India Environment Portal Knowledge for change

Kamal Rijal

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  Decentralized energy access and the Millennium Development Goals: an analysis of the development benefits of micro hydropower in rural Nepal

  This study highlights the development benefits resulting from access to electricity for rural and remote communities in Nepal. It is based on the successful expansion of the Rural Energy Development Programme

  • 01/12/2011

  • UNDP
  • • Hydroelectricity
    • Nepal
    • Rural Electrification
    • Energy
    • Development
    • Rural Energy
    • Electricity
    • South Asia

• Capacity development for scaling up decentralized energy access programmes

  This study highlights the central role of capacity development for scaling up rural energy service delivery and to catalyze private financing for achieving universal energy access and the MDGs. Although it takes considerable upfront public investment to kick-start capacity development, once these investments have been made they can attract substantial financing from private sources.

  • 01/06/2010

  • UNDP
  • • Development
    • Energy
    • Rural Energy
    • Energy Technology
    • Rural Electrification
    • Finance
    • Private Sector
    • Nepal
    • New York
    • UNDP
    • & et al
    • Elisabeth Clemens
    • Kamal Rijal
    • Minoru Takada