The FY12 annual report celebrates a new ASTAE business plan for fiscal 2012–15. The plan marks ASTAE’s first multidonor trust fund and welcomes the increased participation of colleagues from the South Asia Region. With its strong…
Twenty million people (about half of Central America´s population) cook primarily with biomass using open fires or rudimentary stoves. Approximately 86 percent of the biomass users are concentrated in Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua,…
This report identifies the circumstances when results-based financing (RBF) approaches might be an appropriate energy sector intervention in developing countries, especially to promote energy access and energy efficiency. It was…
Over 3 billion people continue to rely on solid household fuels—biomass and coal—in developing countries, with serious impacts to health and the environment. The latest World Health Organization (WHO) studies indicate that over 4 million…
