PASIDA Insights
African expertise, in the conversation.
An open publishing platform. Contributions are welcome from any African professional working on energy, water or climate — policy or technical, at any career stage — subject to light editorial review.
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Article · Energy
Mini-grids are not a technology problem. They are a regulatory one.
Across four West African markets the hardware works. What stalls is licensing, tariff approval and the rules for what happens when the main grid arrives.
Commentary · Water
The cheapest water reform on the continent is a shared spreadsheet
Basin cooperation tends to be discussed as diplomacy. In practice, most allocation disputes begin with two states holding incompatible numbers.
Article · Climate
Secondary cities are where African climate risk is actually accumulating
Capital-city adaptation plans absorb most attention and most funding. The exposure curve is steepest somewhere else.
Explainer · Innovation
Explainer: the water-energy nexus, without the jargon
Why a desalination decision is an energy decision, and why an energy plan is a water plan.
Commentary · Energy
Adoption is not the finish line for clean cooking
Programmes report stoves distributed. Households report stacking. The gap is where the impact goes.
Explainer · Energy
Explainer: why energy efficiency programmes underperform their models
The engineering estimate and the metered result diverge for reasons that are mostly institutional.