The aim of the scoping study was to gainan understanding of the productive activities slum dwellersengage in that rely on energy services and the potentialsand challenges of slums in Ghana regarding access to modernenergy services and income generation from productiveactivities. The objective of the ESMED-EAfUP (Energy SectorManagement Assistance Program - ESMAP/SME Development -Energy Access for the Urban Poor) programme is 'tocreate and sustain a network of energy practitioners tosupport development of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises(MSME) as users and providers of modern energy services forslum upgrading programs.'. Using ability to adopt saferand modern energy forms as a criterion in assessing theeffective deployment of safer and modern energy forms, thestudy concluded that the high propensity to save is anopportunity for their deployment if they can be sensitizedabout the benefits of using modern energy forms, which manyof the slum dwellers are not aware of. Most enterpriseowners could also capitalize on the credit policies of thefinancial institutions they saved with to adopt the modernenergy forms. Lack of education and limited awareness aboutthe benefits of using clean, efficient and improved energyforms were some of the reasons for the use of inefficientand illegal energy forms among the slum dwellers. The studyrecommends awareness creation among the slum dwellers aboutthe benefits of using legal, clean and efficient energyforms in productive enterprises, which the Non-GovernmentalOrganizations (NGOs) can take up. A major benefit of thisstudy which is worth mentioning is the learning and sharingthat took place among the research team because apart fromthe findings of this study that unraveled some relevantinformation that many stakeholders working in the cities ofGhana did not know about slums, there was also a lot ofsharing of experiences that took place.
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