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The document details SEforALL's five-outcome Theory of Change aimed at achieving SDG7 through gender-sensitive action, global commitments, policy standards, financial mobilization, and direct energy installations. It reports cumulative results including the leveraging of 3.6 billion USD directly and 2.7 billion USD indirectly for energy access and clean energy transitions.

The document lists ten financing programs providing grants, seed funding, and technical assistance for renewable energy technologies. These programs target various stages of business development, from R&D and pilots to scaling and commercial expansion, primarily within African nations and other low-income or developing regions. Funding amounts vary significantly, ranging from small grants of US $15,000 to large-scale transition grants of up to US $15 million.

This case study describes the Malawi Energy Compact, which aims to provide the entire population of 25 million people with access to climate-friendly, energy-saving, or cleaner cooking solutions by 2030, with a long-term goal of net-zero emissions by 2050.

The Malawi Integrated Energy Plan (IEP) outlines a strategy to move from 12.5% electricity access in 2022 to universal access by 2030 for an estimated 5.5 million households. The plan proposes a mix of grid-based solutions (64% of new growth) and off-grid solutions (26%), with a heavy emphasis on the Central and Southern regions. It identifies significant financing gaps and suggests that adopting international competitive bidding and low-cost rural design standards could reduce grid expansion costs from $3.1 billion (BAU) to $1.8 billion. The report also assesses the electrification of public facilities, including 1,058 health clinics and 7,123 schools, and examines the impact of e-cooking on future energy demand.

The report argues that electrification and clean cooking have historically been treated as separate sectors, leading to inefficient energy planning. It advocates for 'integrated energy planning' that leverages the synergies between electricity access and eCooking to accelerate the transition away from biomass. The document reviews various modelling approaches—including energy system planning, sub-sector planning, and geospatial energy access planning—and highlights the Integrated Clean Cooking Plan Tool (ICCPT) in Rwanda as a significant methodological advance. It also details the policy, financial, and data requirements necessary to operationalize these plans, such as eCooking tariffs, results-based financing, and digital monitoring, reporting and verification (dMRV) for carbon finance.

The report examines the 'gender-energy nexus' in the era of AI, highlighting how the digital gender divide and energy poverty disproportionately affect women. It identifies critical challenges, including gender bias in AI development, a deficit of sex-disaggregated energy data, and the risk of AI data centres diverting resources from low-income communities. The authors argue that while AI can optimize energy systems, its current development lacks gender diversity and funding for SDG5 (Gender Equality). The report recommends increasing women's representation in STEM, implementing gender-lens investing, and ensuring women are decision-makers in AI and energy policy to achieve a just transition.

The audit report by Mazars Austria GmbH concludes that the financial statements of Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) for the 2022 fiscal year were prepared in accordance with Austrian Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and the Austrian Association Act. The organization's total assets grew significantly to $87.1 million from $26.5 million in 2021, primarily driven by an increase in donor income to $80.9 million. The auditors found no material weaknesses in internal controls and no substantial doubt regarding the organization's ability to continue as a going concern. Key expenditures in 2022 included $8.7 million for personnel, $6.6 million for consultancy fees supporting projects in Sierra Leone and Malawi, and $2.3 million for events and communications, including the SEforALL Forum in Kigali.

The report evaluates Malawi's progress toward clean cooking goals, highlighting a significant gap between current ownership and 2030 targets. It identifies affordability and low stove durability as primary barriers, estimating a $108.8M investment needed for the Compact scenario and $246.0M for the more ambitious IEP scenario. The IEP scenario envisions a total phase-out of fuelwood and charcoal by leveraging universal electrification for e-cooking and expanding biofuels. The report emphasizes the need for durable stoves, innovative financing, and regional strategies, particularly in the Northern region, to reduce health risks and gender-based time burdens associated with fuel collection.

The report evaluates Malawi's vaccine supply chain, finding that while most health facilities have sufficient cold chain equipment (CCE) capacity for routine and COVID-19 vaccines, there are significant gaps in equipment age, PQS compliance, and energy reliability. It estimates a total investment of USD $21.2 million is required to provide standalone solar power to off-grid facilities and hybrid solar-battery systems to grid-tied facilities to ensure cold chain resiliency.

The report argues that energy and mobility sectors must move from silos to synergies to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It identifies 19 priority countries and 260 cities, categorizing them into four types: Efficiency Opportunists, Digital Disruptors, Electric Vehicle Leapfroggers, and Renewable Drivers. The document proposes three primary solutions: integrated energy, land-use, and mobility planning; demand-side targeting and management using digital tools; and the deployment of electric mobility (specifically buses and two-wheelers). It highlights a significant financing gap for sustainable transport in small cities and recommends cross-sector alliances and improved spatial data to attract investment.

