Sub-Saharan Africa

The place of youth in climate change agenda: SEI’s Sharon Onyango to ‘Daily Nation’

Media coverage / SEI's Graduate Fellow Sharon Onyango, in a Q and A spoke to 'Daily Nation' on the place of youth in the climate change agenda.

20 March 2023 / About Climate policy

Buildings rattled by an earthquake in Nepal lie in ruins amid a summer monsoon, against a backdrop of lush forested mountains.

Locally led needs assessments of loss and damage finance

Past event / This session in this year's Gobeshona Global Conference will detail SEI's research on how to tailor Loss and Damage financial support to local needs.

14 March 2023 / About Climate policy, Disaster Risk, Finance, Geopolitics, Participation and Public policy

Two women cook around a wood-burning fire in South Africa.

SEI’s Rob Bailis talks to Global Dispatches podcast about new research on cleaner cooking for the climate

Media coverage / Perhaps counterintuitively, some fossil-based cooking fuels are better for climate and health than the biomass fuels used by 2.4 billion people, research shows.

13 March 2023 / About Behaviour and choice, Energy access, Food and agriculture, Forests, Fossil fuels, Household energy, Mitigation, Planning and modelling, Pollution, Short lived climate pollutants and Wellbeing

SEI’s Philip Osano to young people: translate conference appearances into practice

Media coverage / Speaking to NTV, SEI Africa director Philip Osano tells young people to translate conference appearances into tangible activities.

6 March 2023 / About Geopolitics and Public policy

The sun shines through blue sky and white clouds upon a wetland.

From talk to action: 3 priorities for a water-secure future

Perspective / A diverse array of leaders will gather in a rare UN water conference. SEI experts suggest three ways to foster a more water-resilient world.

2 March 2023 / About Adaptation, Bioeconomy, Climate services, Disaster Risk, Ecosystems, Food and agriculture, Land use, Participation, Planning and modelling, Public policy, Sanitation, Water resources, Water-Energy-Food Nexus and Wellbeing

Children wash their hands before eating in Tanzania.

Identifying effective forms of stakeholder engagement in WaSH interventions

Project / This project aims to understand the engagement and communication between program beneficiaries and program implementers in Tanzania.

2023 - 2024 / About Cities, Public policy, Sanitation and Sustainable Development Goals

Solar mini-grid, Kenya © CarlFourie / Getty

Locating the unintended consequences of interventions: a tool for analysing impact inequality in development programming

SEI report / A new tool, LUCI, has been developed as part of the Locacons Project to determine the broader impacts of development interventions.

27 February 2023 / About Adaptation, Disaster Risk and Energy access

A tea kettle rests upon a stone bordering a wood-fired pit.

Novel research shows health, climate benefits of increasing access to electricity and gas for cooking in low- and middle-income countries

Press release / Expanding the use of LPG and/or grid electricity to replace biomass-fueled cooking in low- and middle-income countries benefits human health and climate.

15 February 2023 / About Behaviour and choice, Climate policy, Energy access, Food and agriculture, Fossil fuels, Household energy, Land use, Mitigation, Pollution, Public policy, Short lived climate pollutants, Sustainable Development Goals and Wellbeing

Side view of man sitting next to wood-burning stove in hut

Scaling up gas and electric cooking in low- and middle-income countries: climate threat or mitigation strategy with co-benefits?

Journal article / A novel analysis shows the global climate and health benefits of switching biomass cookstoves in low- and middle-income countries to electricity and LPG.

14 February 2023 / About Behaviour and choice, Climate policy, Energy access, Food and agriculture, Fossil fuels, Household energy, Land use, Mitigation, Pollution, Public policy, Short lived climate pollutants, Sustainable Development Goals, Sustainable lifestyles and Wellbeing