Project News

In October 2025, the Clean Energy for Development initiative gathered in Johannesburg, South Africa for a cross-cohort in-person workshop. On Friday 17 October, we held a policy event, entitled ‘Unlocking the Potential of Small and Medium Businesses and Entrepreneurs in the Clean Energy Transition’. The event brought together key policymakers, activists and researchers working on […]

As the clean energy transition gains momentum, it vital to ensure that the clean energy transition is fair and inclusive. Under Brazil’s 2024 G20 presidency, countries endorsed principles that call for addressing inequalities and ensuring women and youth are active participants in the shift to renewable energy. Turning these goals into action remains difficult. Barriers […]

The GENERIS project recently supported Bolivia’s first National Workshop on Distributed Generation, in collaboration with the Vice Minister of Electricity and Fernando Vargas from Generis Bolivia. The event brought together stakeholders from GIZ, the French Development Agency, IDB, the World Bank, and local universities, and focused on the presentation of AETN Resolution No. 379/2024, which […]

The Catalytic Climate Finance (CC) Facility Learning Hub has opened a call for proposals on Local Capital Mobilization Research project. The CC Facility Learning Hub are looking to build upon the knowledge from a forthcoming report on local capital mobilization, by engaging with local institutions on research related to knowledge gaps in mobilizing domestic capital […]

In this virtual panel event, we will bring together experts from various regions to address a critical challenge of our time: ensuring that women and youth are not left behind in the global transition to clean energy.   Gender equity needs to be at the centre of clean energy policies, or women will become even more […]

‘Rural renewable energy MSMEs operating to modernise agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa: Barriers, opportunities, and implications for inclusive low-carbon transition’ is one of 12 projects which make up the CEDCA initiative. Led by PEP (Partnership for Economic Policy), this project aims to explore the transformative potential of rural renewable energy MSMEs in modernising agriculture by addressing the critical gaps in […]