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Microfinance

Microfinance describes loans that are usually made to individuals or small enterprises and is more common in developing countries where individuals may have difficulty accessing finance given limited assets. Microfinance can be used to support smaller purchases, such as a solar lantern or a solar panel with a battery and can leverage social networks as a way of ensuring payback. Microfinance can also be facilitated through online social platforms, including through social sharing and crowd funding platforms, as well as via formalized banking institutions that focus on microfinance.

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A New Scheme for the Promotion of Renewable Energies in Developing Countries: The Renewable Energy Regulated Purchase Tariff

This report sets out the main findings of discussions carried out by the Developing Countries Group of the European Photovoltaic…

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European Commission

Alliance for Rural Electrification

PhotoVoltaic Technology Platform

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BASE Renewable Energy Training Kits

The BASE Renewable Energy Training Kits are designed to help insurers, financiers, and other renewable energy project sponsors better understand…

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United Nations

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Country Energy Profiles (Website)

This reegle website provides comprehensive energy profiles for all countries with information from reliable sources such as UN or the…

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reegle

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Energy Efficiency Benefits Calculator

This calculator can be used to help educate stakeholders on the broad benefits of energy efficiency. It provides a simplified…

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Energy and Environmental Economics

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United States Environmental Protection Agency

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Energy for Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Energy Documents and Publications Catalogue

This catalogue contains documents produced by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and its partners in the area of energy…

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United Nations

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Energy for Development and Poverty Reduction Publications (Website)

This website includes books, selected articles and chapters, reports, working papers, and technical papers focusing on energy access issues.

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Energy Sector Management Assistance Program Publications

This database provides access to all publications of the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP), a global knowledge and technical…

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Energy Sector Management Assistance Program

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Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (Website)

This website provides information about the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (Alliance), a public-private initiative working to stimulate a global…

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United Nations

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Global Village Energy Partnership: Accelerating Access to Energy (Website)

This website provides information about and publications from the Global Village Energy Partnership. Established at the 2002 World Summit for…

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Global Village Energy Partnership

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Green Light For Renewable Energy in Developing Countries

This report provides information about the current use of electricity in rural areas and analyzes opportunities and challenges to rural…

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Alliance for Rural Electrification

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How to Upscale Deep Renovations Using Financial Mechanisms: Insight From Best-Practice Jurisdictions on Incentives and Drivers

This recorded webinar addresses the critical question of how financing schemes can be developed to support and leverage the large…

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Global Buildings Performance Network (GBPN)

Clean Energy Solutions Center

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Investing In Gender Equality For Africa's Transformation

It is widely recognized that gender equality is both a development goal in itself and a precondition for the achievement…

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African Development Bank Group

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Nicaragua: Off-grid Rural Electrification Project (PERZA)

This case study highlights Nicaragua’s Off-grid Rural Electrification Project (PERZA), which aimed to provide decentralized electricity services to rural remote…

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The World Bank

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Partnership for Clean Indoor Air Resources (Website)

This website offers tools and resources in support of reducing smoke exposure from cooking and heating practices in households around…

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Partnership for Clean Indoor Air

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Policy and Regulatory Overviews (Website)

reegle’s policy and regulatory overviews provide country highlights for a variety of policies and regulations relating to energy, energy efficiency,…

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reegle

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Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Toolkit (Website)

This digital library offers an array of information from the fields of renewable energy and energy efficiency. Resources include policy…

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Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP)

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Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) Presentations Archive (Website)

This website hosts a collection of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) presentations and speeches covering numerous clean energy…

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Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP)

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Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Law Examples (Website)

This website provides examples of projects supported by the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) to create legal and…

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Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP)