Introduction and overview

Grafham, Owen

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“…Both in the research and in the humanitarian response field, the critical role of data has repeatedly been highlighted [32,[39][40][41]. In a consolidating report on the state of energy access in displacement contexts, the GPA highlighted the need for evidence and data to inform systemic change as one of their key messages [16], which picks up on the Working Area Data, Evidence, Monitoring and Reporting (Working Area V) outlined in the Framework for Action in 2018 [41].…”

Section: The Levels Of Data and The Current State Of Affairsmentioning

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Enhancing Understanding through Data Visualization: What Can Available Data Reveal about Access to Energy in Displacement Contexts on the African Continent?

Britton,

Baslik,

Schmid

et al. 2024

Sustainability

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The extent of access to energy of displaced persons in settlements and camps on the African continent is largely unknown. A multitude of contextual factors, such as the location, the characteristics of housing, legal status, socio-cultural background, and the availability of humanitarian and public services, impact the living conditions and needed energy services. Limitations in accessing energy services have direct, multilayered, and far-reaching implications, including impacts on health, nutrition, education, protection, and livelihood. The objective of this article is to contribute to a more comprehensive overview of the current state of energy access in displacement contexts on the African continent by identifying and utilizing existing data. After screening the vast and various available information, setting up a database, consolidating the gathered data as well as assessing quality through a quality assessment method, the currently available information was visualized and discussed. Considerable differences in the access to energy for displaced persons across the countries were found. Access to both electricity and clean cooking ranged from nearly no access at all up to an access rate of 100%, though the averages are 94% of displaced persons without access to electricity and 81% of displaced persons without clean cooking. Overall, the results showed that besides South Africa and countries in the Maghreb region, the access to both clean cooking and electricity for displaced persons is very low. At the same time, the fragmented data availability, the poor data quality, and the inadequate expediency of available data allowed neither solid theoretical conclusions nor the planning of effective practical implementation measures. Novel interdisciplinary research, conceptual frameworks, and indicators are needed for the purpose of comparability and consistency. Future research has the potential to more comprehensively capture the current state of access to energy in displacement contexts and, subsequently, examine how energy is interwoven in the lives of displaced persons to derive a set of more detailed context-sensitive energy indicators. It is essential that displaced persons themselves are included in the research in a meaningful way.

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Section: The Levels Of Data and The Current State Of Affairsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Enhancing Understanding through Data Visualization: What Can Available Data Reveal about Access to Energy in Displacement Contexts on the African Continent?

Britton,

Baslik,

Schmid

et al. 2024

Sustainability

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“…The literature demonstrates that the burden and risks of collecting firewood falls overwhelmingly on women and girls (Lyytinen 2009 ; Booker et al 2012 ; WRC 2014 ; Thulstrup and Joshi 2017 ; Listo 2018 ), exposing them to greater risks. However, it is important to note that most gender-based violence is inter-partner and inter-familial violence that happens within or close to homes (Duvvury et al 2004 ; Kishor and Johnson 2004 ; World Health Organization 2005 ; Grafham 2020 ), rather than ‘stranger’ violence which happens during firewood collection. There are some examples of inter-partner firewood violence in the literature such as Mulumba ( 2011 ) who found that the time women spent away from their homes collecting firewood had a negative effect on their domestic relations.…”

Section: Humanitarian Response and Energy Accessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The briquettes burn with much lower indoor concentrations of carbon monoxide compared to traditional charcoal and reduced the need for refugee households to collect firewood (Karahalios et al 2018 ). However, the success of these projects has been limited because of a lack of access to finance to initiate and scale projects, along with the challenges associated with competing with donated products and a lack of clarity on private-humanitarian partnerships (Grafham 2020 ). Although projects are starting to explore the implications of e-waste (i.e.…”

Section: Humanitarian Response and Energy Accessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, reducing emissions from energy use has tended to be seen as impeding the primary objective of delivering humanitarian assistance (Grafham and Lahn 2018 ). Until recently, sustainable energy for humanitarian operations had not been considered in a substantive or sustainable way (UN Environment 2017 ; Grafham 2020 ). However, recognising the need for responsible action, the United Nations has made commitments to achieve climate neutrality (UN Environment 2017 ), although progress towards this aim has been slow.…”

Section: Humanitarian Response and Energy Accessmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Moving beyond informal action: sustainable energy and the humanitarian response system

Thomas

Rosenberg-Jansen

Jenks

2021

Int J Humanitarian Action

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Energy and humanitarian action have long been uneasy bedfellows. In the field, many humanitarian practitioners lack the time or remit to engage with a complex issue such as energy, and the topic to date has received relatively little attention from the private, development and academic sectors. This paper hopes to provide more clarity on energy in forced displacement settings by analysing how energy is interwoven with the humanitarian cluster system. This paper has two aims: (1) to assess existing evidence in the sector and explain the links between energy and each of the humanitarian clusters and (2) to provide recommendations on how humanitarian response efforts can transition from informal action to a comprehensive response on sustainable energy provision. This paper is the first to investigate the role of energy using the cluster system as a framework and contributes to a rapidly evolving field of research and practice on energy in humanitarian contexts. Our analysis demonstrates that energy is not fully integrated within humanitarian programme planning. Further, it highlights pathways for improving humanitarian outcomes enabled by improved energy practices. We identify ten ways clusters can integrate action on energy to support crisis-affected communities.

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Introduction and overview

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Enhancing Understanding through Data Visualization: What Can Available Data Reveal about Access to Energy in Displacement Contexts on the African Continent?

Enhancing Understanding through Data Visualization: What Can Available Data Reveal about Access to Energy in Displacement Contexts on the African Continent?

Moving beyond informal action: sustainable energy and the humanitarian response system

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