Held in Accra, Ghana, on 2 June 2026, the dialogue convened stakeholders from Ghana’s solar PV industry, government, academia, and civil society to explore how the country can move beyond viewing solar development solely as an energy solution and use…
An internal workshop to draft an advocacy strategy. The session enabled the team to refine advocacy outcomes, map priority stakeholders and their influence, co-create policy-brief topics, and identify practical advocacy actions on policy coherence, renewable-energy localisation and decent work.
Sub-national policy dialogues in Mombasa, Nairobi, and Kisumu to share emerging research findings and gather stakeholder perspectives. The dialogues brought together county and national government representatives, industry actors, labour, civil society, communities, and researchers to generate region-specific priorities and recommendations.
Published a discussion paper examining whether Kenya’s solar and wind transition is generating deeper industrial, employment and social benefits, using a Global Production Networks framework. Read more.
Published a policy scan assessing how Kenya’s policy and regulatory frameworks support, or constrain, an inclusive, employment-generating and industrially transformative renewable energy transition. Read more.
Published a policy scan reviewing South Africa’s renewable energy, climate, electricity and industrial policy frameworks, with a focus on localisation, decent work and inclusive economic participation. Read more.
Published a policy scan assessing whether Ghana’s renewable energy policy framework supports localisation, SMME participation, decent work, gender inclusion and inclusive green industrialisation. Read more.
Published a continental overview establishing the structural and empirical context for analysing localisation, employment, energy access, renewable energy deployment and value chains across sub-Saharan Africa. Read more.
Published a conceptual framework applying a social reproduction lens to gender equity and sustainable livelihoods in renewable energy value chains, with relevance for South Africa, Kenya and Ghana. Read more.
Published the project’s conceptual framework, setting out how renewable energy localisation can support economic and social transformation, with attention to decent work, gender equity, sustainable livelihoods and domestic productive capacity. Read more.