Policy documents and academic literature suggest that Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) finance could complement traditional ‘energy access’ (EA) funding in developing countries, including the Least Developed Countries (LDCs). Yet these propositions have not been empirically tested. This study helps fill this gap by examining constraints to CDM project passage through five stages of an idealized project development cycle (PDC) in Tanzania, and their implications for the ability of the CDM to contribute to financing energy access in LDCs.

With 800 million people going to bed hungry every night, countries combating hunger must build better food systems that raise agricultural productivity in rural areas, invest in improving nutritional outcomes for young children and pregnant women, and boost climate-smart agriculture that can withstand a warmer planet, says a World Bank Group rep

Medical practitioners in Lagos have cited breathing problems, skin irritations and malnutrition as major effects of the incessant oil spill in the Niger Delta.

Former Irrigation Minister Mohamed Abdel Motaleb, head of Egypt's delegation to World Water Forum held in South Korea, said that Egypt presented new, several and non-traditional visions on facing i

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said Wednesday that 2.

Environmental Management Inspectors, commonly known as the Green Scorpions, have been deployed by the Department of Environmental Affairs at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg in an eff

A new tracking system to gather information on illegal elephant poaching has been put in place for the Central African Sub-region.

The United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) has reported a decline in the number of confirmed Ebola cases in the three most affected Ebola hit countries of Liberia, Guinea and

Just over 20,000 malaria cases were detected in the hospitals of the central Huambo Province from January to March this year, compared to the 16,160 cases recorded in 2014.

Luanda — The prevalence of chronic malnutrition in Angolan children aged five and below has reached 29 per cent, informed last Monday, in Luanda, the nutritionist Futi Tati.

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