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REFERENCE TABLES
Table R12. Programmes Furthering Energy Access: Selected Examples (continued)
NAME
Global Lighting and Energy Access
Partnership (Global LEAP)
Global Sustainable Energy Islands
Initiative (GSEII)
Green Climate Fund (GCF)
IDEAS – Energy Innovation Contest
IRENA – Abu Dhabi Fund for
Development (ADFD)
Lighting a Billion Lives
Lighting Africa
Lighting Asia
The OPEC Fund for International
Development (OFID)
Power Africa
Readiness for Investment in
Sustainable Energy (RISE)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION
An initiative of the Clean Energy Ministerial that includes more than 10 governments
and development partners. It provides support for quality assurance frameworks
and programmes that encourage market transformation towards super-efficient
technologies for off-grid use.
An initiative that works with NGOs and multilateral institutions to help small-island
developing states (SIDS) address energy security and climate change issues. It has helped
nine SIDS to build human capacity, increase awareness and implement energy efficiency
and renewable energy projects. It has spent about USD 1 million on the preparation of
national energy plans, biofuel feasibility studies, energy efficiency training and renewable
energy projects.
A fund emerging from the COP climate change discussions in Copenhagen, Denmark
and Durban, South Africa, to co-ordinate and consolidate funding on climate change
mitigation and adaptation. It attempts to harmonise ongoing global financing efforts
related to energy and transport infrastructure (among others) from the World Bank, the GEF,
the Adaptation Fund, the CDM of the Kyoto Protocol and the G8.
A contest that supports the implementation of innovative projects in the areas of
renewable energy, energy efficiency and energy access in Latin America and the
Caribbean by promoting innovative energy solutions that can be replicated and
scaled up in the region.
A fund to support renewable energy projects that offer innovative and replicable
approaches to broaden energy access; address several socio-economic issues identified
in the Millennium Development Goals and SE4All objectives; and address energy
security issues.
A global initiative launched in 2008, steered by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI),
to facilitate access to clean lighting and cooking solutions for energy-starved communities.
The programme operates on an entrepreneurial model of energy service delivery to provide
innovative, affordable and reliable off-grid solar solutions. As of March 2015, it had facilitated
access to clean lighting and cooking solutions for more than 3.5 million people in India,
sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
An IFC and World Bank programme to accelerate the development of sustainable
markets for affordable, modern off-grid lighting solutions for low-income households and
micro-enterprises across Africa. As of early 2014, Lighting Africa had provided access
to clean, safe lighting for more than 7.7 million people.
An IFC market transformation programme aimed at increasing access to clean, affordable
energy in rural Bangladesh and India by promoting modern off-grid lighting products,
systems and mini-grid connections. The programme works with the private sector to
remove market entry barriers, provide market intelligence, foster business to business
linkages and raise consumer awareness on modern lighting options. It aims to reach
3 million people in India and 2.3 million people in Bangladesh by 2016.
A development aid institution with a 40-year standing and a presence in over 130 countries.
It works in co-operation with developing country partners and the international donor
community to stimulate economic growth and alleviate poverty. Since 2008, the year
that OFID launched its Energy for the Poor Initiative (EPI), energy poverty alleviation has
been the primary strategic focus. In June 2012, the OFID Ministerial Council committed
a minimum of USD 1 billion to bolster activities under the EPI, and in 2013 it turned this
commitment from a one-time obligation to a revolving pledge.
A US government initiative to address access to electricity in sub-Saharan Africa.
It has a target to double energy access in sub-Saharan Africa, using renewable energy,
by adding more than 60 million new household and business connections. In August
2014, an additional combined USD 12 billion was pledged by Norway, Sweden and the
United Kingdom.
A World Bank Group project providing indicators that compare the investment climate
of countries across the three focus areas of the SE4All initiative: energy access,
energy efficiency and renewable energy.
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