Niger : Beyond Connections - Energy Access Diagnostic Report Based on the Multi-Tier Framework
Niger is a vast, landlocked, and mostly arid Sub-Saharan country, located in the heart of the Sahel region, with a rapidly growing population, estimated at 22.4 million (World Bank 2018a), of which the majority lives in rural areas. Despite conside...
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| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/929061603687020211/Niger-Beyond-Connections-Energy-Access-Diagnostic-Report-Based-on-the-Multi-Tier-Framework http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34712 |
| Summary: | Niger is a vast, landlocked, and mostly
arid Sub-Saharan country, located in the heart of the Sahel
region, with a rapidly growing population, estimated at 22.4
million (World Bank 2018a), of which the majority lives in
rural areas. Despite considerable progress in the area of
poverty reduction, extreme poverty remains very high, at an
estimated 41.5 percent in 2019, affecting more than 9
million people in a country prone to climate risk and
insecurity. The World Bank, with support from the Energy
Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP), has launched
the Global Survey on Energy Access, using the Multi-Tier
Framework (MTF) approach. The survey’s objective is to
provide more nuanced data on energy access, including access
to electricity and cooking solutions. The MTF approach goes
beyond the traditional binary measurement of energy access,
for example, ‘having or not having’ a connection to
electricity, ‘using or not using’ clean fuels in cooking, to
capture the multidimensional nature of energy access and the
vast range of technologies and sources that can provide
energy access, while accounting for the wide differences in
user experience. |
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