The Locally led action and equitable partnerships for clean energy access webinar discussed locally-led projects and equitable partnership approaches supported through the Ayrton Fund which are driving energy access and innovation in emerging economies. Our panel of experts provided insight, examples and recommendations to support locally-led action and equitable partnerships across the sector.
The webinar also launched the latest Ayrton Fund report.
Key takeaways from the webinar included:
- Local stakeholders must be engaged from the earliest stages of project design to support successful, sustainable and equitable interventions, ensuring that projects are demand driven and co-created with local actors.
- Building local capacity, investing in institutional infrastructure and ensuring local leadership can ensure that projects last into the long-term and support continuity beyond the project cycle.
- Locally-led projects mean that local actors define the vision, set the questions that they want to address and lead the process. External partners can support this local leadership – but it is about shifting from implementation for countries to implementing with countries.
- There is no single approach to locally-led partnerships – every country, institution and process is different. Flexibility is not optional, it is essential.
- Ongoing dialogue is crucial, we must embrace tensions and disagreements in order to learn and move forward.
Watch the full webinar below.