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Transversal Component

Objectives: 

  1. Through the transversal components, the program will be coordinated, steering thematic support provided to the RCoEs with the aim of enhancing cross-thematic and cross-regional synergies, as well as fostering collaboration with major pan-African projects and initiatives.
  2. The Africa Knowledge Platform enables data and information sharing across the RCoEs and other stakeholders. The platform also develops and hosts decision-support tools to help policy makers with spatial prioritisation and land use planning, contributing to the strengthening of the science-policy interface. AKP stands at the core of the program serving as knowledge and communication hub while promoting stakeholders' active participation.
  3. The Innovation Ecosystem work package aims at developing and implementing a methodology for a systemic place-based approach to mobilise STI for green transition. The methodology targets the strengthening of RCoEs capacities to identify and assess the interlinkages between sustainability challenges, with the objective to help in anticipating and mitigating potential negative effects of investment decisions.
  4. Formulate and execute responses to environmental degradation and DRR.


Duration: Full project duration
Budget: €3.5 million  
Lead Organisation:  DG-JRC

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Refugee settlements total energy demand
The dataset depicts the total energy demand per settlement (kWh/day) at year 5 under scenario with household consumption raised to 1000 Wh/day (at year 0). This dataset is part of the e Refugee Settle...
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Distance to electric grid
Distance from existing or planned electric grid lines (LV; MV; HV). Unit: km
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PV electricity costs
Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) for PV systems in Africa and the Middle East. The calculations are based on estimates of the PV energy productivity from satellite data combined with models for the per...
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Clean Energy Access Prioritiser
The Clean Energy Access Prioritiser (CEAP) is an open-source decision-support tool designed to identify priority areas for clean energy interventions and investments. ...
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Terrestrial Fibre Status
Terrestrial Fibre Status is derived from the African Terrestrial Fibre, a map of African terrestrial fiber optic infrastructure initiatives supported by the Network Startup Resource Center. It is an ...
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Affordability of PV electricity
Electricity expenditure per day, in US$. Data are from ongoing JRC research. Higher levels of electricity expenditure may indicate that the country has a greater proportion of people with electricity ...
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Estimated number of jobs created (divided by labour force)
Estimated number of jobs created directly related to the deployment of PV mini-grids. The indicator was calculated using data on the total MWh of electricity output anticipated if the total number of ...
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International Wealth Index
The International Wealth Index is an asset-based wealth index that runs from 0 (no assets) to 100 (all assets) and is comparable across place and time. The lower the level of the Index, the greater th...
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Area equipped for irrigation, m2 x GWh/m2
Area equipped for irrigation with groundwater, expressed in m2 multiplied by GWh/m2. Lower values of the indicator indicated that electricity could improve the number of areas equipped for irrigation,...
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Time spent on firewood collection, hours per day
Average time spent by households on fuel collection daily. The higher the number of daily hours that households spend in collecting fuel, the higher the improvements in the quality of life of communit...
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Women with regular access to the internet, percentage
Percentage of women with regular access to the internet. The indicator reflects again the importance of electricity for the empowerment of women, allowing them to communicate and share information. Th...
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Employed women, percentage of total
Percentage of women who worked in the 12 months preceding the survey and are working currently. A lower score reflects weaker female emancipation within the labour market, and thus a higher potential ...
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Maternal mortality ratio (per 100,000 live births)
Number of maternal deaths during a given time period per 100 000 live births during the same time period. The lower the number of healthcare facilities with access to electricity the greater the poten...
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Proportion of women who experienced physical/sexual violence
Percentage of women who experienced physical or sexual violence. This indicator focuses on the importance of bringing electricity to public infrastructures, in particular streets. Improving street lig...
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Pupil-teacher ratio for primary education
Average number of pupils per qualified teacher at primary level education in a given academic year. Pupil-teacher ratio is calculated by dividing the number of students at the specified level of educa...
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