Global Network On Energy for Sustainable Development

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• Global Network On Energy for Sustainable
  Development
• Energy for Poverty Reduction
• CSD14
• New York, May 2006

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Partnership in Practice

• GNESD a Partnership of Centres of excellence
• Objectives and approach
• Member Centres
• Activity focus
• How we work
• Priority Thematic Programmes
• Building capacity having policy impacts

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The GNESD Focus

Energy for the Achievement of the Millennium
Development Goals
Energy for Poverty Alleviation
Sustainable Energy Production and Consumption
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An action oriented partnership

• GNESD A Type II partnership of the WSSD
• GNESD Objective
• to promote sustainable development and poverty
  alleviation by expanding the knowledge base about
  environmentally sound provision of energy
  services.
• To achieve this objective the Network promotes
• information exchange
• learning, analysis and study
• policy support
• capacity building and
• advocacy, with a focus on issues of concern to
  developing countries.

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Accountability Transparency

• GNESD Structure

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A Global Network Strength

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Partnering to achieve results

• GNESD is collaborating with key partnerships to
  increase synergies and impacts
• Policy analysis result implementation and
  analysis needs feed-back
• Regional information Outreach

• Project review support
• Joint workshops
• African GNESD Centres support project development
  for EU energy facility

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2005 MilestonesEnergy Access

• Access Research Phase
• Technical reports from all 8 participating
  Centres
• Access Dissemination Phase
• Data compilation (completed in 2004)
• Bonn RE 2004 Conference papers (completed in
  2004)
• Journal articles Special issue of ESD Journal

• UNDP component on outreach and networking draft
  assessment report
• Access Implementation
• In-depth analysis of key policy options by
  Centres undertaken early 2005.
• Draft reports currently under peer review
• Early 2006 comparative assessment and policy
  summary

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2005 Milestones Renewable Energy and Poverty

• RE Research Phase
• Technical reports by 9 participating centres
• Comparative assessment
• Policy summary
• Flyers and newsletter
• RE Policy Options Phase
• Key options identified and 9 Centres resumed in
  October

• Regional Workshops on Electricity Development
  (In collaboration with UNEP/URC, UNDP IEA)
• Bangkok - AIT
• Rio de Janeiro - COPPE
• Nairobi - AFREPREN
• Summary report of main workshop findings
• MDG scoping paper by Co-Chairs

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2006 Milestones

• Thematic activities
• Finalisation of access policy options phase (1st
  quarter)
• Finalisation of RE policy options phase (4th
  quarter)
• New activities for second half of 2006
• Regional workshops on RE and Poverty (Argentina,
  Senegal India, second half of 2006)
• Initiation of new theme on peri urban energy and
  security of supply
• RE Statistics with IEA GEF, as possible
  seperate project activity
• Capacity building of Centres

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Results Impact

• GNESD has established a an effective South-South
  partnership and has taken part in and influenced
  discussions at global events
• GNESD results are quoted in publications from
  major energy institutions like the World Energy
  Council, the World Bank, REN21, the International
  Energy Agency, etc.
• GNESD has helped moving debate forward in new and
  less understood subjects, e.g. the impacts of
  power reform on the poor. The GNESD findings
  documented that reforms often have had negative
  consequences on them.
• Appropriate policies and sequencing of reforms
  can yield positive results. Findings created
  controversy, but have since become generally
  accepted.

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Impact Examples

• Contribution to national policy documents and
  approaches
• Electricity tariff policy in Lebanon
• Pro-poor rural electrification in Kenya
• Renewable energy law in China
• Review of tariffs to ensure explicit subsidies
  for the poor (Lebanon)
• Access work used by national institutions
• Utilities in Argentina
• Energy Secretariat of Argentina
• Establishment or strengthening of close links
  with government ministries and other institutions

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Thank you

• www.gnesd.org