Effectiveness of aid projects in climate technology familiarization in recipient countries
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21792012 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nabil Haque (0000-0002-7394-6214, Stockholm Environment Institute, corresponding author), Sungida Rashid (0000-0002-7487-243X, Assumption University) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 467-479 |
| Publication date | 2023-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Climate and Development (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1756-5529 • E-ISSN: 1756-5537 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17565529.2022.2100310 |
| OpenAlex | W4286457207 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 36 |
Due to inequalities of innovation capacity among nations, climate technologies’ minimizing greenhouse gas emissions require deliberate interventions for adoption and diffusion in developing countries. Aid projects of international development organizations have long served the function of system builders for climate technologies through demonstration projects or barrier removal activities. Emerging transition literature has come up with theories of how project-level niche experiments gradually affect landscape settings through bottom-up evolution. The activities of the aid projects on climate technologies match the posited roles of niche experiments nurturing with the co-evolution of technology, user practices and regulatory structures. This paper provides insight into how climate technologies, previously supported by aid projects, played a role in familiarizing these technologies in recipient countries. Familiarization in this paper is defined as the non-prioritization of climate technology in a country’s Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) document. It was found that increasing project duration lowers the chance of technology’s inclusion in TNA, while higher project cost increased the odds of inclusion. Given the time-consuming nature of capacity building over multiple fronts, the effectiveness of future projects depends on donors’ ability to commit aid over multiyear periods to sustain scale-up
Business · Climate change · Commit · Economics · Emerging technologies · Environmental resource management · Geography · Greenhouse gas · Odds · Prioritization · Process management · Climate Change Policy and Economics · Computer Science · Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance · Ecology
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |