Enabling equitable energy access for Mozambique? Heterogeneous energy infrastructures in Maputo’s growing urban periphery This article concerns the relationship between uneven peri-urban growth and heterogeneous energy infrastructures in Metropolitan Maputo, Mozambique. Much research has documented how the diversity and overlap of different energy configurations define energy access in African cities. However, very little attention has…

Translating the sustainable development goals in national development planning: the case of Mozambique’s energy for all programme The international community has emphasised the importance of governments adapting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to national policy priorities. Whilst sustainability assessment frameworks and indicators are meant to facilitate adaptation, their assumption of high institutional capacity…

Rethinking energy transitions in Southern cities: Urban and infrastructural heterogeneity in Dar es Salaam Despite increasing attention to the complex geographies of energy supply and use in Southern cities, energy research is still largely focusing on energy transitions evolving either through homogeneous, networked electricity or heterogeneous constellations in poor neighborhoods. Central to this research are…

In January 2020, we conducted our Mid-term assessment and joint CoP workshop in Dar es Salaam. You can now access the report here.

January 2020 almost marked the mid-point of the UrbanHIT project. Time for us to look back at the past activities, milestones and outcomes. What did we achieve? What are the learning effects for the next two years to come? These and other questions were addressed together with the whole consortium as well as our practitioner…

After months of intensive field work, data analysis and drafting of results, our post-doctoral researchers Dr. Daniel Msangi (Ardhi University) and Dr. Eléusio Viegas Filipe (Eduardo Mondlane University) arrived in the beginning of November 2019 to spend a period for intensive writing at Utrecht University. During their three weeks long exchange, the project organized a…

The research consortium organized the first meeting of our Advisory Board, chaired by Prof. Monstadt and co-chaired by Dr. Otsuki. The meeting took place at Utrecht University. With the help of internationally renowned experts in the field of urban infrastructures in the global South, we were able to: reflect on results from the first 1.5…

Our PhD candidate, Mathias Koepke, will present his research on six diverse settlements in Dar es Salaam and their different urban electricity constellations at his first large international conference in London. He will participate in the session named “Mapping the new spatialities of electricity infrastructure in the energy transition“, taking place on August 29, 2019.

In July 2019, the whole research consortium organized two further meetings of the Communities of Practice (CoP) in Maputo and Dar es Salaam, marking the third overall in each city. Researchers presented their initial findings on the diversity of urban electricity constellations (Mathias Koepke) and in-depth observations of two low-income settlements (Dr. Msangi) in Dar…

During a one day meeting on July 9th 2018, the entire research consortium met for the first time to kick-off the project. The meeting served to detail the project activities, individual research agendas, refine milestones as part in the frame of the project impact pathway discuss deliverables of the project and dissemination strategies plan for…