Democracy and the Distribution of NGOs Promoting Renewable Energy in Africa

Lauren M. MacLean, Jennifer N. Brass, Sanya Carley, Ashraf El-Arini and Scott Breen

Journal of Development Studies, 2015, vol. 51, issue 6, 725-742

Abstract: Roughly 60 per cent of Africans lack access to electricity, negatively impacting development opportunities. Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have started promoting distributed generation - small-scale, localised electricity generation - to change this situation. Despite widespread need, however, the dispersion of these distributed generation NGOs (DG-NGOs) is uneven, with high concentrations in a few African countries. Drawing on an original database and field research, we analyse location variation among DG-NGOs across the continent. We find that DG-NGOs are likely to operate in democratic settings with large populations that lack access to electricity. International DG-NGOs are also likely to operate where aid allocation levels are relatively high.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2014.989994

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