The LCEDN USES Programme Network

2012年夏天，RCUK、DFID和DECC启动了一项重大研究方案(能源与国际发展：了解发展中国家的可持续能源解决方案(USE)方案)，旨在提高我们对发展中国家可持续能源解决方案的理解(见RCUK/DFID/DECC，2012年)。该使用方案代表着一个对英国政府显然越来越重要的领域的重大研究投资(低碳能源是GB 29亿国际气候基金的一个主要资金领域，能源在DFID援助和研究资金中的比例越来越高)，但也是RCUK在2010年确定的一个主要感兴趣但能力有限的领域(RCUK，2010)。该计划为自己设定了一系列雄心勃勃的目标。这些措施包括：对城市和农村穷人的生活产生明显影响；改善低碳能源转型对减贫和发展更广泛方面的影响的证据基础(特别是获得机会的文化和政治障碍)；在英国学者和南方机构的同事之间，以及在这些学术界与更广泛的政策制定者、从业者、企业和用户社区之间发展有意义的合作。虽然该方案资助的每个项目在设计时都考虑到了这些方案目标，但整个方案在实现其本身设定的雄心勃勃的目标方面的成功，将极大地促进有关研究人员之间的密切合作和相互学习。因此，这项建议力求建立一个研究网络(LCEDN用户方案网络)，通过建立一个强大的论坛，使参与这些项目的研究人员能够相互支持和学习，从而开展一系列综合活动，以协助用户方案实现其目标。因此，拟议网络的主要意图之一将是整合12个资助用途项目的团队。活动的设计将是为了应对项目可能共同面临的关键挑战，无论是在进行研究本身方面，还是在确保影响和加强能力建设活动方面。该网络还将促进从各个项目和跨方案监测和评价中吸取比较经验教训。该网络还将提供重要机会，以扩大个别用途项目的影响和传播活动的影响范围，并将这些项目与更广泛的国家和国际社会联系起来，共同致力于这些问题。它将充分利用英国低碳能源促进发展网络(LCEDN)的现有资源、活动和网络，以确保尽可能广泛地吸收研究成果，并确保通过使用方案研究开展的工作产生最高水平的影响。LCEDN使用方案网络还将努力确保英国政府对使用方案的资助有助于实现更广泛的目标，例如提高英国(和海外)以能源和国际发展为重点的研究的知名度，并鼓励更多能源领域的英国研究人员思考他们的工作对国际发展的影响。最后，该网络还将在协调12个用途项目的年度报告和向方案资助者陈述情况方面发挥作用。

In the summer of 2012 RCUK, DFID and DECC launched a major research programme (Energy and International Development: Understanding Sustainable Energy Solutions (USES) in Developing Countries Programme) designed to improve our understanding of sustainable energy solutions within developing countries (see RCUK/DFID/DECC, 2012). This USES programme represents a significant research investment within an area that is clearly of increasing importance to the UK government (low carbon energy is a major area of funding of the £2.9 billion International Climate Fund and energy represents a growing component of DFID aid and research funding) but also one that had been identified by RCUK in 2010 as an area of major interest but limited capacity (RCUK, 2010). The programme has set itself a series of ambitious objectives. These include: having demonstrable impacts on the lives of the urban and rural poor; improving the evidence base concerning the impacts of low carbon energy transitions on wider aspects of poverty alleviation and development (particularly the cultural and political barriers to access); and developing meaningful collaborations between UK academics and colleagues in Southern institutions, and between those academic communities and the wider community of policymakers, practitioners, businesses and users. While each of the projects funded under the programme has been designed with these programme goals in mind, the success of the programme as a whole in achieving the ambitious goals which it set itself would be greatly facilitated by close cooperation and mutual learning amongst the researchers involved. As such, this proposal seeks to establish a research network (the LCEDN USES Programme Network) that will develop a series of integrative activities that can assist the USES programme in achieving its objectives by establishing a strong forum where the researchers involved in these projects can support and learn from each other. Thus, one of the key intentions of the proposed network will be to integrate the teams working on the 12 funded USES projects. Activities will be designed to address key challenges likely to be common to the projects, both in terms of the conducting of the research itself and in relation to ensuring impact and enhancing capacity building activities. The network will also facilitate the drawing of comparative lessons from across the projects and cross-programme monitoring and evaluation. The Network will also provide significant opportunities to enhance the reach of the impact and dissemination activities of the individual USES projects and to network the projects into the broader national and international communities working on these issues. It will make full use of the existing resources, activities and networks of the UK Low Carbon Energy for Development Network (LCEDN) in ensuring the widest possible research uptake and securing the highest levels of impact for the work conducted via the USES programme research. The LCEDN USES Programme Network will also work to ensure that the UK government's funding of the USES programme contributes towards somewhat wider goals such as raising the profile of UK energy and international development-focused research in the UK (and overseas) and encouraging more UK researchers in the energy sector to think through the international development implications of their work. Finally the network will also play a role in coordinating annual reporting and representation of the 12 USES projects to the programme funders.