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Locally led action and equitable partnerships for clean energy access

The locally led action and equitable partnerships for clean energy access webinar discussed locally-led projects and equitable partnership approaches supported through the Ayrton Fund which are driving energy access and innovation in emerging economies. Our panel of experts provided insight, examples and recommendations to support locally-led action and equitable partnerships across the sector.

The webinar also launched the latest Ayrton Fund report.

Key takeaways from the webinar included:

  • Local stakeholders must be engaged from the earliest stages of project design to support successful, sustainable and equitable interventions, ensuring that projects are demand driven and co-created with local actors.
  • Building local capacity, investing in institutional infrastructure and ensuring local leadership can ensure that projects last into the long-term and support continuity beyond the project cycle.
  • Locally-led projects mean that local actors define the vision, set the questions that they want to address and lead the process. External partners can support this local leadership – but it is about shifting from implementation for countries to implementing with countries.
  • There is no single approach to locally-led partnerships – every country, institution and process is different. Flexibility is not optional, it is essential.
  • Ongoing dialogue is crucial, we must embrace tensions and disagreements in order to learn and move forward.
    Watch the full webinar below.

Watch the full webinar below.

Inspira farms

Over the last four years, innovations supported by the Ayrton Fund have helped create and supported 210,000 sustainable long-term jobs in the clean energy market primarily across Sub-Saharan Africa, alongside impacts in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, and increasingly through local businesses.

Behind that headline figure are real people, skills and livelihoods that underpin the transition to a low-carbon economy and wider systems change. The Ayrton Fund Green Jobs Insights Study explores how clean energy innovation is creating and supporting jobs across emerging markets, and the systems needed to measure this impact effectively. Alongside the report, our short films showcase how this translates on the ground, with stories from BURN Manufacturing in Kenya and InspiraFarms bringing these impacts to life.

Burn Kenya

BURN Manufacturing is helping drive Kenya’s transition to clean cooking by providing efficient, affordable alternatives to traditional stoves, helping reduce indoor air pollution, lower fuel costs and cutting carbon emissions for households.

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