UNHCR – Renewable Energy for Sustainable Living

Food

Education

Security & Safety

Health

Socialisation

ACCESS TO

` SUSTAINABLE ENERGY

ENVIRONMENT

LIVELIHOODS

UNHCR & Safe Access to Fuel & Energy

• Energy historically not a priority area for UNHCR/humanitarian sector

• Increasing awareness of needs along with global recognition of energy & fuel poverty

• UNHCR Global SAFE Strategy 2014-2018

• 3 streams

• Energy for Cooking (fuel and stoves protection)

• Energy for Lighting (household, communal and institutional protection)

• Electricity (electricity for livelihoods, communications, solar water pumping, operations)

• National strategies in Burkina Faso, Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda (2014); Djibouti, Nepal, South Sudan, Sudan, Uganda (2015)

Renewable Energy

Solutions

Solar

Biogas

Wind Hybrids

Wastes

Expertise & staff resources