ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book focuses on the interplay between a given technology, its implementers and users and the governance systems that influence its success. It outlines how broader policy changes in the humanitarian sector make space for improved energy provision. The book provides more detail on why plans to deliver energy projects to refugees and displaced people can learn much from the experience of rural or peri-urban energy access projects, and yet must be adapted in view of specific legal, rights and socio political constraints of specific settings. It examines the broader concept of community energy resilience, making the case for greater attention to how this concept is defined and used. The book also provides an overview of the variety of energy needs which are facing forcibly displaced people around the world.
