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Ekurhuleni Growth & Development Strategy 2025
The GDS 2025 reflects not only the thinking of the Municipality’s leadership, but also captures the inputs of our many development partners and stakeholders. Every citizen in Ekurhuleni can make a co
Organisation: Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality
Publish Date: August 2005
Electricity Supply Options, Sustainable Development and Climate Change Priorities - Case Studies for South Africa
This report summarizes the results of the Projecting future energy demand: Balancing development, energy and climate priorities in large developing economies project that has been managed by the UNEP
Organisation: UNEP Risoe Centre
Publish Date: September 2007
Electrifying the Bottom of the Pyramid: Improving Access in Slums
Slums are expanding in Latin America, Asia, and Africa, and as a result, the lack of safe, reliable electricity access in these regions is expanding. Addressing this issue will require a comprehensiv
Organisation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Publish Date: 2010
ELMR: Lightweight Mobile Health Records
Cell phones are increasingly being used as common clients for a wide suite of distributed, database-centric healthcare applications in developing regions. This is particularly true for rural developi
Organisation: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Publish Date: 2009
Ending Africa’s Poverty Trap
According to the analysis in this paper, the crucial ingredient to breaking Africa’s poverty trap is for the rest of the world to help African economies to reach threshold levels of capital of variou
Organisation: Jeffrey D. Sachs, John W. McArthur, Guido Schmidt-Traub, Margaret Kruk, Chandrika Bahadur, Michael F
Publish Date: 2004
Ending hunger in Africa: The elimination of hunger and food insecurity on the African by 2025: Conditions for success
The African Union has set a target to “eliminate hunger and food insecurity by 2025.” Both Agenda 2063 and the African Union Summit decision on Accelerated Agricultural Growth and Transformation have
Organisation: NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency, Frederick S. Pardee Center for International Futures; University of Denver
Publish Date: September 2016
Ending Malnutrition by 2020: an Agenda for Change in the Millennium
If current trends continue, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) predicts that the numbers of underweight (weight-for-age
Organisation: United Nations ACC/SCN
Publish Date: 2000
Energy - Technology Innovation
Energy-technology innovation (ETI) is the set of processes leading to new or improved energy technologies that can augment energy resources; enhance the quality of energy services; and reduce the eco
Organisation: Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour. 2006. 31:193–237
Publish Date: 2006
Energy Descent Pathways - evaluating potential responses to Peak Oil
Provides a literature review on “peak oil”, the hypothesized peaking in world oil production. Notes that for Western societies dependent on supplies of cheap oil and gas, a rapid and unplanned for di
Organisation: University of Plymouth
Publish Date: September 2006
Energy Shocks and Emerging Alternative Energy Technologies
This paper focuses on transport fuel security and implications of GHG emission reductions as two key shocks potentially facing national and global energy systems. A plethora of alternative technolog
Organisation: CSRIO Sustainable Ecosystems, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Publish Date: July 2010