The adverse impacts of climate change seem to be ramping up. These effects are more exacerbated in developing countries where most economies are reliant on the agricultural sector, leaving them exposed to the ravaging effects of extreme weather patterns, water scarcity and soil degradation, which have led to reduced productivity
Reflections from AICCEES 2024: Driving Africa’s Energy Future Written by Nuvoni Post Date October 30, 2024 Category News 38 Views shares X Facebook LinkedIn Introduction The […]
Established institutions, including universities, research organizations, and government bodies, are playing a pivotal role in scaling climate-smart agriculture (CSA).
As the global energy transition gains momentum, Africa faces significant challenges, including the high cost of renewable technologies, limited local technical expertise, and fragmented policies.
The KNeCS offers a powerful new direction for accelerating the clean cooking transition in Kenya, especially by integrating electric cooking (eCooking) into the broader agenda.
The workshop aimed to validate various aspects related to digital hubs, including the locations of the sites, digital needs and challenges, services and facilities offered by the hubs, as well as their management and sustainability.
These concepts all aim to facilitate digital growth in communities using different strategies. They have been applied in designing a digital hub for Mathare, with the goal of creating a model that can be replicated in other informal settlements.
The community pointed out that their digital needs were access to information, CBC learning, digital literacy and online marketing as well as accessing social media and other entertainment sites.
Participants discussed ways of tackling research waste, which predominantly included community engagement from research conceptualization to dissemination and openly sharing data and research outputs with the community and other stakeholders in the Mathare.
The workshop provided an avenue for cross-pollination and inter-city learning through presentations and participatory design sessions.
The newly launched Urban Research and Collaboration Hub will generate knowledge on vulnerability and resilience, inclusivity and frugal innovations, and informal disaster risk governance mechanisms in the next three years, while collaborating with like-minded organizations to catalyze impactful research and actions
Dr. Abigael Okoko participated in the DSA 2022 conference panel on Understanding the Lived Experience of Energy Poverty in The Global North and South, by presenting and discussing the paper, Are mini grids a solution to energy poverty? A case of mini-grids in Kenya.