Prices, Products and Priorities: Meeting Refugees' Energy Needs in Burkina Faso and Kenya

This paper examines the issue of energy and displacement, using insights from refugees in camps in Burkina Faso and Kenya.

• From: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
• Published: 1 January 2018

• Country: Burkina Faso, Kenya
• Document Type: Research Paper
• Theme: Governance and Conflict
• Authors: Corbyn, D, Vianello, M

Abstract

This paper examines the issue of energy and displacement, using insights from refugees in camps in Burkina Faso and Kenya. It seeks to promote a better understanding of their energy needs, priorities and preferences, and explores how increased access to energy might help to achieve lasting impact in the two camps surveyed. The paper is based on primary research from the Goudoubo camp in Burkina Faso and the Kakuma I camp in Kenya, but the analysis and conclusions are pertinent in the wider context of camps for forcibly displaced people.

This paper is an output of the Moving Energy Initiative (MEI), a collaboration between Energy 4 Impact, Chatham House, Practical Action, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

Citation

Corbyn, D. and Vianello, M. (January 2018) Prices, Products and Priorities: Meeting Refugees’ Energy Needs in Burkina Faso and Kenya. Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs

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Prices, Products and Priorities: Meeting Refugees’ Energy Needs in Burkina Faso and Kenya

Published 1 January 2018