GVEP, The Global Village Energy Partnership, is a non-profit organisation that works to increase access to modern energy and reduce poverty in developing countries.
There are 1.5 billion people in the developing world who live without electricity; and 2.5 billion people who rely on wood, charcoal, animal dung and kerosene for fuel.
Energy helps to meet many basic human needs – heat, light, water and transport. The lack of affordable and reliable energy hinders human, economic and social development.
GVEP works with local energy businesses to make an impact on this enormous problem, there where state or large utilities’ interventions are unlikely to reach. We help establish and grow small and medium size energy businesses in rural and poor periurban areas so that they can achieve lasting access to clean energy and improve the quality of life of millions of people in developing countries. We do this by bringing energy businesses the enabling resources they need to take off and become self-sustaining.
We work across Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. Our experienced executive team operate from regional offices as well as our London head office. They report to a distinguished Board, which includes a wide range of private sector and development agency specialists, experts and consultants from the arenas of renewable energy, carbon finance and investment.
The Global Village Energy Partnership (GVEP) was established at the 2002 World Summit for Sustainable Development in Johannesburg. Its aim was to increase access to modern energy services to reduce poverty in the world’s developing countries -this remains our objective today. In 2006 GVEP became a UK registered charity (No. 1119168). Since then our work has helped change the lives of about one million people by giving them access to clean energy.
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