This reference guide, Financing Climate Resilience in African Cities, from the USAID-funded Adaptation Thought Leadership and Assessments (ATLAS) project provides an overview of the wide range of finance mechanisms available to governments to fund climate resilience initiatives at both the national and local level. The guide also outlines the opportunities and challenges for municipal governments in sub-Saharan Africa to use select finance mechanisms to provide for their citizens needs as cities grow and the climate changes, providing illustrative interventions to increase the change of each mechanism’s success.
On 31 January 201 (2:00 PM - 3:30 PM CET), ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability is holding a webinar on the theme of "Improving the walkability of African cities".
On 24 January 2018 (3:00 PM - 4:00 PM CET/2:00 PM - 3:00 PM GMT), the Green Lending Forum is holding a webinar on "Solar for Business in Africa".
This training manual serves as a resource for e-waste trainers, providing essential information on e-waste definitions, dismantling techniques, material recovery, small-scale facility management and business opportunities.
This report takes an in-depth look at the challenges and opportunities to provide clean energy access in sub-Saharan Africa.
This policy brief, Off-grid productivity: powering universal energy access, outlines how mainstreaming productive uses of energy (PUE) can drive economic development, boost demand for energy, and support governments' sustainable development plans based upon evidence and experiences from the Energy Change Lab, a programme led by IIED and Hivos that works closely with partners in Tanzania on productive uses of energy (PUE) for community entrepreneurs.