Projec

The Global Collaboratory, hosted by the Energy and Environment concentration at SIPA, is a curricular enhancement designed to expand participating students’ professional networks and experience in the global energy and environment (E&E) field. The Global Collaboratory is an innovative hybrid between a field-based professional development workshop and a grant program; students identify real challenges in the energy and environment sectors, develop and pitch pragmatic solutions, and implement them in close collaboration with local partners. The Global Collaboratory’s A Joule in the Life of a Refugee is made up of a core team of students, supported by faculty advisor and E&E’s Concentration Director, Travis Bradford. STATEMENT OF NEED The Syrian conflict continues to drive large influxes of displaced persons into refugee camps, where energy access is typically unreliable, expensive, organized on an ad-hoc basis, and environmentally harmful. Providing adequate energy access is difficult in the humanitarian world, where lack of political will from host governments, a shortage of energy specialists in the field, and limited private sector investment are a few of the many factors that prevent innovation and change from reaching refugees. Recently, refugee communities have been identified as untapped opportunities for energy innovation in the public and private sphere, but successful initiatives will depend on a thorough “on the ground” understanding of refugees’ energy needs and the market constraints and risks in refugee camps. PROJECT OBJECTIVE This interdisciplinary project seeks to analyze the energy needs of households in Layan, a 60-tent refugee camp in Lebanon. It will investigate the constraints on the energy system imposed by physical, market, economic and political factors, in order to build a model of how the average refugee family uses energy every day: where the energy comes from, how it is used, and what energy needs go unmet. These findings, when contextualized and compared to other camps, can be used by various public and private stakeholders to identify opportunities for solutions ranging from private sector investment to expanding local innovations. IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY The implementation strategy will include literature reviews, expert interviews, and an on-site visit to the Layan refugee camp in Lebanon in order to conduct a comprehensive analysis of energy needs through qualitative and quantitative methods. Qualitatively, the team will observe energy consumption habits by following up to three households throughout their daily activities. Quantitatively, the team will work closely with camp organizers and technical partners to collect data through research, field observations and randomized household surveys. PROJECT OUTCOME The development of a robust model of energy consumption habits in the Layan refugee community will be made publicly available to NGOS, private corporations and governments seeking to strengthen the impact and efficiency of energy projects in refugee camps. These entities will benefit from being able to formulate more coherent energy strategies that are rooted in genuine understanding of the realities on the ground, as opposed to theoretical ideas. By documenting access using data and multimedia tools, we aim to raise awareness of a microcosm of the world’s vast inequalities, allowing energy access to become a more prevalent topic in discussing the refugee hardship. IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS

• The Layan Refugee Camp Network: Abdulkareem Al Shati (founder) • Engineers Without Borders Lebanon: Nader Hajj Shehadeh (founder, OTB Consulting energy consultant) • Chatham House – The Moving Energy Initiative: Owen Grafham (programme coordinator) • Lebanese Association for History: Nayla Khodr Hamadeh (Secretary General and Project Manager) • IMAC SIPA: Anya Schiffrin (Director and content editor)

The Global Collaboratory: A Joule in the Life of a Refugee

PROJECT BUDGET

IncrementalCosts(USD) TravelingtoLebanon

Person 1 2 3 4 CommentsTravel 1,350 1,200 1,200 1,200 Incrementalcostforeachadditionalpersontraveling

FlightstoandfromNY 1,200 1,200 1,200 1,200 Priceasof10/13/2015-FlightssubjecttoincreasefortheperiodconsideredMarch12th,March19th2015.

TransportationAirport 150 0 0 0 Assuming4peoplepertaxi. Perday 180 10 10 10

Carwithlocaldriver 100 0 0 0 Transportationsharingforadditionalteammembers-Assumes4peopleinonecar

Lodging 70 0 0 0 Midprice-Potentialpossibilitytobeaccommodatedbylocals.Assuming4peopleperroom.

Food 10 10 10 10 Nbofdays 10 10 10 10 Totalcost 3,150 4,450 5,750 7,050 Totalcostsbasedonnumberofpeopletraveling 1LBP 0.000662736

THE TEAM

Jennifer Ching is a 2016 candidate for a Master of International Affairs, specializing in Energy and the Environment. Prior to SIPA, she worked at the Green Climate Fund and spent time in rural India researching financial inclusion methods for women at an NGO for sustainable development. Jennifer aims to develop her career in renewable energy policy and providing off-grid clean energy access.

Fatine Jabre is a 2017 candidate for a Master of Public Affairs, specializing in Energy and International Organizations. She is the Career and Alumni Chair of SIPA Student Association. Prior to SIPA, she led changes in the advisory field mainly in the finance industry, with a strong international and managerial exposure – overall more than sixteen 4 to 6-month projects in about twenty countries. Fatine holds a Master in Finance, from Edhec Business School (France) and studied in WHU (Germany).

Mona Sultan is a 2017 candidate for a Master of International Affairs specializing in Energy and Environment. Prior to SIPA, she worked with the Queen Rania Teacher Academy to enhance primary education in refugee camps. She is interested in addressing human rights through economic and environmental means. She wants to work on providing energy for vulnerable and marginalized communities, as lack of energy is often the cause of many health and social ills and impedes development.

Marie von Hafften is a 2017 candidate for a Master of International Affairs, specializing in Media and Communications. She is the communications chair of SIPA’s Women in Peace and Security. Prior to SIPA, she worked in community radio and wrote about market-driven solutions to poverty at Mercy Corps. Her writing has been published in The Christian Science Monitor, GlobalPost, and NextBillion.

THE ADVISORS Travis Bradford is the Director of the E&E Concentration at SIPA. He is a full-time Associate Professor of Practice at Columbia University, teaching energy and natural resource markets and innovation at SIPA, CBS, and the Earth Institute. He is the founder and president of the Prometheus Institute for Sustainable Development. Through the Institute, he helped launch many private and NGO organizations in the sector, including Greentech Media and the Carbon War Room.

Sophie Dejonckheere is the Manager of the E&E Concentration at SIPA. Her background is in climate finance, carbon accounting, and international development, with particular focus on project design for climate change and clean energy projects in emerging economies. Sophie holds an MSc in sustainable business management from Columbia University.