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Guatemala Workshop

GVEP Assessment in Latin America and Caribbean
Eight Latin American countries (six GVEP countries: Guatemala, Honduras, Dominican Republic, Peru, Bolivia, Mexico and two non-GVEP countries: Nicaragua and El Salvador) participated in GVEP’s LAC meeting on the 12 th and 13 th December, which was hosted by GTZ and held in Antigua, Guatemala. Read more »

Partner Activities

ADS (Association Developpement et Solidarite) in Niger
ADS (The Development and Solidarity Association), a GVEP partner, has been involved for over 10 years in a programme which supports the Tuareg population in North Niger. The Association works in the areas of education, health, energy and agriculture (water access, reforestation, subsistence crops, etc.). Read more »

Jatropha tree plantation

TREE OILS INDIA promoting Biodiesel in India
Tree Oils India Ltd. (TOIL) was established to build up an environment friendly and sustainable energy system based on plant sources, to contribute to waste land utilisation and the employment of rural women and to promote ethics and self reliance. TOIL is primarily engaged in the manufacture of Biodiesel from non-edible tree oils such as Jatropha and Pongamia etc. Read more »

RIAED, International Network : Access to sustainable energy
RIAED is a network of francophone experts involved in different energy access projects in developing countries. It was set up in January 2006 and the first three years of the project will be financed by the European Commission’s Intelligent Energy Program, the IEPF and the ADEME. Visit the Riaed website on line at the following address: www.riaed.net. Read more »

Editorial

Dear GVEP Partner,

Mexico Workshop

On Thursday 28th September in Mexico City a conference was held entitled The GVEP Renewable Energy Rural Electrification Project for Mexico under the combined banners of the Mexican Secretaria de Energia (SENER), GVEP and the World Bank. The conference marked the culmination and bringing together of the work carried out to date under the GVEP initiative in Mexico and was attended by national and state government representatives as well as the donor community, private sector, academia and NGOs. Presented at the conference were outcomes from a range of studies focussing respectively on institutional, structural, regulatory, social, financial and technical contexts for rural electrification in Mexico, looking both backwards at past experience and forwards to mechanisms and strategies for delivery. Although the conference marked the conclusion of the initiative to date, the sense was very much of a movement forwards to action. The World Bank are leading a $30M rural electrification project in Mexico which will build on the lessons and recommendations of the GVEP initiative in the country. Delivery of pilot projects through improved institutional and financial mechanisms are being co-ordinated at state, national and international levels leveraging capacity and building understanding through the forums created and studies conducted under the GVEP initiative. Read the full editorial »

Steven Hunt
Energy Consultant and International Project Manager
Practical Action Consulting (formerly ITC)