Business-Continuity-Informed Program Analytics for Scalable Energy-Access and Development Initiatives: A Continuity-Priority Framework for Electricity Access, Clean Cooking, And Analytics-Led Programme Governance

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@article{1724569,
      author = {Tadiwanashe Lennon Kasuwa, Isheanesu Chiworeso, James Sydney, Mabasa Masunungure, Munashe Naphtali Mupa},
      title = {Business-Continuity-Informed Program Analytics for Scalable Energy-Access and Development Initiatives: A Continuity-Priority Framework for Electricity Access, Clean Cooking, And Analytics-Led Programme Governance},
      journal = {Iconic Research And Engineering Journals},
      year = {2026},
      volume = {10},
      number = {5},
      pages = {857-870},
      issn = {2456-8880},
      url = {https://www.irejournals.com/formatedpaper/1724569.pdf},
      abstract = {This paper develops a business-continuity-informed analytics framework for scalable energy-access and development initiatives, with particular attention to electricity access and clean cooking transitions in Sub-Saharan Africa and other high-deficit settings. Although energy-access literature has expanded rapidly, much of the implementation debate still privileges deployment volumes over continuity of service, beneficiary retention, operational resilience and data-governed scale-up. To address that gap, the study combines secondary-data synthesis, continuity-risk scoring and programme-analytics design. Publicly accessible datasets and dashboards were screened, including Kaggle mirrors during the scoping phase, but the analytical base retained the harmonised indicators published by the World Bank-led Tracking SDG 7 platform and the International Energy Agency because those sources offered clearer metadata, comparable regional definitions and up-to-date 2023 and 2030 series. The empirical synthesis shows that the global electricity gap stood at 666 million people in 2023 and is still projected at 645 million in 2030 under current trajectories. In Sub-Saharan Africa, the electricity gap fell only marginally from 565 million in 2023 to a projected 545 million in 2030. Clean cooking displays an even more persistent implementation challenge: more than 2 billion people lacked access in 2023, with around 960 million of them in Sub-Saharan Africa, and the region is projected to remain near 940 million in 2030. Heat maps and continuity-priority scoring indicate that clean-cooking programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa face the highest combined pressure from burden persistence, weak reduction trajectories, affordability stress, supply-chain fragility and frontline-delivery constraints. The paper concludes that scalable energy-access programmes require a shift from connection-counting to continuity-centred programme management built on interoperable data systems, adaptive KPI dashboards, reliability engineering, workforce support and stage-gate scaling discipline.},
      keywords = {energy access; clean cooking; programme analytics; business continuity; Sub-Saharan Africa; decentralised renewable energy; operational resilience},
      month = {November},
  }