*5.5. Limitations*

The aim of the CoDEC and AfriCLP projects discussed in this paper was to establish long-term cross-sector collaborations that would lead to sustainable energy transitions in urban Africa. As a result, the researchers in these projects did not provide concrete technical solutions that can be implemented in the case study. The researchers argue in this paper and in previous publications that long-term cross-sector collaborations and policy changes are required to enable and sustain context-specific, technical solutions [17,18]. The convenience sampling approach of this paper limits its findings to the context of the case study. Nevertheless, we have used examples from literature to triangulate the main arguments of this paper and thus increase the theoretical generalizability of its recommendations.
