April 2007 - CSD 15 Issue
In this Issue:
The 15th session of the UN's annual Commission for Sustainable Development (CSD), focusing on energy for sustainable development, industrial development, air pollution, the environment and climate change, will be held between 30 April and 11 May 2007, at the UN Headquarters in New York. GVEP International will be present at this session – please come and support our events below!
GVEP high-level side event
Thursday 10th May, 6.15-7.45 pm, Conference Room 7
Chaired by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), this side event, “GVEP - Action Programme for Access to Energy” will highlight GVEP International's new business plan and the panel - consisting of high-level representatives from DFID, DGIS (the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs), the Russian Government, the US State Department, the World Bank, UNDP and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development - will outline their new partnership agreements with GVEP International and underline their support for the Partnership as it moves into a dynamic new phase. Read More>
New GVEP Publication - "Partnership in Action"
GVEP International's new publication - "Partnership in Action" - is being launched at CSD 15 to underline the organisation’s aims and objectives and gives examples of the activities of some of the Partners which make up this broad and diverse Partnership. Copies will be available on the GVEP International stand which will be in the Conference Building at UNHQ (Neck Area), on Tuesday, 8th of May, all day, and you can also get a preview by visiting this website link. Read More>
Project Monitoring and Evaluation – a Learning Session
Tuesday 8th of May, 10 am - 1 pm, Conference room B
GVEP International will be leading a learning session on project-level Monitoring and Evaluation based on the guide recently developed by the M&EED International working group. Experts from the group - including GVEP International, the French Foreign Ministry and the Ademe (the French agency for the environment and energy efficiency), GTZ, E+Co and USAID will walk you through the main issues encountered in project-level monitoring and evaluation and will describe the methodologies used in their projects. Read More>
Editorial - RIAED
Networks collaborating to build skills in developing countries
Long term commitment and major funding sources are required to promote access to energy services in developing countries. One of the barriers to mobilising funding is the lack of national expertise to implement adapted programmes for scaling up. Networks like GVEP and RIAED contribute in various ways to strengthen and develop new national expertise. They also make it possible to improve project design, in particular, through their Energy Gateways on the Internet which:
- keep experts in developing countries informed about the latest energy activities: wherever they live and work, these experts can use on line exactly the same information as others;
- allow experts to share knowledge, documents and tools already available in their working language.
This sharing of resources helps each expert to improve his or her project design by learning from the lessons learnt from other projects. It prevents repeating the same studies, and carrying out the same research and testing in each country from scratch … which is a waste of time and money. It speeds up the field-testing stage, being based on wider experiments carried out in the regional area, and also in different geographical and linguistic spaces.In the same way that you have a lot to gain and share within a network, you have a lot to gain and share between distinct international networks. GVEP and RIAED understand the importance of sharing and building expertise and are working closely together to strengthen their collaboration to the benefit of the highest number of experts. (French version available)
Rene Masse
RIAED Coordinator
www.riaed.net