 Inclusion of Namibian rural communities in green energy access and use: Requirements elicitation or community-based-co-design?Chris Muashekele, Kasper Rodil, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus and Alphons Koruhama Development Southern Africa, 2024, vol. 41, issue 6, 1098-1116 Abstract: Energy exclusion is prevalent throughout Africa, leading to a myriad of energy access projects, technologies, interventions and approaches being explored to address a phenomenon affecting over half the continent's predominantly rural population. This is exhibited in a recent EU-funded energy access project involving partners, researchers and communities working across many African countries employing various approaches. In this paper, we unfold the employment of two divergent approaches, requirements elicitation and community-based co-design, in an attempt to determine and advance green energy inclusion and innovative use in a low-income, off-grid rural Namibian community. Thereafter, we reflect on the use of each approach, highlighting the need for an elevated and provocative approach that enables innovative and unorthodox energy inclusion permitting energy access and productive use in rural African communities. Date: 2024 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:deveza:v:41:y:2024:i:6:p:1098-1116 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1080/0376835X.2024.2380724 Access Statistics for this article Development Southern Africa is currently edited by Marie Kirsten More articles in Development Southern Africa from Taylor & Francis Journals |
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