Democracy and the Distribution of NGOs Promoting Renewable Energy in Africa

• Tác giả: Lauren M MacLean
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 342.26 Constitutional and administrative law
• Thông tin xuất bản: Taylor and Francis, 2015
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 317440
• Chủ đề: 1. distributed generation; 2. electric power; 3. electricity production; 4. NGOs; 5. nongovernamental organization

Tóm tắt

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.