Global Network On Energy for Sustainable

Development

Energy for Poverty Reduction

CSD14

New York, May 2006

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

The GNESD Focus

Energy for the Achievement of the Millennium Development Goals

Energy for Poverty Alleviation

Sustainable Energy Production and Consumption

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.

Accountability & Transparency

GNESD Structure:

Steering Committee Steering Committee

SecretariatSecretariat

Network Members

-Established Energy Centres-Energy Research Institutions

Network Partners

-Government agencies-UN organizations / IGOs-International Development Banks-Existing regional energy networks-NGOs-Private sector companies and industry associations-Donors

Ad Hoc Working Groups

Network AssemblyNetwork Assembly

A Global Network = Strength

•AEA Technology (UK)•AFREPREN (Kenya)•Asian Institute of Technology (Thailand)•Fundación Bariloche (Argentina)•Energy Research Centre (South Africa)•Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (Netherlands)•Energy Research Group, American University of Beirut (Lebanon)•Energy Research Institute (China)•Environmental Development Action in the Third World, (Senegal)•Fraunhofer Institute (Germany) •Institute of Energy Economics (Japan)•Institute of Energy Policy and Economics Université Pierre Mendès-France, (France)

•International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics, Lund University (Sweden)•KFA Research Centre Jülich (Germany)•Mediterranean Renewable Energy Centre MEDREC (Tunisia)•National Renewable Energy Laboratory (USA)•Stockholm Environment Institute – Boston Center (USA)•Energy and Resources Institute (India)•The University of São Paulo and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)•UNEP RISO Centre (Denmark)•University of the South Pacific (Fiji)

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Thank you

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