MEPRED EIE04243S07.40688

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MEPREDEIE/04/243/S07.40688
COOPENER

• Mainstreaming Energy for Poverty Reduction and
  economic Development

www.mepred.net (web site under construction)
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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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Multi-actor, multi-sector approach

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

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Project participants

• Beneficiaries Support from
• ECOWAS/UEMOA France (MAE) UNDP-PREP
• Burkina Faso Denmark (Danida)
• Mali Netherlands (DGIS SenterNovem)
• Niger France (ADEME)
• Senegal Germany (BMZ, GTZ)
• IEEA-COOPENER
• Project coordinator ADEME
• Project duration 36 months

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Regional policy

• White Paper on access to energy services
• Regional action plan, investment plan
• access to modern energy services for half of
  population, by 2015
• fourfold increase on 2005
• Regional multi-sectoral committee
• linked to national committees

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Senegal

• Support for CIMES
• Senegalese multi-sectoral committee
• Participative forest management
• Develop modern biomass
• Typha Australis
• 3 barrel technology
• Industrial scale technology for carbonisation

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Niger Strategy for local execution
Sectoral activities contributing to poverty
reduction
Local Public Authority
Health centres
Water wells
Refrigeration, lighting, sterilisation
Primary schools
Water pumping
Local Energy Bassin
Lighting, information and communication
Energy service providers
Local authority
Public services
Other clients households
Other clients Craftsmen
Cooking, TV, radio
Motive power
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Niger Progress

• Creation of institutional infrastructure
• "Comité National Multisectoriel Énergie" (CNME)
• MEPRED-NIGER entity within the Ministry of Energy
  
• sectoral groups (health, education, water,
  agriculture)
• Territorial approach
• identification of sectoral energy needs
• Initial results, energy programmes by June 2006.

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• THANK YOU VERY MUCH