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SEI Africa’s work focuses on three key areas: energy and climate change, natural resources and ecosystems, and sustainable urbanisation.
SEI Africa’s research programme on energy and climate change seeks to explore and support socially inclusive, low-carbon and climate resilient development pathways at multiple levels. SEI’s Long-Range Energy Planning (LEAP) software tool supports analysis of potential energy pathways and how they affect other development objectives and resource use. In parallel to our scenario modelling work, we explore issues of knowledge, power and participation in order to unpack governance at multiple levels.
Photo: Mbeo Ogeya / SEI.
The programme focuses on key natural resources, with priority attention to water and sanitation, land and biodiversity and ecosystems management. The programme aims to generate and disseminate knowledge and solutions for addressing sustainable natural resources management and their contribution to economies, livelihoods and human wellbeing across Africa. Capacity building is also at the core of our work, including working collaboratively with local communities, policy makers, private sector and civil society entities. We also support policy makers’ access and use a suite of decision support tools, including WEAP (Water Evaluation and Planning), and CLEANED (Comprehensive Livestock and Aquaculture Environmental Assessment for Improved Nutrition).
Photo: Tom Ogol / SEI.
SEI Africa’s managing urban change programme aims to explore challenges related to rapid urbanization and to contribute to identifying and supporting more sustainable urbanization pathways in sub-Saharan Africa. Our sustainable urbanization work focuses on indoor and outdoor air quality assessment and monitoring in cities, using the citizen science approach; inclusive and sustainable transport and urban mobility; development of urban green spaces; and integration of informal settlement upgrading into planned urban development.
Photo: Cassilde Muhoza / SEI.
Project / On behalf of CCAC, UNEP is cooperating with SEI to support the Ministry of Environment and Forestry of Kenya under SNAP.
Project / A scientifically robust and policy-relevant framework to identify and assess priority measures that maximize the multiple-benefits for air quality and climate.
Project / Air quality drivers for sub-Saharan Africa (AQD-Nairobi) identifies drivers of exposure through measurements of air pollutants and air quality monitoring.
Project / Research and Learning for Sustainable Intensification of Smallholder Livestock Value Chains in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia and Tanzania (ResLeSS).
Project / Transition pathways and risk analysis for climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies (TRANSrisk) is creating a new assessment framework.
Project / This project forms the basis of engagement plan for the household energy paper, “Bringing clean, safe, affordable cooking energy to households across Africa"
Project / A project to assess levels of knowledge and people's understandings of air pollution and see whether this changes over time.
Project / Evaluating the opportunities for biofuels to contribute to poverty reduction, food security and energy access.
Project / Aims to test whether targeted financial incentives can succeed in changing hard-to-change behaviours; in this case using maternal and child health services.
Project / SuSanA is promoting the implementation of sustainable sanitation systems in large scale water and sanitation programmes.
Project / Implementing Creative Methodological Innovations for Inclusive Sustainable Transport Planning (i-CMiiST) explored creative co-design methods for safer streets.
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