The document explores how battery storage can enable eCooking in areas with weak, unreliable, or non-existent electricity grids. It specifically proposes a Battery Swapping Model (BSM) where users lease batteries from a central station, reducing upfront capital burdens and ensuring professional battery maintenance. The paper identifies a 'Goldilocks Zone' for this model—informal urban settlements, humanitarian settings, and mini-grid edges—where population density and proximity to stations make daily swaps practical. It concludes that while promising, the BSM requires targeted pilots to determine financial and operational viability.

The report evaluates the extent to which gender considerations are embedded in national energy policies and the corporate practices of energy companies. It utilizes a scoring system to analyze female participation, economic empowerment, education, and labor rights across different income levels and energy sectors, including renewable energy, energy efficiency, and electrification.

The document evaluates biofuel production in southern Africa, finding that sugarcane generally improves food security and reduces poverty, while jatropha's benefits are unproven or precarious. It highlights a trade-off where sugarcane can increase carbon stocks but displace food crops, whereas jatropha plantations in Mozambique caused substantial carbon stock losses. The brief also notes that high costs hinder the adoption of ethanol cooking stoves in urban Mozambique despite their potential to reduce charcoal-driven deforestation.

The project, running from October 2013 to October 2015, seeks to identify strategies to minimize trade-offs between biofuel production and rural wellbeing in sub-Saharan Africa. It employs field-based research at case study sites in Malawi, Swaziland, and Mozambique, focusing on sugar cane and jatropha feedstocks. The study examines various ecosystem services—including climate regulation and water—and dimensions of poverty such as food security and energy poverty, with a specific focus on Malawi's long-term experience with biofuel blending in transport fuel.

This report argues that transforming gender relations in sub-Saharan African agriculture is essential for improving agricultural productivity, food security, and overall human development. It posits a causal link between gender equality in households and communities and better agricultural outcomes, asserting that standard development interventions cannot fully succeed unless women and men are on equal footing.

The text examines the barriers women face in accessing land in Sub-Saharan Africa, specifically the limitations of customary land tenure and 'gender-neutral' reforms. It highlights that direct land access improves household food security and provides essential collateral for credit. Through case studies in Kenya, Zimbabwe, and Zambia, the document demonstrates how legal reforms, grassroots activism, and community-level 'Watchdog Groups' can secure women's land rights, while emphasizing that legal changes must be accompanied by shifts in social norms and provision of agricultural inputs to be effective.

The report examines how gender inequalities in sub-Saharan Africa hinder agricultural productivity and proposes an 'empowerment pathway' focusing on agency, structure, and relations. It provides evidence that closing the gender gap in resource access could increase farm yields by 20-30%. Through case studies in countries like Kenya, Zambia, Ethiopia, and Uganda, the document illustrates successful strategies including gender-responsive budgeting, household-level gender analysis, and the engagement of traditional leaders to secure women's land rights and improve value chain participation. It also addresses the specific intersection of gender and 'climate-smart' agriculture, emphasizing that women's vulnerability to climate change is exacerbated by existing structural inequalities.

The report analyzes how rigid gender norms, lack of capital, and limited asset ownership prevent women from benefiting from agricultural commercialization in Sub-Saharan Africa. It highlights that women often perform the bulk of the labor but lack control over the resulting income, which can lead to poor product quality and reduced household nutrition. The document provides a strategic framework for interventions, ranging from professionalizing traditional 'women's crops' to redistributive actions that challenge male-dominated chains. Case studies from Kenya (SHEP) and Zimbabwe (ZOPPA) demonstrate that combining gender awareness training with technical capacity building and organic certification can improve income parity and market access for women farmers.

The document outlines a methodology for tracking nature-based solutions (NBS) investments in sub-Saharan Africa by scanning multilateral development bank portfolios. Between 2012 and 2021, the World Bank and African Development Bank led 85 NBS-related projects with combined total budgets of $12.1 billion, of which $4.5 billion was specifically for NBS components. The research identifies Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo as the countries with the highest project counts and notes that NBS are being used to address urban flooding, coastal flooding, and water security while providing co-benefits for biodiversity and carbon sequestration.

This World Resources Institute working paper reports on three workshops held in Asia, Africa, and Latin America to identify challenges developing countries face in monitoring and tracking climate finance. It details nine primary technical, political, and capacity barriers, ranging from inconsistent definitions and lack of institutional coordination to the limited transparency of development partners and the difficulty of tracking private financial data.