THE SHINE COLLAB PARTNER RESOURCES
The SHINE Collab connects you with research, tools and best practices to help you prioritize just, clean, distributed energy solutions initiatives focused on:
- Reaching the hardest-to-reach communities.
- Incorporating the full participation of communities in developing locally-owned, affordable clean energy assets that improve and sustain their livelihoods.
- Empowering by women, indigenous persons, and racial and cultural minorities in their respective contexts
- Respecting human rights and the environment while serving communities left behind by centralized, large-scale energy access initiatives.
WHAT WE’RE READING
Private Businesses Alone Can’t bring energy to the Last Mile, April 2024. The critical role of women and communities in moving to a just energy transition and why new business models and innovative financing are a must to achieve sustainable power shifts.
Engaging People for Just Transitions, IDS Jan 2023. Research delivering Key insights that might inform contemporary efforts to ensure that energy transitions are just transitions.
Why Off-Grid Energy Matters 2024, 60decibels, March 2024. In case you didn’t believe the substantial impacts that access to electricity through off grid solar solutions delivers, this report is for you. Includes data reinforcing the role of women and local entrepreneurs in generating positive impacts through off grid solar solutions.
Gender Just Transition: A Path to System Change, WEDO, November 2023. What do we mean by a gender just transition and how does this recognize energy as an essential element without perpetuating the same systems of oppression, exploitation, and extraction of both people and the planet.
RESEARCH + REPORTS
GOGLA | September 2023
Opinion: Renewable energy needs accountability to end green colonialism
Devex | March 2023
Selling Productive Use of Energy Products to Last Mile Consumers
Global Distributers Collective (GDC) | July 2022
Appliances for ALL: Assessing the Inclusivity of the Solar Lighting & Appliance Sector
Efficiency for Access | September 2022
How to Unlock Financing for Mini-Grids in Africa at Scale Through Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration
African Mini-grid Developers Association (AMDA), Renewable Energy Performance Platform (REPP) | March 2023
Benchmarking Africa’s Minigrids Report
African Minigrid Developers Association (AMDA) | 2022
Off-Grid Solar Market Trends Report 2022: State of the Sector
GOGLA | 2022
The Path to Universal Electricity Access: The Role of Technology, Market Forces and Policy
POWER for ALL | July 2023
The Power of Collaborative Philanthropy: Giving Together to the Address Climate Crisis
Climate Leadership Initiative | 2022
Funding Tends 2022: Climate Change Mitigation Philanthropy
ClimateWorks Foundation | 2022
What is the Impact of Investing in Power: Practical Thinking on Investing for Development
Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) CDC | January 2020
Strengthening Gender Equity in Locally Led Adaption Processes in Africa
World Resources Institute, Women’s Climate Centers International (WCCI) | June 2023
Working Paper: Powering a Gender-Just Energy Transition
ENERGIA, GGKP Expert Group on Gender | March 2023
ENERGIA | October 2022
Holistic Ecosystem Approach to Reliable Energy Services
Good Energies Foundation, SELCO | November 2022
Climate Resilience in India: Key Insights from Acumen’s Agriculture Accelerator
Acumen, Rabo Foundation | (not dated)
Global Landscape of Climate Finance: A Decade of Data
Climate Policy Initiative | October 2022
Protecting Communities and the Climate from Corruption
Waverly Street, Transparency International | (not dated)
Providing Emergency Relief for Clean Energy Entrepreneurs Working ‘Last Mile’ Access in Uganda
One Earth (Daughters for Earth) | (not dated)
Funding Social Justice in the Energy Transition
The African Climate Foundation | March 2023
Philanthropies Commit to Sustained Collective Action in Response to the Climate Emergency
Children’s Investment Fund Foundation | December 2020
Philanthropy’s Momentum Shifting Power to Local Communities
Hewlett Foundation | April 2023
How Communities of Color Lead on Climate Solutions-And Ways to Support Them
Hewlett Foundation | August 2022
Ford Foundation | November 2022
Co-Impact: Gender Fund Announcement | (not dated)
How Can the EU Deliver a Socially Just Green Deal?
Open Society Foundations | May 2022
Request for Proposals: Just Transition Mapping
Mapping Organizations and Efforts Working to deliver Just Transitions Across Sectors and Geographies
Laudes Foundation, Wallace Global Fund, Ford Foundation | May-June 2023
Coal in Net Zero Transitions: Strategies for Rapid, Secure and People-Centered Change
Bloomberg Philanthropies, International Energy Agency | November 2022
Grid Alternatives: Bringing Solar Power to Low-Income Neighborhoods
11th Hour Project, The Schmidt Foundation | (not dated)
Inclusive Engineering Increases Energy Access in the Amazon
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation | June 2023
Four Attitudes Toward Climate Change in India
MacArthur Foundation, Yale Program on Climate Change Communications | May 2023
What Gets Measured Gets Financed: Climate Finance Funding Flows and Opportunities
The Rockefeller Foundation | November 2022
Frontier Markets | (not dated)
Toward a Gender-Transformative Agenda for Climate and Environmental Action
Women’s Environmental Development Organization (WEDO) | March 2022
Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet | (not dated)