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Economics of Transportation Infrastructure: Balancing Needs of Biodiversity Conservation and Costs

27 April 2022
Economic analysis tools are important instruments that support decision making for infrastructure development including rural roads. The use of these tools such as economic valuation, cost-benefit analysis and multi-criteria analysis help identify potential impacts and their costs, which could be…

Presentation: Disinfection and Waste Management in the ETU

6 April 2020
A lecture on disinfection and waste management in the ETU to prepare healthcare workers to work in Ebola Treatment Units (ETUs) in Africa.

Towards a Gender Inclusive KPLC

21 November 2019
This presentation tackles the challenges and emerging good practices adopted by Kenya Power in the recruitment, development, and retention of women professionals.

Powering Utility-Scale Renewable Energy Projects in Africa, Asia and the Middle East

20 June 2019
The presentation highlighted the key trends and nuances in the financing of renewable energy projects across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East region. The presentation will provide details on various structures (park and non-park based), procurement strategy and other enablers to promote the…

EFlows Case Studies and Review

22 November 2018
With a decision tree as guide, this presentation cites EFlows case studies and assessments, including a proposed inlet array design, hydropower plants, and river zoning.

Practical Experiences in Combining Poverty and Environment at the National Level: The Experience of South Africa

24 November 2016
Poverty in South Africa is seen as one of the major challenges facing the young democracy. This is compounded by the high and continually increasing unemployment figures, with the youth and women being the most vulnerable groups. Such problems forced the population to overutilize the country’s…

Enabling Conditions to Foster Success in National Programmes: Conditional Transfers—Experiences, Lessons and Challenges

24 November 2016
Ina Porras, senior researcher at the International Institute for Environment and Development, shared experiences between poverty and environmental experts, policy makers and researchers, and across geographies on how conditional transfers are used to protect or restore fragile ecosystems and…

Behavior Change and the Principles of Pride

10 November 2016
Many schools of thought and theories exist on how behaviors change. Effecting change will require behavior shifts from a collective level across a group of people. Rare uses what it calls a “pride” campaign as behavioral change approach inspiring communities to change social norms around how their…

Social Marketing and Behavior Change for Environmental Protection

10 November 2016
By following a set of customized sequential actions, Rare integrates behavior change communication early in its project design. This report discusses in detail Rare’s behavioral change approaches and the elements of its “pride” campaign that resulted in effective behavior adoption.

Exploring Factors that Enhance and Restrict Women’s Empowerment through Electrification: Scoping Study Report

30 March 2016
This report examines how policy and practice may enhance women’s empowerment though electrification in rural areas in the South. It presents the results of a desk study in which empirical literature on women’s empowerment from electrification and international initiatives and national electricity…