With 50 years of expertise, Practical Action has a strong heritage and track record of bringing communities and experts together to find practical, sustainable solutions to enable people to meet their needs, which work for both people and the planet. Technology features in everything we do.
This post is for a Humanitarian Energy Technical Analyst for Practical Action’s...
The University of Nottingham team up with the Women’s Cultural Exchange (part of the Nottingham Refugee Forum) for a bake-off event.
On Monday 14 th September 2015, the University of Nottingham hosted the Great African Bake-Off where academics, policy makers and practitioners were invited to observe volunteers from the Women’s Cultural Exchange cook delicious food from a range of Sub-Saharan African countries (including Nigeria, Eritrea, Sudan, and Malawi) on a variety of Improved Cookstoves...
Department of Anthropology, Dawson Building, Durham University campus.
The Department of Anthropology at Durham University seeks to appoint a talented individual to the role of Assistant Professor. Applications are welcomed from those with research and teaching interests in the broad field of social anthropology and they are particularly eager to hear from applicants with a focus on the environment and/or energy.
For further information about this post (Durham...
Practical Action is recruiting a Global Energy Representative to join their Energy Access team. The successful candidate will help to shape and lead their strategy of external influencing and partnership building, catalysing strategic activities across the organisation and sector to help speed up progress on energy access globally.
While ideally based in Rugby, Warwickshire (UK), for an exceptional candidate they will consider applying for a work permit or being based in one of their...
Invitation to ENERGIA Webinar 2: Empowering women through delivering increased energy access. 27 June 2018 ENERGIA's Gender and Energy Research Programme
You are invited to participate in the second of two upcoming ENERGIA webinars to be held on 27 June (14:30pm-16:00pm CET).
Please find enclosed further details of this webinar, you can click on the link provided in the PDF, or given below, to...
The Pan African University Institute of Water and Energy Sciences (including Climate Change), ‘PAUWES’ (based in Tlemcen, Algeria) is inviting committed academics (and professionals) to apply and join the team of PAUWES.
The detailed vacancy announcement, the job descriptions and pre-requirements are included in the link below.
Interested applicants should fill-up the form that could be found at this link before July...
The Ashden Conference 2018 promises to be a really exciting event
Many of the barriers to financing sustainable energy, and particularly off-grid access, are widely recognised. Decentralised solutions receive just 1% of energy access finance that is being tracked. Lender requirements and transaction costs, along with the lack of local currency financing and challenging policy environments remain key obstacles. Barriers to finance are even...
Registration is open for the upcoming May webinar, hosted by Smart Villages and the LCEDN, entitled:
'The Minigrid Game' Tue, May 15th, 2018, 13:00 - 14:30 PM GMT
Minigrids. They're one of the most attractive models for remote community electrification. They're scalable, and flexible, and capable of supplying power at levels that really permit productive use to be made of the power. But at the same time, they raise alot of questions - what...
Practical Action is excited to be recruiting a Global Energy Representative to join our growing Energy Access team. The successful candidate will drive Practical Action’s strategy of external influencing and partnership building; catalysing strategic activities across the organisation (and sector), to speed up progress on energy access amongst key public, private, and civil society players.
The role will be based in Rugby, Warwickshire, in the UK. The closing date for applications is...
Invitation to stakeholder meeting in Malawi for the newly launched:
Kukolola Agribusiness Innovation Hub (KAIH)
The Mentorship and Philanthropic Centre, Seeds of Opportunity and Northern Alliance Financing Corporation Ltd (the Implementers) are pleased to announce the launch of the Kukolola Agribusiness Innovation Hub (KAIH). Africa is a food insecure continent that has a food import bill of over US$35 billion annually, and this figure is anticipated to increase to US$110...
