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| Mainstreaming Access to Energy Services: Experiences from Three African Regional Economic Communities |
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UNDP Rural Energy for Poverty Reduction Programme, 2007-05-01
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| Title: |
Mainstreaming Access to Energy Services: Experiences from Three African Regional Economic Communities |
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Edgar Blaustein, Laurent Coche, Eric De Muynck, Sophie Jacques and Gregory Woodsworth, 10 pages
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Case Studies
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| Country / Region: |
Africa
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| Categories: |
Strategic Frameworks,
Energy Services,
Rural Planning
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| Themes/Issues: |
Access,
Development,
Participation
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| Date Posted: |
2007-04-30 |
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This document, focusing on integrating access to modern energy services into regional and national policies and policy tools, is a UNDP contribution to CSD 15. It presents the experience of three African Regional Economic Councils — ECOWAS in West Africa; CEMAC in Central Africa; EAC in East Africa. With assistance from UNDP and other partners such as the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the European Union Energy Initiative Partnership Dialogue Facility (EUEI PDF), and GTZ, these RECs have moved towards developing and implementing regional strategies to increase access to modern energy services.
The study concludes that the work accomplished by the three African RECs in developing a political consensus on access to energy has laid the foundations for national and regional energy infrastructure investments and expansion of energy service delivery for the poor.
Many projects and programmes are already underway, often predating the regional energy access strategies. They include:
• Regional power pools such as the West Arican Power Pool (WAPP), with projects on cross-boarder power transmission lines and on regulation of power pools;
• National rural electrification programmes, for instance in Senegal, Mali, Kenya and Uganda; and
• National and regional programmes on the sustainable production and use of domestic fuels.
National examples include Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal, Uganda, Zambia; a regional example is PREDAS (Regional Programme for the Promotion of Household and Alternative Energies in the Sahel) in West Africa.
The challenge now before the three regions is to translate national and regional political consensus into investment programmes. Some of the most urgent tasks are to:
• Translate overall regional and national macro planning targets into detailed regional/national investment programmes;
• Strengthen sharing of best practice, notably in the areas of energy contribution to revenue generating activities and in the use of local energy resources; and
• Replicate successful energy service delivery models, taking into account the multiple organisational, financial, social and technical aspects of access to energy.
Also AVAILABLE IN FRENCH, "Stratégies d’insertion de l’accès à l’énergie dans les politiques régionales: l’expérience de trois Communautés Economiques Régionales (CER)," and accessible from link above.
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Chidiezie Chineke
Mainstreaming Access to Energy Services: Experiences from Three African Regional Economic Communities
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2008-07-24
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The report is excellent although there is no country report from Africa's largest nation, Nigeria!
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