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| Expanding Access to Modern Energy Services - Replicating, Scaling Up and Mainstreaming at the local level |
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| Author: |
UNDP, Columbia University and GEF Small Grants Programme, 2006-05-17
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| Title: |
Expanding Access to Modern Energy Services - Replicating, Scaling Up and Mainstreaming at the local level |
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UNDP and GEF Small Grants Programme, 48 pages
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Case Studies
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| Country / Region: |
Global
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| Categories: |
Millennium Development Goals,
Technologies,
Energy Services
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| Themes/Issues: |
Access,
Development
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| Date Posted: |
2006-05-17 |
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This report is a joint publication by the UNDP and Columbia University about making progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals by expanding access to modern energy services. It demonstrates that micro-level energy initiatives implemented through community-based approaches can successfully be scaled up, replicated and/or mainstreamed to create a sustainable solution to providing energy services. Coupled with a dynamic partnership and collaborative effort between the national and local governments, civil society, the private sector and the community, scaling up can result in significant positive development impacts at the macro-level by influencing national policies and development priorities.
The report starts from the basic premise that the need to scale up arises from the limited impact and sustainability inherent in small-scale or, ‘one-off’, energy projects. It is acknowledged that there are several community-level energy initiatives in many countries that are successfully contributing to provide energy services at local levels. If these projects are replicated, mainstreamed and scaled up at the national level,the impacts could have a far reaching positive contribution towards achieving the MDGs. The report features three case studies of SGP projects in Nepal, Dominican Republic and Kenya.
The publication is a product of a joint UNDP and Columbia University assessment workshop which drew upon UNDP initiatives and experiences to help identify specific institutional factors required for scaling up, and to highlight challenges to maximising micro-energy initiatives’ potential for making large-scale impact.
The report was published in May 2006 by the UNDP Energy team and the SGP to coincide with the 14th session of the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD).
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