With support from WBG, ESMAP and the State and Peacebuilding Fund, the Ethiopia Electric Utility (EEU) is working with universities to create new opportunities for female employees and students.
The analysis focuses on: challenges that female-headed households (FHHs) face in accessing reliable electricity and heating services; struggle to pay for utilities in relation to male-headed households; and how often FHHs use coping…
A major new World Bank report, Rethinking Power Sector Reform in the Developing World, examines how developing countries have attempted to reform their power sector and with what results.
Installing stand-alone solar units and servicing them through long-term performance-based contracts can give public institutions the electricity service they need at a cost governments can afford.