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The Kasabela mobile application is a field survey tool that provides accurate, real-time data to inform evidence-based decision making.

• 11/02/2023
• Dr. Asclepias Rachmi Soerjono, Istu Septania

This documentary from USAID's Modern Cooking for Healthy Forests in Malawi explains the factors that exacerbate illegal charcoal production, transportation, and sale in urban areas of charcoal demand.

• 12/08/2022
• USAID Modern Cooking for Healthy Forests

Kandodo markets biogas solutions from his start-up EcoGen, and now he sees farmers in a different light: a source of large amounts of organic waste and a target for fertilizer.

• 12/06/2022
• USAID Modern Cooking for Healthy Forests

With a presence in 100 countries and more than 10,000 staff globally, USAID has a unique and timely opportunity to help reshape the renewable energy ecosystem and promote the adoption of a circular economy approach to renewable energy, plastics, and other sectors – helping to shift the balance of natural resource use for all our stuff from one of waste and disposability to one of sustainability while providing and creating new economic opportunities.

• 10/24/2022
• Gillian Caldwell

The USAID Climate Team, anticipating many questions from Missions and implementing partners, collaborated with Climatelinks to offer a series of three webinars introducing the strategy and offering examples of how some Missions—Mexico, the Regional Development Mission for Asia (RDMA), and Morocco—are already implementing it.

• 05/24/2022
• Christine Chumbler

Do you have great photos of changemakers in climate and development? Do you want to promote your work on Climatelinks? Now is your chance!

• 05/17/2022
• Climatelinks

Over the last five years, the Government of Nepal has made large strides in modernizing its electricity sector.

• 04/06/2022
• Sri Sekar

Libya has vast energy resources. With electricity prices heavily subsidized by the national government and people experiencing daily power outages, public awareness of the need to conserve energy is limited.

• 04/20/2021
• Valerie Gwinner

The USAID Climate Economic Analysis for Development, Investment and Resilience (CEADIR) activity designed and implemented a regional activity to accelerate CE private sector investment aligned with national climate change commitments (e.g., Nationally Determined Contributions or NDCs) and CE policy objectives in the target countries of India, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam.

• 12/30/2019
• Marketlinks Team

The clean energy sector has seen rapid growth. Countries around the world have embraced these technologies to achieve low emission development goals, increase infrastructure resilience and energy access, and reduce reliance on imported fossil fuels.

• 11/07/2019
• Derina Man

Understanding the economic impacts of renewable energy development is critical to reaching scale in the clean energy transition.

• 10/02/2019
• Sadie Cox, Isabel McCan

In March 2019, the Government of Haiti released an official request for proposals as part of a broader plan to support the development of minigrids. Minigrids generally involve small-scale electricity generation and can advance energy transitions in rural areas by enabling a power supply for communities lacking reliable electricity.

• 09/26/2019
• Alexis Powers, Sadie Cox

Because of the wide array of threats faced by modern energy systems, power sector resilience is increasingly important. It is critical for policymakers, planners, and system operators to safeguard their power systems from these threats by proactively planning for future needs and investing in resilient power systems.

• 09/03/2019
• Sadie Cox, Isabel McCan