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David Ockwell

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26 May 2017

Making Climate Finance Work for Africa: Using NDCs to leverage Climate Relevant Innovation System Builders (CRIBS): Training Brief 2: Using CRIBS (Climate Relevant Innovation-system Builders) to Implement NDCs

CRIBs are institutions that can be established in developing countries to act as key platforms for developing innovation systems around nationally appropriate climate technologies. CRIBs will create capacity to understand existing local capacities and …

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3 April 2017

Making Climate Finance work for Africa: Using NDC’s to Leverage Climate Relevant Innovation System Builders (CRIBS): Training Brief 1: Why Focus on Building Innovation Systems?

Previous international climate finance mechanisms completely failed to deliver against the climate technology needs of low and middle income countries. By focussing only on funding for technology hardware, climate finance mechanisms like the Clean Deve …

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1 March 2014

Low Carbon Energy and Development in Low-income Countries Policy Lessons from a Study of the Off-grid Photovoltaics Sector in Kenya

“Sustainable energy technologies could contribute significantly to human development and economic growth in low-income countries. Public policy has an important role to play in fostering the markets for these technologies. This briefing summarises key …

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1 June 2013

Adapting the Innovation Histories Method for A Workshop on Solar Home Systems Uptake in Kenya

“This briefing reflects on the adaptation of the Innovation Histories method for our research project on the uptake of solar home systems (SHSs) in Kenya. It provides an overview of the method itself, how we adapted it to fit with the aims and theoreti …

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