Democracy and the Distribution of NGOs Promoting Renewable Energy in Africa

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

Taylor and Francis

关键词: nongovernamental organization;    NGOs;    distributed generation;    electricity production;    electric power;   

DOI  :  10.1080/00220388.2014.989994

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

Roughly 60 per cent of Africans lack access to electricity, negatively impacting development opportunities. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have started promoting distributed generation – small-scale, localized 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, the authors analyze location variation among DG-NGOs across the continent. This article finds 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.