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Influencing Policy

Welcome to the Gamos Influencing Policy WebPages. Here you will find information and resources concerning Gamos’ most recent work in influencing policy.

Barriers to Access to Electricity Amongst Low-income Urban Communities

The research seeks to identify barriers preventing people accessing electricity, and preventing them making formal connection in particular. The aim of the project was to gather data on the use of electricity amongst the urban poor in order to inform future policy decisions on power sector reform.
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Linking Field Level Findings to Policy and Decision-Making in Nepal

This DFID funded piece of research is premised on the twin assumptions that (a) there are land management strategies developed and verified through field level research, that are appropriate for uptake on a wide scale beyond the area where the research was conducted; and (b) that there are constraints to their uptake, at both farm and landscape levels, which can be eased through policy decisions in the political and administrative arenas.

Impact of Energy Reform on the Urban Poor

This DFID funded research project conducted in Albania, Moldova and Kyrgzstan sought to identify the implications of government reform of the energy sector on the urban poor with a view to influencing policy to mitigate against any ill effects.
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Transformational M-Payments

There was a key conference in Cairo, hosted by GSMA with involvement from DFID and CGAP. May 2008. http://mobilemoneysummit.com/

Gamos (Simon in particular) has been very interested in the potential of mobile phones for money transfer since about 2002. He has been actively championing and lobbying for it since then. His interest started when he realised that at that time migrant workers sent home $80 Billion, and the average charge from Banks and Western Union was 12%. The phone companies told him that it could be done, with international transfers coming in at around 4% but that regulations prevented them implementing such services. Now Migrants send home up to perhaps $400 Billion (2008), and Simon and others have also realised that MBanking or MPayments could be a possible gateway for the unbanked to access financial services.