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Tag: Refugee + Displaced + Informal Settings

Power up: how mini-grids make energy accessible in refugee camps
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  • With energy needs far beyond the capacity of solar lamps, these solar mini-grids could support critical services, from healthcare to local businesses, transforming the possibilities for camp residents, who often live there for many, many years....
Powering Rwanda: Expanding Energy Access Amid Rural and Refugee Disparities
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  • The Rwanda Energy Survey highlights significant progress in expanding electricity access, with 63.9% of households now connected,though rural areas and refugee camps still face substantial gaps in both electricity and clean cooking services. Targeted policies are needed to address these disparities and advance toward universal energy access by 2030...
Chinese solar technology helps light up Kenyan refugee camp
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  • Vasco Hamisi, who fled the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in 2010 and ended up in the Kakuma refugee camp, is playing a pivotal role in ensuring that the refugee camp has access to renewable energy despite not being connected to the country's main electricity grid. His breakthrough came in 2018 when he participated in a grant challenge....
Solar power is improving the lives of millions of refugees
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  • Solar is the energy of choice in refugee camps around the world that are turning to clean energy, whether at the initiative of UN agencies, humanitarian groups or governments. And manufacturers and distributors are eagerly jumping in to meet this need in a buoyant sector, valued globally at US$167.83 billion in 2022....
Call for Proposals: Clean Cooking Solutions for the Uganda Refugee Response
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  • As part of the UK’s Building Resilience and Effective Refugee Response (BRAER) Programme, the UK is issuing a call for proposals requesting organisations to submit a solution to the identified ‘clean cooking challenge’; searching for approaches to reduce the high level of woody biomass consumption in the refugee response....
Refugee-led co-operative brings solar power to Ethiopian refugee camp
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  • A solar co-op, set up by residents of Ethiopia’s Melkadida Refugee Camp, is supplying the camp’s households and businesses with clean, reliable energy. Iftiin, which means ‘light’ in Somali, helped to build the area’s first solar mini grid in 2020 as part of a partnership project between UNHCR, the UK Refugee Agency, and the IKEA Foundation. ...
New portfolio company in Uganda targets refugee communities, businesses and farmers
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  • The Beyond the Grid Fund for Africa (BGFA) has signed an agreement with POPO Universal Energy Limited to scale up its solar-powered battery rental services in northern Uganda. POPO is a Joint venture between VAC Solar and United Healthcare. The project is expected to provide more than 82,800 people with access to electricity by the end of 2027....

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