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World Bank Energy Week, Washington DC, March 2006

Harnessing Energy for Poverty Reduction. www.gvep.org. GVEP Progress and Challenges Ahead. Abeeku Brew-Hammond Manager, GVEP Technical Secretariat. World Bank Energy Week, Washington DC, March 2006. GVEP Overview.

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World Bank Energy Week, Washington DC, March 2006

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  1. Harnessing Energy for Poverty Reduction www.gvep.org GVEP Progress and Challenges Ahead Abeeku Brew-Hammond Manager, GVEP Technical Secretariat World Bank Energy Week, Washington DC, March 2006

  2. GVEP Overview • Vision: a world in which access to energy services is provided for the unserved or underserved in a manner that enhances economic and social development, and reduces poverty. • Objectives • Catalyze country commitments to energy-poverty reduction • Improve communications among investors, suppliers & users • Facilitate policy and regulatory frameworks for scale-up • Serve as a marketplace for lessons learned, best practices • Create and maintain effective coordination mechanisms

  3. GVEP Value Added • Amplifying and conveying the energy access message • Demonstrating and brokering solutions • Creating a space for dialogue and converting talk into action

  4. Multiple Stakeholders • National Government • Municipal/Local Government • Non-Government Organisations • Community-based Organisations • Academia • Small/Medium Enterprises • Large Companies/ Utilities • Major Financial Institutions/ Donors • Local / Micro Finance Institutions • Media • etc

  5. Consolidating and Scaling Up Country Actions with Targetted Support Services & Multiple Actors Poverty Reduction and other Development Goals Finance Facilitation Capacity Development Country Actions Knowledge Management Results Monitoring

  6. GVEP Country Actions • National Action Plans • Brazil, Cameroon, Guatemala (Completed) • Ghana, Honduras, Indonesia, Kenya, etc (In progress) • Reorientation of Existing Access Programmes • Brazil, Senegal, South Africa • GAPfund/Small-Scale Energy Projects • Demonstrate innovative approaches to energy services for the poor (151 proposals received from 41 countries)

  7. GVEP Partnership Base Challenge Ahead: Mobilising partners from other stakeholder groups (particularly private sector/ inudstry)

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