Stakeholder Groups represented (71 respondents)

The strength of Stakeholder group’s representation can roughly be divided into 3 categories.

• Best represented were NGOs (14 respondents), Business and Industry (13), and The Scientific and Technological Community (11).
• Local and Regional Authorities (7), Renewable Energy Manufacturers and Suppliers (6), Actors in Poverty Alleviation and Development (6), and Consumers (5) were all moderately represented.
• Groups with no significant representation were Women (1), Trade Unions (1), and Farmers (0).

Areas of work (73)

Policy Development was the most popular area of work that the respondents to the survey were involved in (59% of respondents) with Capacity Building a close second (52%). Community Projects (35%), Renewable Energy Financing (32%), and R & D (32%) formed the next tier of popularity. The Energy Supply (21%) sector and RE technology Manufacture (7%) were the least represented areas of work.

Region (73)

Just under half of our respondents came from Europe (49%). Asia Pacific (17%), Africa (15%) and North America were well represented but the regions of Latin America and the Caribbean (8%) and Eastern Europe, Caucasus, Central Asia (3%) did not have significant representation.

Beneficiaries of the work (71)

Of the five sets of beneficiaries that we defined for our respondents four received almost exactly the same number of responses; Communities (40), Energy consumers (39), Policy Makers (39), and Business (39). The fifth set Women’s Groups (17) was conspicuously underrepresented with less than half the representation of the other four.

Partners (71)

Our respondents worked with a fairly balanced range of partner types. Business (47) partnering was the most common form while Community Groups (34) were the least frequent partner. Sandwiched between the two Partnerships with Local Government (43), NGOs (42), and International Organisations/UN Agencies (41) were similarly represented.

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