This policy brief highlights insights on how African countries are assessing their Science Technology and Innovation (STI) metrics and recommends an integrated scoreboard for improving the assessment. The brief is based on the ‘Assessing Science and Te …

This report provides an overview of the status of science, technology and innovation (STI) in form of country briefs for 19 FCDO priority countries using a proposed set of core indicators that are comparable (regionally and internationally). The countr …

International climate finance mechanisms have often failed to deliver against the climate technology needs of low and middle income countries. This has meant that Africa has lost out on the competitive edge as regards gaining from meaningful climate fi …

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 …

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 …

Solar energy has been highlighted as a potentially important source of renewable energy for Kenya’s green economy transitions as well as the country’s intended national commitments to the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goal Number 7. H …

Efficient cook stoves have been an important policy focus of international development efforts to address negative health and environmental problems associated with traditional cooking practices. However, major emphasis has been on ensuring initial acc …

“Countries will be meeting in Paris, France in December 2015 to agree on a new global climate ‘protocol, another legal instrument or an agreed outcome with legal force’ to go into effect in the year 20201. This will be a culmination of negotiations on …

“The aim of this paper is to analyse the implementation of global REDD+ rules within Kenyan policies and identify sources of coherences and conflicts between REDD+ design rules and existing sectorial policies and local socioeconomic settings. The speci …

“Emerging climate change regimes such as the mechanism for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) are increasingly aiming to engage developing countries such as those in Africa in sustainable development through carbon mar …