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        Hannah Wanjiru

        Research Associate

      • SEI Africa
      • Expertise: energy technology, energy markets, policy development, environment, Climate change
      • hannah.wanjiru@sei.org
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      Hannah Wanjiru joined SEI Africa in 2014, and is a Research Associate supporting energy research in the region.

      Hannah has seven years’ experience in diverse organizations. She has a technical background in energy, environment, natural resources and climate change. She has worked on design, implementation and evaluation of development projects, livelihoods assessments, policy development and resources and community mobilization in addition to impact studies and technical training. She is strong in advocacy work, markets and value chain assessment and gender mainstreaming.

      Prior to joining SEI, Hannah worked as an Energy Project Officer at Practical Action – East Africa Regional Office, Nairobi, where she contributed to the design and delivery of projects and consultancy assignments on different energy and environment issues, such as renewable energy assessment, biomass fuels and technologies, energy markets and research, cookstoves, policy advocacy and minigrids. Previously, she worked as an Environmental Officer at Green Africa Foundation, a local NGO promoting bioenergy and environment conservation.

      Hannah has a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies and a master’s degree in Energy Technology; her research focused on commercialization of small wind turbine technologies in Kenya. She is also trained on Greenhouse Gases Inventory, Energy Management and Standards Development.

      Publications by Hannah Wanjiru

      • Understanding multi-level drivers of behaviour change
      • Overcoming barriers to sustainable charcoal in Kenya
      • Energising Kenya's future: reducing greenhouse gas emissions and achieving development aspirations
      • Energy Pathways for Achieving Kenya's Nationally Determined Contribution on Climate Change
      • The role of social relations in the adoption of improved cookstoves
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      Perspectives by Hannah Wanjiru

      • Kenya blazes a trail to more sustainable charcoal – and better livelihoods

      Featured stories with Hannah Wanjiru

      • Building a bridge: Kenyan Parliamentarians pledge to work with scientists on SDGs
      • SEI’s Science Forum 2016: Implementing Agenda 2030
      • How an African energy transformation can spur development

      Projects and tools with Hannah Wanjiru

      • TRANSrisk
      • SEI Initiative on Fossil Fuels and Climate Change
      • SEI Initiative on Behaviour and Choice
      • Citizen science and air pollution
      • DFID Cookstoves Engagement Kenya
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