Energy Facility Seminar

ACP-EU ENERGY FACILITY SEMINAR AGENDA

DAY 1 THURSDAY 26TH APRIL 2012

8:30 – 9:00 Registration

9:00 – 9:30 Welcome address:

Representative of the DG Development Cooperation, European Commission

Mrs Hélène Fiagan, Acting Head of Department, Sustainable Economic Development and Trade, ACP Secretariat

9:30 – 9:45 Presentation of the participants and the Energy Facility Team in DEVCO C5

9:45 – 10:45 The Energy Facility activities in general:

The Call for Proposals (Alessandro Bianciardi, DG Development Cooperation, Energy Unit)

Assistance to Power Pools (Cristina Traini, DG Development Cooperation, Energy Unit)

Pooling Mechanism (Severina Markova, DG Development Cooperation, Energy Unit)

Support to Governance – the EUEI-PDF (Nicolas Lambert, DG Development Cooperation, Energy Unit)

10:45 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 – 11:25 

Energy Facility II – Lessons learnt from EFI (Annegrete Lausten, Danish Energy Management, TA for the Monitoring of the 9th EDF Energy Facility, Team Leader)

Progress to date and forthcoming activities (Mercedes Marin, Danish Energy Management, TA for the monitoring of the 10th EDF Energy Facility, Team Leader)

Technical seminar: Promotion of good practices in project implementation

11:25 – 13:00 Monitoring and Evaluation:

11:25 – 11:40 Results of Mid Term Review of the 9th EDF Energy Facility, (Alessandro Bianciardi, DG Development Cooperation, Energy Unit)

11:40 – 11:50 Importance of Evaluation (Annegrete Lausten, DEM)

Indicators:

11:50 – 12:15 Indicators for the Measurement of Impact (Anise Sacranie, TA for the monitoring of the Energy Facility)

12:15 – 12:30 Monitoring plan, including project case study (Tantely Rakotoarimanana, La Fondation TANY MEVA, “Pico-hydro électricité au service du développement rural (PHEDER)”, Madagascar)

12:30 – 13:00 Discussion

13:00 – 14:15 LUNCH + networking time

14:15 – 15:00 Procurement in energy projects (preparation, timing, etc.). Brief introduction (Mercedes Marin, DEM)

In the field experience (Jean Baptiste Fauvel, Delegation of the EU to Burkina Faso)

15:00 – 15:30 Questions and answers

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 – 17:00 Sharing knowledge and experience

ACP-EU EF Position Papers (Nicolas Lambert, DG Development Cooperation, Energy Unit)

Communication/dissemination tools developed in the Energy Facility Monitoring (website, newsletter, case studies), (Anise Sacranie, DEM)

Thematic fiches (Anise Sacranie, DEM)

Capacity4Dev website (Joao Nolasco, DG Development Cooperation, Energy Unit)

17:00 – 17:30 Discussion and short introduction to the Thematic Sessions and Registration of participants to Capacity4Dev website

18:00 Cocktail

19:00 – 21:30 BUFFET DINNER (seating)

DAY 2 FRIDAY 27^TH APRIL 2012

9:30 – 9:45 General introduction to Thematic Sessions (Mercedes Marin, DEM)

9:45 – 13:00 Thematic sessions (in separated rooms).

Each thematic session starts with the selection of a rapporteur, before presentations from Energy Facility I projects.

11:30 Coffee Break

Thematic Sessions:

I. Wind and Solar

Solar PV: Fasil Tsegaye Abebe, Plan International Ethiopia, “Community Managed Renewable Energy for Rural Ethiopia (CMRE)”;

Wind: Yves Maigne, Fondation Énergies pour le Monde, « RESOUTH », Madagascar.

II. Small hydro

Mario Eduardo Batsana, FUNAE “Electrificaçào da Comunidade de Majaua”, Mozambique

Chandirekera Sarah Mutubuki-Makuyana, Practical Action, “Catalysing Modern& Energy Service Delivery to Marginal Communities in Southern Africa, Malawi Mozambique, Zimbabwe”.

III. Biomass and Bio-fuels and Energy Efficiency

Biomass: Kavita Rai, GVEP International, “Developing Energy Enterprises Project (DEEP) East Africa”;

Supply side: Mone Van Geit, WWF-Be, “Eco Makala - Viabilisation durable de l'approvisionnement en bois-énergie des populations rurales riveraines de la ville de Goma » ;

Stoves: Joseline Namara Kwesiga, GIZ, “Providing Access to Modern Energy in Northern Uganda – PAMENU”

IV. Governance and grid extension

Grid extension and Governance: John Ulrich Fimpel, GIZ, programme d’électrification rurale par raccordement au réseau, Bénin;

Governance: Denis Rambaud-Méasson, IED, Renforcement du CLUB-ER

13:00 – 14:30 LUNCH + time for networking

14:30 – 16:00 Presentation in plenary of conclusions from each thematic session

Discussion and wrap up