Democracy and the Distribution of NGOs Promoting Renewable Energy in Africa

Roughly 60 per cent of Africans lack access to electricity, negatively impacting development opportunities. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have started promoting distributed generation – small-scale, localized electricity generation – to change this situation. Despite widespread need, however...

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Main Authors:	MacLean, Lauren M., Brass, Jennifer N., Carley, Sanya, El-Arini, Ashraf, Breen, Scott
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	Taylor and Francis 2015
Subjects:	nongovernamental organization NGOs distributed generation electricity production electric power political environment renewable energy solar energy
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22647

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spelling	okr-10986-226472021-04-23T14:04:10Z Democracy and the Distribution of NGOs Promoting Renewable Energy in Africa MacLean, Lauren M. Brass, Jennifer N. Carley, Sanya El-Arini, Ashraf Breen, Scott nongovernamental organization NGOs distributed generation electricity production electric power political environment renewable energy solar energy Roughly 60 per cent of Africans lack access to electricity, negatively impacting development opportunities. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have started promoting distributed generation – small-scale, localized electricity generation – to change this situation. Despite widespread need, however, the dispersion of these distributed generation NGOs (DG-NGOs) is uneven, with high concentrations in a few African countries. Drawing on an original database and field research, the authors analyze location variation among DG-NGOs across the continent. This article finds that DG-NGOs are likely to operate in democratic settings with large populations that lack access to electricity. International DG-NGOs are also likely to operate where aid allocation levels are relatively high. 2015-09-21T22:19:22Z 2015-09-21T22:19:22Z 2015-06-05 Journal Article The Journal of Development Studies 0022-0388 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22647 en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Taylor and Francis Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Journal Article Africa Kenya
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spellingShingle	nongovernamental organization NGOs distributed generation electricity production electric power political environment renewable energy solar energy MacLean, Lauren M. Brass, Jennifer N. Carley, Sanya El-Arini, Ashraf Breen, Scott Democracy and the Distribution of NGOs Promoting Renewable Energy in Africa
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description	Roughly 60 per cent of Africans lack access to electricity, negatively impacting development opportunities. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have started promoting distributed generation – small-scale, localized electricity generation – to change this situation. Despite widespread need, however, the dispersion of these distributed generation NGOs (DG-NGOs) is uneven, with high concentrations in a few African countries. Drawing on an original database and field research, the authors analyze location variation among DG-NGOs across the continent. This article finds that DG-NGOs are likely to operate in democratic settings with large populations that lack access to electricity. International DG-NGOs are also likely to operate where aid allocation levels are relatively high.
format	Journal Article
author	MacLean, Lauren M. Brass, Jennifer N. Carley, Sanya El-Arini, Ashraf Breen, Scott
author_facet	MacLean, Lauren M. Brass, Jennifer N. Carley, Sanya El-Arini, Ashraf Breen, Scott
author_sort	MacLean, Lauren M.
title	Democracy and the Distribution of NGOs Promoting Renewable Energy in Africa
title_short	Democracy and the Distribution of NGOs Promoting Renewable Energy in Africa
title_full	Democracy and the Distribution of NGOs Promoting Renewable Energy in Africa
title_fullStr	Democracy and the Distribution of NGOs Promoting Renewable Energy in Africa
title_full_unstemmed	Democracy and the Distribution of NGOs Promoting Renewable Energy in Africa
title_sort	democracy and the distribution of ngos promoting renewable energy in africa
publisher	Taylor and Francis
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Democracy and the Distribution of NGOs Promoting Renewable Energy in Africa

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