July 2006 Newsletter
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Country Actions
Russia Pledges to contribute US $30 million to GVEP
The recent G8 Finance Ministers' official statement released on the public G8 website states that "Russia has decided to join other donors by contributing US$30 million to GVEP in order to scale up its work in sub-Saharan Africa". This follows several months of work by some of GVEP's major partners within the framework of the G8 discussions. For the full statement, Read more »
GAPFund finalists selected
The GVEP Action Programs Fund (GAPFund) was set up with ESMAP of the World Bank. Winrock International, the appointed GAPFund Manager, requested proposals last October, for activities which increased access to modern energy services... Read more »
ECOWAS at crossroads
The second meeting of the ECOWAS Regional Multisectoral Committee(RMC) took place in Dakar at the end of March. ECOWAS is now at a major crossroads in terms of energy access. Read more »
Partner Activities
GVEP Partners win Ashden Award for Sustainable Energy
Four GVEP Partners have won the top prize for the Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy 2006. GIRA (Grupo Interdisciplinario de Tecnología Rural Apropriada), a GVEP Partner from Mexico, won the first prize in the "Health and Welfare" category... Read more »
GVEP in Kenya
Two GVEP Partners, EDF (France) and Aberdare Engineering (Kenya) invited GVEP to come and present the new business plan as well as lessons learnt in rural and urban energy programmes throughout the world to the senior management of the Kenya Power and Lighting Company... Read more »
Growing GREEN Empowerment
Green Empowerment is an organisation based in Oregon, USA which promotes social justice and environmental sustainability in developing countries. Read more »
Editorial
"Dear GVEP Partners,
These are exciting times for GVEP!
As you will have seen in our recent newsflash, under the G8 framework the Russian Government has committed US$30 million for our projects in sub-Saharan Africa. We would like to begin by saying a big "Thank you" for the combined support behind the scenes of a number of major GVEP donor and institutional Partners over the past few months which has made this commitment possible."
Read the full editorial on our website and send us your ideas for this exciting new phase for GVEP!
Sarah Adams
Acting Manager GVEP International