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Table R12. Programmes Furthering Energy Access: Selected Examples
NAME
ACP-EU Energy Facility
Africa-EU Renewable Energy
Cooperation Programme (RECP)
African Renewable Energy Fund
(AREF)
Asian Development Bank – Energy
for All Initiative
Capital Access for Renewable
Energy Enterprises Programme
(CARE2)
Central America Clean Cooking
Initiative (CACCI)
CleanStart
Energising Development (EnDev)
Energy Environment Resiliency in
Africa (EERA)
EU-Africa Infrastructure Trust Fund
(ITF)
GIZ – HERA Basic Energy Supply
Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves
(GACC)
Global Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy Fund (GEEREF)
Global LEAP Awards for
Outstanding Off-Grid Products
BRIEF DESCRIPTION
A co-financing instrument that works to increase access to sustainable and affordable
energy services in impoverished rural and peri-urban areas of African, Caribbean and
Pacific (ACP) countries by involving local authorities and communities.
A programme that contributes to the African EU Energy Partnership’s political targets of
increasing renewable energy use and bringing modern access to at least an additional
100 million people by 2020. It provides policy advice, private sector co-operation, project
preparation support activities and capacity development.
A private equity fund that invests in small to medium-sized renewable energy projects in
sub-Saharan Africa, excluding South Africa. It aims to assist governments in meeting their
renewable energy and carbon emission targets, while creating jobs.
An initiative that strengthens ADB’s investments in energy access. From 2008 to 2015,
ADB’s aggregate investment in energy access was around USD 6.4 billion, which is
expected to benefit 104.5 million people.
A USD 7 million programme that aims to expand renewable energy markets in Kenya,
Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda through interventions designed to increase the supply
of capital to businesses. CARE2 is supported by the Swedish International Development
Cooperation Agency.
An initiative that aims to help scale up clean cooking solutions in countries such as
Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and possibly El Salvador. Activities to be financed by
the grant include development of a roadmap to achieve universal clean cooking access by
2030. The roadmap will build on the regional Sustainable Energy Strategy 2020.
Developed by the UN Capital Development Fund and UNDP to help poor households and
micro-entrepreneurs access micro-financing for low-cost clean energy. It aims to help lift
at least 2.5 million people out of energy poverty by 2017, in ways that can be replicated and
scaled up by others.
A multilateral initiative supported by the governments of Australia, Germany, the
Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. It operates in 24 countries in
Asia, Africa and Latin America with the aim of facilitating the sustainable access to modern
energy services for at least 15 million people by the end of 2018. So far, EnDev has facilitated
energy access for 14.8 million people.
A project that supports energy decision makers in assessing national energy policy
frameworks and in identifying how energy policies can support climate resilience and
sustainable energy objectives in Benin, Mali and Togo.
A fund that combines grants and loans from the EU and its Member States and banks
to support local infrastructure projects, notably in electricity generation. By end-2013,
36 grants had been approved for projects totalling EUR 240 million in investments.
A project that works on facilitating the access of poor households, social institutions
and small businesses to renewable energy and its sustainable and efficient use.
HERA develops and disseminates strategies and concepts for poverty-oriented basic
energy services and assists energy access projects conducted by GIZ on behalf of
the German government worldwide.
A public-private partnership created with the goal of enabling the adoption of 100 million
clean and efficient cook stoves and fuels by 2020. GACC uses a market-based approach to
bring together diverse groups of actors across government, development, NGOs, academia
and the private sector to save lives, improve livelihoods, empower women and protect the
environment through initiatives designed to catalyse and champion the sector, mobilise
resources, promote standards and testing, and co-ordinate sector knowledge and research.
A sustainable development tool sponsored by the EU, Germany and Norway, advised by the
European Investment Bank Group. It aims to mobilise public and private capital to support
small and medium-sized renewable energy and energy efficiency projects.
An international competition to identify the world’s best-quality low-voltage, direct current
appliances for off-grid use (including LED appliances for room lighting and flat-panel colour
televisions). The first round was awarded in May 2014.
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