in Brazil, the Philippines and Mali have on the countries’ attainment of MDG goals.

Reducing Rural Poverty through Increased Access to Energy Services: A Review of the Multifunctional Platform Project in Mali (2004)
Authors: Abeeku Brew-Hammond and Anna Crole-Rees

This report reviews experiences of the multifunctional platform project in Mali and documents how modern energy services affect people’s lives in terms of income, education, and rural women’s status and health.
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Production and Dissemination of Solar Water Heaters, Côte d'Ivoire (2003)

Summary of a project in Cote d'Ivoire which developed local capacity to produce solar water heaters that cost less than imported models. The project was found to have several environmental, social and economic benefits as a result of a cheaper hot water supply.

Energy-saving Institutional Stoves in the Mt. Kenya Region, Kenya (2003)

Lessons learned from a community project in Kenya. This project involved replacing open fire cooking systems in schools with heavy, brick-insulated stainless steel stoves that require far less firewood and drastically reduce fuel costs.

Linking Micro Hydro Power and Forest Conservation, Dominican Republic (2003)

This project introduced micro hydropower in order to provide electricity for lighting in homes and the local school. The new power has contributed to livelihoods in even more ways, such as in enabling computer access in the community.