This webpage provides an introduction to smart grids, an overview of recent progress and recommendations for governments and utilities.
This guide by the Covenant of Mayors of Sub-Saharan Africa shows that urban planning tends to be gender blind, with the design of urban street lighting as a key example. It provides a manual, aimed at African cities, on how to develop gender-responsive public lighting projects. English: https://comssa.org/download/rxeWs6zcOXbTl8qRidGZ9nCB7EFAI4Pa/Gender-sensitive-public-lighting.pdf French: https://comssa.org/download/U3kjdTBHqV6FGKfoI71EgLY2wZrSvtz8/Eclairage-public-sensible-au-genre.pdf
This is a how-to-guide by the RRC.AP for practitioners developing GCF projects. It explains the importance of an exit strategy, different exit strategy approaches, and the process for formulating an exit strategy. It also provides good practice examples.
This guide by the WWF explains the process of developing a monitoring, evaluation and learning plan for your project.
This page is part of a UNDP guide to enterprise risk management (ERM). It explains how to identify risks, how to classify them and how to determine a response.
This guide walks you through the different stages of developing a logical framework for a climate project. It was written for practitioners developing concepts for large Green Climate Fund programmes, so you may not need to include all of the aspects in your proposal, but it is nonetheless useful to know what funders like to … Continue reading “Developing a Basic Logical Framework for your Concept Note”
This slide deck explains briefly, and using visuals and examples, how to develop a theory of change and logical framework for your project.
These two blogs (available in English and Spanish) explain why you should undertake stakeholder mapping, how to go about it, and how to engage the stakeholders you have identified.
This report highlights the importance of sector coupling as a key source of flexibility that cities can explore to stabilise power grid operations when integrating high shares of variable renewable energy sources. It presents a range of sector coupling opportunities available for use in cities, including self-consumption of variable RE sources, the role of thermal … Continue reading “Sector Coupling in Facilitating Integration of Variable Renewable Energy in Cities”
This website contains a range of learning resources on Integrated Resource Planning (a methodology for least-cost planning by public utilities), including load forecasting, tariff policies, amd demand side management. It also includes exercises and case studies.