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Country case studies by:
Kenya: Practical Action Consulting
Ghana: KITE
South Africa: Economic Justice
Network
Ethiopia: Ethio Resource Group
Rwanda: Climate and Development
Centre, Smith School of Enterprise and
the Environment, University of Oxford
Nigeria: International Centre
for Energy, Environment and
Development (ICEED)
Full-length country case studies
are available from:
christianaid.org.uk/low-carbon-africa
Lead authors
Dr Alison Doig, Senior Adviser,
Climate Change and Sustainable
Development, Christian Aid
Alison has worked for 20 years in
the international development and
environment sectors, specialising
in climate change and clean energy.
At Christian Aid she leads the policy
agenda on climate change and
sustainable development, supporting
the organisation’s advocacy in the UK,
Europe and at the United Nations.
Mohamed Adow, Senior Adviser,
Global Advocacy and Alliances,
Christian Aid
Mohamed, a Kenyan, leads Christian
Aid’s global climate advocacy work.
He observes the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate
Change and other climate change and
sustainable development negotiations,
where he engages and influences
governments and other stakeholders
in favour of the world’s poor people
and countries. Mohamed has worked
in Africa for nine years, helping
to improve drought management
capacities, disaster risk reduction and
climate adaptation. Since January
2011, he has been based in London.
With input from:
Sarah Standley, SJS Climate
Associates; Cat Smith, Practical
Action Consulting; Tom Athanasiou,
EcoEquity; and Sivan Kartha,
Stockholm Environment Institute
Partner organisations
Practical Action Consulting (PAC)
is the consulting arm of the
international non-governmental
organisation Practical Action, which
has been a leader in the field of
development consultancy for more
than 40 years. Practical Action uses
technology to challenge poverty,
working with poor people around
the world.
SJS Climate Associates is an
independent research consultancy
specialising in the inter-linkages
between poverty, environment,
climate change, economics and
social issues.
EcoEquity is a small, activist thinktank
that has had a significant
impact on the international climate
justice debate. It has done this
primarily, but not exclusively,
through the Greenhouse
Development Rights project.
The Pan-African Climate Justice
Alliance (PACJA) fully endorses
this report and will advocate for
the leapfrog fund – outlined on
p35 – and other recommendations
presented in this report for Africa
and internationally.
KITE
KITE is a Ghanaian not-for-profit
development organisation and
a leading actor in the energy,
technology and environment
sectors in Ghana and the West
Africa subregion.
Economic Justice Network
The Economic Justice Network
(EJN) is a project of FOCCISA, the
Fellowship of Christian Councils
in Southern Africa. FOCISSA is an
ecumenical organisation working
with 11 national councils of churches
in southern Africa. EJN works
to harness the resources of the
southern African region for all of
its people, with a view to bringing
about economic justice.
Ethio Resource Group
Ethio Resource Group (ERG) is a
consultancy group based in Addis
Ababa, which works on energy
policy and renewable energy
technology installation.
Climate and Development
Centre, Smith School of
Enterprise and the
Environment, University of
Oxford
The aim of the Climate and
Development Centre is to help
developing countries and their
development partners understand
climate impacts, and identify
opportunities and design strategies
for effective climate adaptation and
low-carbon development.
International Centre for
Energy, Environment and
Development
The think-tank International Centre
for Energy, Environment and
Development (ICEED) provides
ideas that link energy and climate
change policy reforms to prosperity
for Nigeria’s poor.