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Significance Our team has developed a Convergence Framework where disciplinary boundaries fade and the focus is on creating solutions to society’s great challenges. This is done by interweaving of engineering and social science in a novel way that builds on the knowledge of underserved communities in solving problems they face. In this paper, we exemplify the development of this Framework to address the challenge of delivering renewable energy solutions for off-grid communities in the Amazon. This partnership between community members, local stakeholders, scientists, and engineers from both the Global North and South can be applied to address a wide array of sustainability challenges.