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| Author: |
UN Millennium Project, 2006-04-14
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| Title: |
Energy Services for the Millennium Development Goals |
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UNDP, UN Millennium Project, the World Bank, and ESMAP, 116 pages
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| Type: |
Books
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| Country / Region: |
Global
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| Categories: |
Millennium Development Goals,
Energy Services
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| Date Posted: |
2006-04-24 |
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A joint publication of the UNDP, UN Millennium Project, the World Bank, and the joint UNDP-World Bank Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme (ESMAP). This report underscores the importance of energy services for the MDG agenda, stressing three types of services in particular: modern fuels for cooking and heating; electricity for public services; and motive power for productive uses in communities. The report offers practical recommendations for energy planning exercises.
The world has an unprecedented opportunity to improve the lives of billions of people by meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the international community’s time-bound and quantified targets for addressing extreme poverty in its many forms. At the request of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the UN Millennium Project has identified practical strategies to meet the MDGs, emphasizing the need for scaled-up investments in health, education, and infrastructure, alongside efforts to promote gender equality and environmental sustainability.
A common finding of the ten Task Forces of the UN Millennium Project has been the urgent need to improve access to energy services as essential inputs for meeting each MDG. Without increased investment in the energy sector, the MDGs will not be achieved in the poorest countries.
Under the leadership of Professor Vijay Modi of Columbia University, the Project has collaborated with ESMAP, UNDP, and the World Bank to prepare Energy Services for the Millennium Development Goals. The report underscores the strong links between energy services and achieving the MDG outcomes and puts forward a practical strategy for providing improved energy services to the world’s poor. As a major contribution to our understanding of how to achieve the MDGs, the authors propose quantitative and time-bound energy targets for low-income countries and derive goal-oriented strategies for meeting them.
It is intended that developing countries will find the report helpful as they prepare their first MDG-based development strategies, as well as being useful to anyone who is interested in how energy services contribute to the achievement of the Goals.
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