Lessons for solar mini-grids from rural Tanzania

Perspective / SEI researchers followed the adoption of solar mini-grids in rural Tanzania to understand their impact and sustainability.

10 December 2018 / About Behaviour and choice, Energy access and Household energy

Africa Biogas Partnership Program: A review of clean cooking implementation through market development in East Africa

Journal article / This paper analyses the Africa Biogas Partnership Program (ABPP) in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.

20 June 2018 / About Household energy

Photo of Western Usambara Mountains, Tanzania -Photo David Ashby (CC2.0)

REDD+, hype, hope and disappointment: The dynamics of expectations in conservation and development pilot projects

Journal article / This paper explores the dynamics of expectations in international forest conservation and development programs.

1 September 2018 / About Adaptation, Forests, Land use and Mitigation

Photo of Usambara Mountains in Tanzania - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Usambara.jpg By Deogratiusf2 [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], from Wikimedia Commons

Local costs of conservation exceed those borne by the global majority

Journal article / Conservation planning tools and processes need to consider local costs as well as broader benefits.

18 April 2018 / About Ecosystems and Forests

Connecting people – Kalenge village waits for electrification

Feature / Kalenge, a village northwest of Tanzania, is unelectrified; its households have no connections to a central or local power grid.

17 October 2017 / About Energy access, Household energy and Renewables

Construction workers beneath a large lattice-like structure of metal and wires.

Catalysing investment in sustainable energy infrastructure in Africa: overcoming financial and non-financial constraints

SEI working paper / Challenges and tensions arise in financing energy infrastructure in sub-Saharan Africa. We explore this through case studies from Tanzania and Zambia.

18 January 2017 / About Energy access

Comparative assessment of sanitation and hygiene policies and institutional frameworks in Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania

SEI working paper

14 June 2016 / About Public policy and Sanitation

ResLeSS

Project / Research and Learning for Sustainable Intensification of Smallholder Livestock Value Chains in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia and Tanzania (ResLeSS).

2016 - 2020 / About Food and agriculture, Land use and Participation

United Republic of Tanzania