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Quantitative benchmarks for cost-effective provision of rural energy access are difficult to obtain because deployment costs vary across technologies, contexts, and technical assistance approaches – but crucially also across sustainability assumptions. As an alternative, this discussion paper provides a qualitative costeffectiveness assessment of different energy access strategies. That is, we discuss the different cost factors, and we additionally account for differences in impact potentials across rural energy access options. We include on-grid and off-grid electrification and improved cooking technologies. The focus is on rural sub-Saharan Africa, where energy access rates are low. We diagnose largely disappointing impacts of high-power electrification technologies, turning stand-alone solar into the more cost-effective electrification strategy in that setting. We conclude by emphasizing the high impact-cost ratio for energy-efficient biomass cookstoves

• Ankel-Peters, J., G. Bensch, K. Moull, M. Rauschenbach and M. Sievert (2024), Cost-effectiveness of rural energy access strategies, DEval Discussion Paper 1/2024, German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval), Bonn.

This paper discusses whether energy access programmes in rural sub-Saharan Africa reach the poor. We examine on- and off-grid electrification as well as improved cooking. Pro-poor development requires that the programmes enable the poor to unlock their productive potential. We therefore focus on the productive use potentials triggered by energy access programmes, such as irrigation. Our review of the recent evaluation literature informed by our sector and evaluation experience on the topic also comprehensively cover other potential channels, including education and health. In doing so, we consider both direct economic benefitsto the poor and whether indirect effects accrue to the unconnected via spillovers from among the connected. We conclude by emphasizing that energy access is beneficial for the poor if connections are made affordable through subsidization, but indirect effects from productive use and income generation are largely absent. From a pro-poor perspective, energy efficient biomass cookstoves offer the largest potential.

• Ankel-Peters, J., G. Bensch, A. Köngeter, M. Rauschenbach and M. Sievert (2024), Are rural energy access programmes pro-poor interventions?, DEval Discussion Paper 2/2024, German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval), Bonn.

Global supply chains – especially in the textile sector – face many social and environmental challenges to sustainability. The public has become increasingly aware of these challenges in the wake of disasters such as the fire in the Ali Enterprises textile factory in Pakistan in 2012 and the collapse of the Rana Plaza textile factory in Bangladesh in 2013. The Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) has stated its intention to promote fair and sustainable global textile supply chains. For this reason, the German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval) examined the interaction between the instruments and measures deployed in German development cooperation (DC) to promote sustainable global supply chains in the textile sector. This policy brief presents key findings and recommendations of the evaluation.

• Heucher, A., A. zu Eulenburg, J. Ihl and M. Kiefer (2023), The Promotion of Sustainable Supply Chains Based on the Example of the Textile Sector: The Mix of Instruments in German Development Cooperation, DEval Policy Brief 10/2023, German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval), Bonn.

Globale Lieferketten sind – insbesondere im Textilsektor – von zahlreichen sozialen und ökologischen Nachhaltigkeitsherausforderungen gekennzeichnet. Das Bewusstsein hierfür ist in der Öffentlichkeit durch Unglücke wie den Brand in der Textilfabrik Ali Enterprises in Pakistan 2012 oder den Einsturz der Textilfabrik Rana Plaza in Bangladesch 2013 gestiegen. Das Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) hat sich das Ziel gesetzt, faire und nachhaltige globale Textillieferketten zu fördern. Daher hat das Deutsche Evaluierungsinstitut der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (DEval) das Zusammenspiel von Instrumenten und Maßnahmen der deutschen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (EZ) zur Förderung nachhaltiger globaler Lieferketten im Textilsektor untersucht. In diesem Policy Brief werden die Ergebnisse und Empfehlungen der Evaluierung vorgestellt.

• Heucher, A., A. zu Eulenburg, J. Ihl und M. Kiefer (2023), Die Förderung nachhaltiger Lieferketten am Beispiel des Textilsektors: Der Instrumenten-Mix der deutschen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit, DEval Policy Brief 10/2023, Deutsches Evaluierungsinstitut der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (DEval), Bonn.

German development cooperation is pursuing the objective of reducing negative social and environmental effects in global (textile) supply chains and thus, in the long term, contributing to designing them more sustainably. This evaluation examines, in particular, the interaction between various development cooperation instruments and measures to promote sustainable global supply chains in the textile sector.

• Executive Summary (PDF, 780 KB)
• Deutsche Zusammenfassung (PDF, 662 KB)
• To the BMZ response

• Heucher, A., J. Ihl, M. Kiefer, M. Kaplan, S. Schimko and K. Wolf (2023), The Promotion of Sustainable Supply Chains through German Development Cooperation Based on the Example of the Textile Sector, German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval), Bonn.

Die deutsche Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (EZ) verfolgt das Ziel, negative soziale und ökologische Effekte in globalen (Textil-)Lieferketten zu reduzieren und damit langfristig zu ihrer nachhaltigen Ausgestaltung beizutragen. In der vorliegenden Evaluierung wird insbesondere das Zusammenspiel verschiedener EZ-Instrumente und -Maßnahmen zur Förderung nachhaltiger globaler Lieferketten im Textilsektor untersucht.

• Deutsche Zusammenfassung (PDF, 662 KB)
• Onlineanhang (PDF, 5.44 MB)
• Zusammenfassung in Leichter Sprache (PDF, 1.83 MB)
• Stellungnahme des BMZ

• Heucher, A., J. Ihl, M. Kiefer, M. Kaplan, S. Schimko und K. Wolf (2023), Die Förderung nachhaltiger Lieferketten durch die deutsche Entwicklungszusammenarbeit am Beispiel des Textilsektors, Deutsches Evaluierungsinstitut der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (DEval), Bonn.