The LCEDN USES Programme Network

2012年夏天，英国皇家大学、英国国际发展部和欧洲经济和合作部启动了一项重大研究方案（能源与国际发展：了解发展中国家可持续能源解决方案），旨在提高我们对发展中国家可持续能源解决方案的认识（见英国皇家大学/英国国际发展部/欧洲经济和合作部，2012年）。该USES计划代表了一个对英国政府越来越重要的领域内的重大研究投资（低碳能源是29亿英镑国际气候基金的一个主要资助领域，能源是英国国际发展部援助和研究资金的一个日益增长的组成部分），但也是RCUK在2010年确定的一个主要兴趣领域，但能力有限（RCUK，2010年）。该方案为自己制定了一系列雄心勃勃的目标。其中包括：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更广泛的减贫和发展影响的证据基础（特别是获得服务的文化和政治障碍）;在英国学者和南方机构的同事之间，以及在这些学术团体和更广泛的决策者，从业者，企业和用户。虽然该计划资助的每一个项目都是根据这些计划目标设计的，但整个计划在实现其本身设定的宏伟目标方面的成功将大大有助于参与研究人员之间的密切合作和相互学习。因此，该提案旨在建立一个研究网络（LCEDN USES方案网络），该网络将开展一系列综合活动，通过建立一个强大的论坛，参与这些项目的研究人员可以相互支持和学习，从而帮助USES方案实现其目标。因此，拟议的网络的主要意图之一将是整合在12个资助的USES项目上工作的团队。将设计活动，以应对项目可能共有的关键挑战，既包括开展研究本身，也包括确保影响和加强能力建设活动。该网络还将促进从各个项目中吸取比较经验教训，并促进跨方案监测和评价。该网络还将提供重要的机会，以扩大各个用途项目的影响和传播活动的范围，并将这些项目与从事这些问题工作的更广泛的国家和国际社会联系起来。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，以确保尽可能广泛的研究吸收，并确保通过USES计划研究进行的工作产生最高水平的影响。LCEDN USES计划网络还将致力于确保英国政府对USES计划的资助有助于实现更广泛的目标，例如提高英国能源和国际发展研究在英国（和海外）的知名度，并鼓励更多的英国能源部门研究人员思考其工作的国际发展影响。最后，该网络还将在协调向方案供资者提交的12个利用社会资源项目的年度报告和陈述方面发挥作用。

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.