Water management is foundational for development and climate adaptation. Investments in water not only improve health and wealth of nations but can also buffer the impacts of climate change. Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is the most vulnerable region to climate change impacts. This policy note...

All countries in Sub-Saharan Africa have submitted Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) as part of their respective commitments to climate action, and they will start to share updated versions of their NDCs in 2025. While various analyses have documented and analysed the significant...

This study investigates the factors leading to exclusion and their detrimental impacts in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It employs two-levels of analysis: a macro-level estimation of the influence of exclusion and marginalization on violent conflict, and a micro-level investigation identifying the...

Efforts to achieve gender equality will not only help sub-Saharan Africa revive its inclusive growth engine but also will ensure progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals and help address the main disruptive challenges of this century. This book explores the progress made in gender...

This study investigates the link between household welfare and solar electricity demand in sub-Saharan Africa for the period between 2010 and 2019. Welfare was proxied by HDI, inequality in income, infant mortality, education, mobile phone subscriptions, internet users and unemployment rate. The...

Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries continue to suffer from energy poverty, with 35 % and 19 % of the average population, having access to electricity and clean fuels for cooking technologies, respectively. This study examines whether access to electricity and clean fuels for cooking and...

Urban infrastructure critically influences how urban people carry their lives and mediates how services central to human well-being are accessed. Therefore, the main of this study is twofold: One, the study interrogates how the quality of urban infrastructural service accessibility influences...

The present study assesses the relevance of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in the effect of financial access on gender economic inclusion in 44 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) for the period 2004 to 2018. The adopted empirical strategy is interactive quantile regressions that are...