Event - Webinar - RBF4R Project Closure: Impacts, Challenges & Strategic Learnings

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Title

Webinar - RBF4R Project Closure: Impacts, Challenges & Strategic Learnings

Organizer

EnDev Rwanda, Practical Action

Type

Online Seminars

Focus

• Cooking
• Humanitarian Energy
• Other

Start

2026/02/19 10:30AM CAT

End

2026/02/19 12:00PM CAT

Venue

Online (MS TEAMS)

URL

link to the event

Description

EnDev Rwanda and Practical Action were working together from 2023 to 2025 to address the clean cooking transition in humanitarian settings. In Rwanda’s refugee camps, where charcoal use is banned, most households continue to depend on firewood and inefficient stoves. Bringing together the market development experience of GIZ and Energising Development with the humanitarian energy access expertise of Practical Action, the Results-based Financing for Refugees (RBF4R) project was designed to complement the Renewable Energy for Refugees II (RE4R II) project, also implemented by Practical Action and funded by Sweden, and to bring market-based energy access to the most vulnerable households in Rwanda`s refugee camps. The interventions aimed to support the adoption of higher-tier cookstoves using alternative fuels such as pellets and promoted productive use of energy among female refugee entrepreneurs.

The project successfully supported refugee women entrepreneurs through matching grants for productive use of energy, facilitating access to renewable energy solutions that help grow their businesses and strengthen local economic participation. Yet results on higher-tier cooking access in households supported by RBF remained below expectation, highlighting the challenges of market-based approaches in refugee camps. This webinar will review the approaches of RBF4R, highlighting good practices but also examining the lessons learned around market-based humanitarian energy access.

EnDev and Practical Action are aiming to share their knowledge in this webinar with public, private and humanitarian partners in Rwanda to integrate lessons learned on key barriers such as behavioural change and demand creation, as well as on supplier’s capacity needs into future programming opportunities and designs.