PISCES (Policy Innovation Systems for the Poor) is a 5 year research consortium, with the objective to understand the links and trade-offs between water, food, energy and environmental security, with a focus on the role of bioenergy in increasing energy access and improving livelihoods for the poor in Africa and Asia.  The results of the research are aimed at pro

Eco compiled a report on public sector energy efficiency in more than 30 countries, identifying best practices and preparing recommendations for helping local, regional, and national governments to save energy and reduce public expenditures.

The report, which covers several regions, found that while there had been many significant improvements in public sector energy efficiency programs, there was still significant potential to save energy in nearly every area where governments were spending money for basic operations.

Eco Ltd are editors and publishers of the journal ‘Boiling Point’, a household energy magazine that provides free and accessible information to practitioners, researchers and users, reaching over 2000 addresses and an estimated readership of 5 times this number worldwide.

Eco Ltd conceived the idea of a network where pro-development persons and organisations talk and learn from each other in June 2000.

Eco Ltd provides knowledge management expertise for the Renewable energy partnership for nd enterprise development. The project aims to build institutional capacity and source technical assistance in sustainable energy. As the knowledge managing partner, Eco has created and maintained the website for the programme.

 Eco Ltd worked with partners including ENERGIA and ITDG-EA to develop the "Turning Information into Empowerment" (TIE-ENERGIA) project. The project is designed to help distil information that has been developed and that continues to be developed in the field of energy and gender, into knowledge that can be used to catalyse change. It concerns several African countries (Botswana, Kenya, South Africa, Mali) and it aims at strengthening the African Gender and Energy Network by increasing awareness and skills in gender and energy issues.

In a consortium lead by IISD, Eco is assisting GVEP to develop its communications and knowledge strategies and their effectiveness and accessibility in the African context. This includes analysis of networks such as EUEI, PCIA, REEEP, GNSED, LP Gas Challenge, ENERGIA, HEDON, and regional networks such as ARECOP, and AFREPREN.

Eco Ltd co-ordinates the HEDON Household Energy Network, an international forum dedicated to  improving social, economic, and environmental conditions in the South, through the promotion of local, national, regional and international initiatives in the household energy sector.

Eco is the lead consultant for the development of this lesson's learnt report on "Opportunities for Biomass Energy Programmes - Experiences and Lessons Learnt", which is part of a Lessons for the Future, Monitoring and Evaluation Report Series. Eco is also the author of the Southern and Eastern Africa, and the European region chapters of the report as well as the introductory and the concluding chapters.