ABSTRACT
Learnings from past experiences in the delivery of energy products in refugee camps show that for sustained access to modern energy technologies, a systems-thinking approach to market-based development is needed. Market exchanges are complex and simple solutions are insufficient and there are emerging opportunities for energy market development that integrate the needs of both refugees and the wider host communities. Refugees are already paying for energy and accessing marketplaces in the wider host community. Integrating the spaces results in an opportunity to intervene at market-based leverage points rather than create aid dependent parallel structures. This chapter uses an example from an energy project in a humanitarian region undertaken by the Moving Energy Initiative (MEI) in Burkina Faso. It presents a systemic market intervention and shows how lessons around system analysis and markets can be useful to a wider range of humanitarian contexts and beyond.
