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awaress raising is crucial - we're preaching to the choir here, need to reach more stakeholders and inform them of the challenges/innovative options to overcome them.

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huge opportunity to develop local skillsets and address the TA/capacity building issue.

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microfinance loans for approved PUE tech/standards would get a rebate and fast track to get a loan if they can demonstrate high efficiency & renewable sources.

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advocacy for water & energy space - importance of the local context. operate through regional hubs, collaboration across and lessons learned to facilitate innovators to share challenges/work through them. creating country profiles for landscape analysis of what is going on in the enabling environment.

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intersection of access & efficiency activities; linkages aren't always made in the EU context and need to be joined. finance, policy, national interventions, regional economic communities, common markets all need to be interlinked.

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skills/human resource gaps.

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compliance and enforcement - is it an issue not being able to see quality assurance/verified products? are copycats/knock offs an issue?

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with COVID, everyone wants the vaccine in place - we don't have the luxury of worrying about climate-friendly systems and infrastructure. need to realize limitations of each country but look for short time gains around standards for better refrigerants, insulation for vehicles, etc.

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WE4F aims to  conduct advocacy of water-food-energy issues for an enabling environment on national, regional, and global levels. Currently, we are developing country profiles that give a landscape view of barriers to scale and pathways to overcome some of the challenges. In addition, we seek partners in the enabling environment space and policy advocacy (e.g FAO)

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getting performance data to countries that matter. information is only being used within and not getting out beyond local contexts.

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target product profile (TPP) - done every 5 years, give manufacturers time to get to market. grandfathering process means standards released ahead of time, and manufacturers catch up - from low hanging fruit to R&D and trial/pilot period, so they gradually move along the path

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Post Market Monitoring (PMM) extract cold chain performance data from the field and this data gives you visibility into performance; and it can be used to inform better standard settings, issues that manufacturers can improve with their cooling products and Countries can begin to procure cooling equipment that is best suited for their environment.

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support performance and quality safety team for standards for cold chain - use this regulatory framework to help industry make more efficient cooling tech. lower GWP refrigerant; consume less power which reduces clinic costs; working on the policy and regulatory side makes manufacturers innovate more rapidly and dictates the demand we see.

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approaching from policy development perspective. MEPS. haven't focused on off-grid appliances environment as much but now venturing into cold chain interventions - entry points for policy interventions, funder and government interest to develop integrated roadmap for cold chain infrastructure.

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driven by the practitioner - servicing underserved populations with products/services and come across a finance block. it's a key enabler in the appliances ecosystem.