Measuring progress in providing humanitarian energy

Short explainer outlining the energy issues facing those forced to flee their homes due to conflict, and how a lack of acccess impacts them.

Explainer Video Published 16 May 2022 2 minute watch

Measuring progress in providing humanitarian energy

— Short explainer outlining the energy issues facing those forced to flee their homes due to conflict, and how a lack of acccess impacts them.

More than 750 million people still lack access to electricity and more than 2.5 billion are without clean cooking solutions. But within those numbers, when analysing the progress of delivering energy access to displaced people, instead of seeing improvements, the world is moving further away.

A key problem is the progress in energy provision has not been able to keep pace with increased levels of displaced people around the world over the past few years.

Delivering heat, light, and power is so essential to refugees all over the world, and yet ongoing challenges around coordination, political will, long-term policy coherence, and access to finance continue to hamper greater deployment of known solutions.