Initiative for Sustainable Energy Policy (ISEP)

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The Initiative for Sustainable Energy Policy – is an interdisciplinary research program that uses cutting-edge social and behavioral science to design, test, and implement better energy policies in emerging economies.

Hosted at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), ISEP identifies and pursues opportunities for policy reforms that allow emerging economies to achieve human development at minimal economic and environmental costs. The initiative pursues such opportunities both pro-actively, with continuous policy innovation and bold ideas, and by responding to policymakers’ demands and needs in sustained engagement and dialogue.

Why Wait? Seizing the Energy Access Dividend

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01 Nov 2017

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This report addresses a pressing need to understand what is lost in terms of human and economic development by delaying improved energy access. The report quantifies the foregone benefits of delays by analyzing energy access in various countries.

Developed in collaboration with Power for All, the report explores the concept of an energy access dividend, which decision makers can expect by providing electricity access to populations more quickly. It assigns a specific economic, social and environmental value that households and countries can expect by receiving and delivering different tiers of electricity service. Such a dividend would allow decision makers to estimate the benefits of delivering electricity access faster through decentralized electricity solutions rather than through more conventional, centralized grid-based approaches. These conventional approaches are proven to be more time consuming and expensive.

In the first iteration, the Energy Access Dividend provides estimates for Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Kenya and focuses on financial savings, educational benefits and climate benefits – a subset of the benefits of electrification.

Latin America & Caribbeans Regional Hub

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The SEforALL IDB Latin America and Caribbean Hub is hosted by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and its mission is to facilitate the implementation of Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) in Latin America and the Caribbean region. LAC Regional Hub launched a partnership between the IDB, the UN Development Programme’s (UNDP) Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, and the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UNECLAC) to help coordinate activities and information related to SEforALL in the region. The Latin America Energy Organization (OLADE) joined the hub as a fourth partner in 2015.