Development Policy

This topic deals with general and transversal development policy issues such as the Agenda for Change, the MDGS and the Post-2015 global framework, or research for development.

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Millennium Development Goals - Policy coherence for development - Policy making - South-South cooperation - Sustainable development - Sustainable Development Goals - Triangular cooperation

$200m in mini-grid and stand alone renewable energy schemes in Nigeria

Zaira Girbau Garcia posted Information | 25 June 2010

The World Bank also announced that it will invest $200m in mini-grid and stand alone renewable energy schemes in Nigeria. It said the federal and state governments, co-financiers of the project, will pool an extra $100m. To read the full article please click here .

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Group: African Renewable Energy Technology Platform - AFRETEP
World Bank Scores Africa Low in Power Generation and to invest $200m in rural electrification project

Zaira Girbau Garcia posted Information | 25 June 2010

The World Bank has said that only 24 per cent of the Sub-Saharan Africa population could access electricity in spite of the various interventions to address energy power crisis on the continent. This clarification was made known by the bank's Senior Specialist on Energy, Wagar Haider, at a workshop...

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Group: African Renewable Energy Technology Platform - AFRETEP
The Sustainably Energy Campaign and Africa

Zaira Girbau Garcia posted Information | 25 June 2010

Beyond the games: revolutionising energy in Africa There is no doubt that the 2010 World Cup games in South Africa are energising the continent in a figurative sense. But Africa has some very real and very tangible energy needs. What is the energy outlook for this vast continent? Are sustainable...

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Group: African Renewable Energy Technology Platform - AFRETEP
Greenpeace proposes a funding mechanism to roll out renewables in developing countries

Zaira Girbau Garcia posted Information | 26 May 2010

At the Conference on the Mediterranean Solar Plan in Valencia (Spain) last week, Greenpeace presented a financial mechanism to boost renewable energy uptake in developing countries that would "give rise to the most clean energy at the lowest cost, so that between 1,600 and 2,300 GW of renewable...

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Group: African Renewable Energy Technology Platform - AFRETEP
Moving Towards a Shared South-South Cooperation Policy

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 23 April 2010

The broadly worded South-South policy recommendations, signed off at the recent international event in Bogota, reflect a cautious step towards an international consensus.

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The first High Level Meeting of the Africa-EU Energy Partnership (AEEP)

Zaira Girbau Garcia posted Information | 8 April 2010

Africa and Europe are strengthening their energy cooperation. In the framework of the Africa-EU Energy Partnership (AEEP), two major events take place in Vienna on 20-22 April 2010: The first High Level Meeting of the AEEP and the Global Forum on Sustainable Energy. High Level Meeting (HLM) The...

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Group: African Renewable Energy Technology Platform - AFRETEP
The Kenyan biomass smoke project

Zaira Girbau Garcia uploaded a new Document | 10 February 2010

BiomassKEnya_ProjectSustainabilityRequirements.pdf 269.05 KB

From user involvement to user initiative: the role of priority identification in facilitating sustainability in renewable energy projects - Temilade Agbaje ( EWB-UK research conference 2009 presentation ).

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Group: African Renewable Energy Technology Platform - AFRETEP

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