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A local blackout in Dar Es Salaam. Power outages in Tanzania's capital are often caused by old cables and transformers (Photo: jay grandin, Creative Commons via Flickr)

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Improving Tanzania’s power quality: can data help?

Rural welders use mini-grid electricity to generate income (Photo: Energy Change Lab)

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Power that changes lives: three lessons from a rural energy champion

Among IIED's work on ways to ensure that the benefits of energy systems reach the people who currently lack access to energy are energy labs in Tanzania, explains Ben Garside (Image: IIED)

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Understanding the SDGs: powering Goal Seven

Kaleta Dam under construction in Guinea (Photo: Jamie Skinner/IIED)

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Who should carry the financial risks in large private sector financed hydropower projects?

Esilalei, Tanzania: Teresia Olotai uses a refrigerator plugged into a solar powered micro-grid. Delivering energy access in rural Tanzania could help transform local economies (Photo: Morgana Wingard, USAID, Creative Commons via Flickr)

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How energy can generate growth in Tanzania's rural economy

Solar panels, such as these in Bhutan, are benefiting millions of energy-poor households (Photo: Richard Furlong, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

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Turning up the volume: five insights into aggregating finance for expanding off grid energy investment

Towards inclusive and responsible mining

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Small-scale miners dry ores in the process of gold mining in Geita, Tanzania (Photo: John Louis/Investing In Gold, Creative Commons)

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Dialogues for a sustainable and productive artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector

Employees work deep within a tunnel at the Nsangano Gold Mine, Mawemeru village in Geita District, Tanzania in March 2015 (Photo: Brian Sokol/Panos Pictures)

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Laying the foundations for a dialogue series on ASM

Working in shifts, an artisanal and small-scale miner in the Western region of Ghana relaxes at the top of a 15m mine shaft reinforced with a wooden 'cage' after several hours of digging (Photo: James McQuilken (@James_McQuilken/j.mcquilken@surrey.ac.uk))

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Ghana: on our way to participatory reform in the artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector

Publications

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Moving More Money: Can aggregation catalyse off-grid financing?

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Bridging the gap: how inclusive finance boosts access to off-grid energy

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Off-grid productivity: powering universal energy access

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Planning pro-poor energy services for maximum impact: the Energy Delivery Model Toolkit (Indonesia)

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Using the EDM toolkit to analyse impact: a small-scale horticulture project in Kenya

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Turning up the volume: financial aggregation for off-grid energy

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Kaleta Dam under construction in Guinea (Photo: Jamie Skinner/IIED)

Who should carry the financial risks in large private sector financed hydropower projects?

Blog, Dec 2018

Rural welders use mini-grid electricity to generate income (Photo: Energy Change Lab)

Power that changes lives: three lessons from a rural energy champion

Blog, Sep 2018

A local blackout in Dar Es Salaam. Power outages in Tanzania's capital are often caused by old cables and transformers (Photo: jay grandin, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Improving Tanzania’s power quality: can data help?

Blog, Jun 2018

The sun beats down on Dongo village, Tanzania. Children walk with cattle while women carry water buckets (Photo: Chih-Jung Lee)

Shining a light on energy consumers in rural Tanzania

Blog, Mar 2018

IIED's third #shareASM digital day will take place on 15 March across the globe (Image: IIED)

IIED to host 3rd online artisanal and small-scale mining day

News, Mar 2018

Dialogue participants visited ASM operations (Photo: Mkhululi Nkosilamandla Ncube)

Can ASM lead the Africa Mining Vision?

Blog, Dec 2017

Solar panels, such as these in Bhutan, are benefiting millions of energy-poor households (Photo: Richard Furlong, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Turning up the volume: five insights into aggregating finance for expanding off grid energy investment

Blog, Nov 2017

The new ASM newsletter, which is published quarterly (Image: IIED)

IIED publishes latest newsletter on artisanal and small-scale mining

News, Oct 2017

A woman miner holds a rough red garnet found at a mine in Tanzania. Tanzania's artisanal and small-scale miners are fuelled by determination and the hope to strike it big (Photo: Magali Rochat)

Four lessons on communicating ASM stories of change

Blog, Oct 2017

Stakeholders, including IIED's Fitsum Weldegiorgis (right), brainstorm to provide actionable solutions to challenges facing women in ASM during a workshop in Ghana (Photo: Friends of the Nation)

IIED at the 2017 Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development annual meeting

Event, Oct 2017

Esilalei, Tanzania: Teresia Olotai uses a refrigerator plugged into a solar powered micro-grid. Delivering energy access in rural Tanzania could help transform local economies (Photo: Morgana Wingard, USAID, Creative Commons via Flickr)

How energy can generate growth in Tanzania's rural economy

Blog, Sep 2017

The Bekily sapphire site is located in the commune of Ambinany, in Toliara, bordering the National Park of Zombitse-Vohibasia (Photo: Andry Rabemanantsoa/GIZ PAGE Madagascar)

In pictures: Dialogues and pilot projects for better ASM governance in Madagascar

Blog, Mar 2017