Experiences from a three-month internship at ACTS

By Rasmus Magni

My internship and stay at ACTS is coming to an end, and will therefore l try to recap look back on my time and recap my experience. I am studying Sustainable Energy Planning and Management at Aalborg University in Denmark, and an integral part of the final year is an internship in a relevant organisation or company. Since beginning my studies more than four years ago I have had a strong desire to study or work abroad for a period, to experience the life, culture, and challenges this entails.  Kenya as a country is experiencing tremendous growth and many interesting initiatives are taking place, especially in the energy and renewable energy sector, my specific field of interest.

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LCT project dissemination workshop – clean cooking technologies

By Mourine Chepkemoi

The Next Generation of Low-cost Energy-efficient Products for the Bottom of the Pyramid (known as the LCT project) comes to an end in July 2018. To mark this occasion, the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) organized a dissemination workshop on 17th July 2018 at ICIPE Duduville Campus, Nairobi.

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Developing Green Climate Fund proposals: A two week Training on Climate Relevant Innovation-systems Builders (CRIBS) kicks off

By  Victoria Chengo & Fiona Imbali

A two week long research capacity building training on the preparation of proposals for the Green Climate Fund (GCF) kicked off at the Elementaita Country Lodge in Naivasha, Kenya. The event organised by the Africa Sustainability Hub (ASH) at the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) in collaboration with the University of Sussex in the UK brings together research and policy makers from Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania for two weeks.

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ACTS Ranked among the top think tanks on climate change in the world in 2016

The African Centre for Technology Studies- ACTS has been ranked among the top 3 climate change think tanks globally in the 2016 think tank ranking.

The ranking also shows that ACTS is the top think tank on climate change in Africa.

The 2016 ranking assessed 244 think tanks, specialized in the research fields of climate change and climate policy.

The ranking is based on the authoritative and worldwide known assessment of the most cutting-edge institutions working in the field of climate change economics and policy, by the International Centre for Climate Governance (ICCG) under the “ICCG Climate Think Tank Ranking Initiative.

The ranking is based an analytical data structured around organizational activities, publications and dissemination.

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Why I do what I am doing

By Dr Sandeep Napa, Project Manager, Institute for Transformative Technologies (ITT) - Low Cost Technologies Project

My parents brought us up in a home of generosity. While I had always been interested in social change, I didn’t do much until my final year of medical school. After surviving a near fatal car accident with a friend, my outlook on life changed. I realized that the support and choices that we had, were not available to most patients at our hospital. Moved by the inequality in health and the needless loss of life, I decided to begin volunteering at the blood bank of our hospital and conduct health camps with the Red Cross.

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