Growing demand, improving wellbeing: opportunities for overcoming low electricity demand in sub-Saharan Africa - NOTE ON METHODOLOGY

Similarly, a failure to boost produce the desired development outcomes demand at the time of connection contributes that governments and development partners to the low levels of energy demand we currently want to see. [...] This is programmes and strategies deployed by energy a key challenge for utilities wanting to sustain utilities to boost energy demand in Europe, Asia, their financial health and for governments and North and South America. [...] Finally, and as emphasised by the interviewees, universal access to electricity and growing Where utilities are unable to offer the financing demand are difficult to achieve without subsidies. [...] Such financing initiatives can design (ESMAP et al., 2021) and safety nets benefit both the customer and the provider: (SEforALL, 2020) can inform how to best structure the former gets access to appliances they the subsidy and what levels to set it at in order to would otherwise be unable to afford, and the best serve the poorest and most vulnerable. [...] Governments and development partners access to electricity has not proven to be enough should go beyond the provision of connections to catalyse socio-economic development and to implement projects that positively impact more holistic approaches tailored to local contexts wellbeing and livelihood creation.