Implementing the South African free basic alternative energy policy

Mohlakoana, Nthabiseng

doi:10.3990/1.9789036537971

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“…With no active advertisement, the tool was offered by the Inselspital hospital. It is noteworthy that involving end users, policy implementers, and beneficiaries facilitates successful policy implementation [10][11][12].…”

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Identifying Policy Gaps in a COVID-19 Online Tool Using the Five-Factor Framework

Michel

Evans

Tanner

et al. 2022

Systems

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Introduction: Worldwide health systems are being faced with unprecedented COVID-19-related challenges, ranging from the problems of a novel condition and a shortage of personal protective equipment to frequently changing medical guidelines. Many institutions were forced to innovate and many hospitals, as well as telehealth providers, set up online forward triage tools (OFTTs). Using an OFTT before visiting the emergency department or a doctor’s practice became common practice. A policy can be defined as what an institution or government chooses to do or not to do. An OFTT, in this case, has become both a policy and a practice. Methods: The study was part of a broader multiphase sequential explanatory design. First, an online survey was carried out using a questionnaire to n = 176 patients who consented during OFTT usage. Descriptive analysis was carried out to identify who used the tool, for what purpose, and if the participant followed the recommendations. The quantitative results shaped the interview guide’s development. Second, in-depth interviews were held with a purposeful sample of n = 19, selected from the OFTT users who had consented to a further qualitative study. The qualitative findings were meant to explain the quantitative results. Third, in-depth interviews were held with healthcare providers and authorities (n = 5) that were privy to the tool. Framework analysis was adopted using the five-factor framework as a lens with which to analyze the qualitative data only. Results: The five-factor framework proved useful in identifying gaps that affected the utility of the COVID-19 OFTT. The identified gaps could fit and be represented by five factors: primary, secondary, tertiary, and extraneous factors, along with a lack of systems thinking. Conclusion: A theory or framework provides a road map to systematically identify those factors affecting policy implementation. Knowing how and why policy practice gaps come about in a COVID-19 OFFT context facilitates better future OFTTs. The framework in this study, although developed in a universal health coverage (UHC) context in South Africa, proved useful in a telehealth context in Switzerland, in Europe. The importance of systems thinking in developing digital tools cannot be overemphasized.

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Identifying Policy Gaps in a COVID-19 Online Tool Using the Five-Factor Framework

Michel

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Tanner

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“…Over an extended period the South African government has been attempting to improve energy access in energy-poor households through the 1998 Energy White Paper (Department ofMinerals and Energy, 1998). The central objective of the 1998 Energy White Paper (Department of Minerals and Energy, 1998) agrees on improving energy security, energy access, clean energy use and appliances, affordability, energy governance, diversified supply security, economic development as well as reducing energy-related environmental and health impacts(Davidson et al 2006;Mohlakoana 2014). …”

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An Energy Poverty Case Study: A Whole Systems Perspective Applied to an Informal Settlement

Okoye

Lalk

2020

INCOSE International Symp

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This paper describes the novel application of a systems approach within the context of energy poverty mitigation. This is enriched by using an informal human settlement situated in the Western Cape near Cape Town as case study. A systems approach is used to design and integrate system interfaces within an “energy poverty system” leading to a proposed new System Reinforcing Model (SRM) for Energy Access Sustainability (EAS) in energy‐poor communities. The proposed model identifies interrelated systems and elements, developed as design decisions and system designs grounded in energy‐use patterns and behavior, energy access options, sustainability, socio‐economic, cultural, technical, and environmental issues. The proposed new SRM is then applied to a typical energy‐poor community where the model's significance is effectively demonstrated. Based on its participatory sensitivity, the model reveals system parts instigating energy poverty and limiting energy access.

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Socio-economic Aspects of Energy and Climate Change in South Africa

Inglesi‐Lotz¹

2021

The Oxford Handbook of the South African Economy

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Appreciating energy and electricity as cornerstones of socio-economic growth and development, this chapter deals with a variety of concepts and factors to demonstrate the evolution of the role of energy in the South African economy and the population’s living standards. The chapter also discusses historically the various types of transition of the energy sector since the country’s first connection to electricity. The importance of energy as a factor of production and a medium of wealth is profound in the analysis. Also, the findings show that the transitions in the South African energy sector have gone through different natures: demographics of the users, sectoral transitions, regional ones until the one the sector has been undergoing since 2018 that combines a market transition (from monopolistic towards competitive environments) with a fuel transition (from a fossil-fuel-dominated system towards a cleaner, renewable mix).

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Implementing the South African free basic alternative energy policy

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Identifying Policy Gaps in a COVID-19 Online Tool Using the Five-Factor Framework

Identifying Policy Gaps in a COVID-19 Online Tool Using the Five-Factor Framework

An Energy Poverty Case Study: A Whole Systems Perspective Applied to an Informal Settlement

Socio-economic Aspects of Energy and Climate Change in South Africa

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