MEPRED EIE04243S07.40688

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MEPREDEIE/04/243/S07.40688

• Mainstreaming Energy for Poverty Reduction and
  economic Development

www.mepred.eu
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How did MEPRED happen?

• From CSD 9 to the Johannesburg Summit
• Energy absent from most developing country
  national strategies
• The European Initiative Energy for Poverty
  Reduction and Sustainable Development
• Request for assistance from African governments
  (at Nairobi conference)
• open an energy dialogue
• integrate energy into development strategies,
  policies

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How MEPRED's partners got together

• Finding partners It takes 2 to dialogue
• identify interested African countries ...
• and interested EU partners
• Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Senegal
• ECOWAS (CEDEAO) with UEMOA
• EU member states
• public body willing and able to conduct dialogue

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Project participants

• Beneficiaries Support from
• ECOWAS/UEMOA UNDP-PREP
• Burkina Faso Danida
• Mali SenterNovem
• Niger ADEME
• Sénégal GTZ
• Financial support from
• EIE-COOPENER
• Denmark, France, Germany, Netherlands
• Project coordinator ADEME
• Project duration 36 months

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Work packages

• Built around South-North dialogue
• Organised by Beneficiary-EU "pairs"
• Adapted to the situation in each country
• nature of assistance requested by public
  authorities
• political and institutional structures
• work already done
• resources, energy service needs
• availability of cofunding

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Multi-actor, multi-sector approach

• Identify the energy services necessary to achieve
  the Millennium development goals
• Integrate energy into development strategies and
  programmes
• Develop economic models for energy service
  delivery
• Optimise the use of local, renewable, energy
  sources
• Strengthen institutional mechanisms
• Capacity building

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Success criteria

• Energy included in strategies, policies and
  indicative programmes (NIP, RIP)
• Secondary criteria (depending on country)
• institutional capacity
• public-private partnerships
• use of local energy resources

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Lessons learned

• Consult national/regional authorities at every
  step of the way
• Pay attention to the relation between COOPENER
  and ODA rules