Humanitarian Energy Co-Design Toolbox
Created by Outsight International
Enabling humanitarian energy practitioners to better understand and embed co-design processes
About this Project
This jumble of sectors, definitions, terminology, and complex systems makes it challenging for humanitarian practitioners to first, engage with co-design practices, second, to ensure that this engagement is meaningful, and third, to benchmark their own practices against others to ensure a complete understanding of where practices can be improved – this is an issue.
Outsight International, supported by EnAccess Foundation, has developed the Humanitarian Energy Co-Design Toolbox to support humanitarian (energy) practitioners with these three core challenges. Ben Robinson from Outsight International walks us through the Toolkit in this video.
This toolbox collects, collates, and categorizes co-design theory and practice across the humanitarian project cycle (the Data Layer) – making it accessible to practitioners through a highly curated database with graphic format (the Presentation Layer) including case studies, workshop agenda, slides, and guidelines (the Training Pack). From decolonisation and localisation to data collection and analysis methods to many more, this toolbox represents the state of the art in Transformative Humanitarian Practice.
By facilitating collaboration and knowledge sharing, the toolbox promotes the collective intelligence of diverse stakeholders, ultimately leading to the emergence of context-specific energy systems and services.
If you are a humanitarian practitioner working on energy projects, an energy access auctioneer, or a policy maker at the national and international level working on humanitarian or energy access topics, you should definitely check out this project.
Watch this video to see as Ben Robinson, Energy Team Lead – Outsight International, walks us through the Toolkit.
How to Get Started
Do you need help with the Humanitarian Energy Co-Design Toolbox? Support is available through several channels.
For documentation, code repositories, and collaborative development related to the MicroPowerManager, explore the GitHub repository, access resources and contribute to the project.
For the fastest option to get support, tap into community expertise, share feedback, and join active discussions, by visiting the Discord support page.
If you require tailored, hands-on guidance, follow the technical assistance page for instructions on how to request expert support from our team.
FAQ
Visit the FAQ page to read the answer to these and other commonly asked questions about the Humanitarian Energy Co-design toolbox
Project Report
Meaningful Evolutions and Transformations – What’s Next for Co-Design?
Read more about the Humanitarian Energy Co-design Toolbox Project Report.