Municipal Power Purchase Agreement guideline
This guideline aims to provide South African municipalities with a clear and comprehensive framework for understanding, negotiating, and managing PPAs. It outlines the essential components, processes, and best practices to ensure that municipalities can effectively engage in PPAs to meet their energy needs and sustainability goals. View resource
Unlocking Public-Private Partnerships: A Toolkit for Local Governments
A training course developed as part of the Benin Energy Plus Project. Based on the work developed for local and regional governments in Benin this course details how to use public-private partnerships and accessing carbon finance to develop renewable energy projects for energy access
Ways of thinking: encouraging a shift in mindset
This document showcases methods and approaches that support city officials in institutionalizing spaces for reflection. They include adopting new approaches to creating solutions such as systems thinking.
Alternative planning approaches: for cities in Sub-Sahara Africa
In Sub-Saharan Africa, cities, towns and villages are growing at unprecedented rates, leading to large parts of most cities being unplanned, in some cases up to 80%. African cities face unique challenges and require context specific planning to deliver services, support local economic development and improve quality of life.
Meeting climate commitments, transforming cities and nations
How subnational and national governments can work together to achieve Nationally Determined Contributions and honour the Paris Agreement
User guide | Gender-sensitive public lighting: How and why?
Author: Covenant of Mayors in Sub-Saharan Africa partner, l’Agence Française de Développement (AFD) Covenant of Mayors in Sub-Saharan Africa partner, AFD, has carried out a study to develop useful gender-sensitive tools and methodologies for municipalities and other stakeholders involved in identifying, preparing, implementing and monitoring urban public-lighting projects. Building on the findings of this study, […]
Introduction to finance mechanisms and developing bankable project proposals
This introductory document was compiled using various sources including the work done as part of the Urban Low Emission Development Strategies I (Urban LEDS) on financing the transition to a new infrastructure paradigm in fast-growing secondary cities in South Africa, The IPG Handbook on Environmental Funds, and SANBI’s Framework for Investing in Ecological Infrastructure in […]
Wetland Management Guidelines
Buiding capacity and supporting effective management of wetlands within South African Municipalities These guidelines are a component of a series of project outputs designed to support South African municipalities with improving wetland management going forward. For further information on the project, please refer to the LAB: Wetlands SA project website. Download