Lessons Learned from Innovative Financing: Ghana Solar Homes Systems

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Richard Hosier

Richard Hosier is a Senior Energy Specialist for the World Bank currently working in the Africa Energy Practice. He has worked for the Bank since 2004 when he joined as Team Leader of the Climate and Chemicals Team with the Global Environment Facility Secretariat. Prior to joining the World Bank, he spent over ten years as the Principal Technical Adviser on Climate Change for the United Nations Development Program’s GEF Unit, based in New York. From 1985 until 1993, he served as an Assistant Professor of Energy Management and Policy and International Development and Appropriate Technology at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. From 1980 until 1992, he also worked for the Stockholm Environment Institute and the Beijer Institute of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on research and planning projects, which focused on energy for development in Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. He has worked in over 50 developing countries and published more than 30 refereed journal articles; 50 papers; and four book-length research monographs all focusing on energy for development, natural resource management and climate change.

Daniel Coila

Daniel Coila is an Operations Analyst in the Global Partnership on Output-Based Aid (GPOBA). He is part of the GPOBA Portfolio and M&E team, where he has been transaction advisor to GPOBA operations in Sub Saharan Africa, East Asia, and Latin America in the water and energy sectors, including Ghana SHS, Cameroon Urban Water, Mozambique Water, Uganda Rural Water, Surabaya Water, and Bolivia SHS. Daniel has been a member of GPOBA since its early inception stages, and has contributed to the establishment of various trust funds allocated for Subsidy Funding Projects. He holds a BS in Information Systems and a Master’s in Public Policy and Administration from George Mason University.