Applying insights from research on energy projects in low-income households in South Africa, this article, Scaling up carbon finance through CDM Programmes of Activities: challenges for low-income household energy projects in South Africa, suggests that the successful use of PoA in developing countries is contingent on establishing an appropriate institutional framework, building local capacity, increasing institutional learning around project development, and harmonising evolving carbon finance mechanism.
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This paper, Community-Based Adaptation Costing: An integrated framework for the participatory costing of community-based adaptations to climate change in agriculture, seeks to outline the theoretical and methodological foundations of the PSROI framework, provide case-study results from each pilot study, and assess the strengths and weaknesses of the framework according to its robustness, effectiveness and scalability.
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This project supports climate and development-related research by 14 MSc students from across the globe.
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