Institutional Approaches to Electrification. The Experience of Rural Energy Agencies/ Rural Energy Funds in Sub-Saharan Africa

The report summarizes a Practitioner Workshop by the Africa Electrification Initiative (AEI), which gathered about 230 practitioners from 41 countries, including 33 Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries whose day-to-day activities concentrate on electrification. The focus was on ground-level implementation of different institutional approaches to electrification, with particular attention on the experiences of rural energy agencies/rural energy funds across SSA.

SADC Regional Energy Access Strategy and Action Plan. Southern African Development Community

Improving energy access is a major goal of energy policy in all SADC Member States. The document first provides definitions and principles for a 21st-century energy access strategy. The operational energy access goals are then elaborated in specific strategic objectives of the SADC Strategy, which serve as the foundation of the Action Plan that is presented.

Action Plan for the Promotion of Access to Energy in the CEMAC Region. Summary of Final Report

The Energy Ministers of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC) called for the elaboration of a CEMAC Energy Action Plan. It is geared primarily to rural and peri-urban zones, and intents to initiate a CEMAC-wide impetus in the energy sector in a bid to meet the objective of reducing poverty by 2015.

Study on the establishment of a West African Regional Agency for Energy Access (RAEA). Executive Summary

The ECOWAS/UEMOA Member States have committed themselves to a White Paper on Energy Access, which proposes the establishment of a Regional Agency for Energy Access (RAEA). This report, financed by EUEI PDF, proposes the institutional setup and program for the RAEA as a lean and goal-oriented agency that can respond quickly and professionally to the challenge of regional energy access.