Pathways To Impact: Collaborating Toward an Energy Access Framework

The World Resources Institute (WRI) developed a collaborative, technologically agnostic monitoring and evaluation (M&E) framework for four IKEA Foundation grantee partners—One Acre Fund, Practical Action, SELCO Foundation, and Rainforest Alliance—under the Good Cause Campaign (GCC). The framework utilizes an Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) approach and the Energy Delivery Model to track impacts across poverty reduction, education, livelihoods, and health. To ensure data uniformity across diverse projects, WRI identified five 'enablers': reliability and affordability, technology suitability, market outreach, product and services, and a market-linked ecosystem. The framework measures specific parameters including reduced CO2 emissions, decreased energy expenditure, increased study hours, and expanded health service hours.

• WRI developed a standardized monitoring and evaluation (M&E) framework for four IKEA Foundation partners—One Acre Fund, Practical Action, SELCO Foundation, and Rainforest Alliance—to enable consistent reporting toward a common goal despite the partners using different initial approaches.
• The framework adopts a 'technologically agnostic' approach, meaning it does not favor any specific technology, allowing it to track results from various energy solutions tailored to different end users.
• The framework integrates two primary models: an Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) approach to align indicators with human well-being and the Energy Delivery Model to analyze how results were achieved through activities and resources.
• To support the interpretation of data across different regions and contexts, the framework incorporates five 'enablers': reliability and affordability, technology suitability, market outreach, product and services, and a market-linked ecosystem.
• The framework establishes common calculations for measuring impact across four key sectors: environment (reduced CO2 emissions), economic (decreased energy expenditure and increased income/financial services), education (increase in study hours), and health (increase in health service hours or patients served).

APA

World Resources Institute (n.d.). Pathways To Impact: Collaborating Toward an Energy Access Framework. https://www.wri.org/research/pathways-impact-collaborating-toward-energy-access-framework

Chicago

World Resources Institute. Pathways To Impact: Collaborating Toward an Energy Access Framework. n.d. https://www.wri.org/research/pathways-impact-collaborating-toward-energy-access-framework.

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldresourcesinstitutendpathways, author = {{World Resources Institute}}, title = {{Pathways To Impact: Collaborating Toward an Energy Access Framework}}, institution = {World Resources Institute}, url = {https://www.wri.org/research/pathways-impact-collaborating-toward-energy-access-framework}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }