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DEA Regional Workshop

Contributed by Fran Humber
Added: 16 July 2007

A regional workshop on energy and development will be held on 16-18 October in Arusha, Tanzania.

Access to energy is an essential input in the process of development and poverty alleviation. Better understanding of development-poverty-energy linkages, and embodiment of this knowledge in an operational tool, can contribute to increasing the development and poverty alleviation impacts of energy interventions. DEA has developed an Assessment Framework (AF) to identify and quantify the outcomes and impacts of energy projects, in collaboration with centres in six African countries (Botswana, Ghana, Mali, Senegal, Tanzania and Zambia).

DEA works closely with the International Monitoring and Evaluation for Energy and Development (M&EED) Group established by GVEP, EUEI, UNEP, DFID, GTZ and other institutions. The AF uses a 4-level causal chain approach to structure the energy intervention in terms of inputs, outputs, outcomes and impacts. Indicators are selected at each level and the assessment process identifies appropriate sources and methods to evaluate the indicators.

Six case studies have been carried out in the participating countries, comprising:

  • rural electrification by grid connection (Botswana and Ghana)
  • rural electrification by solar ESCOs (Zambia)
  • solar water pumping and agriculture (Tanzania)
  • renewable energy for women (Mali)
  • improved cookstoves and sustainable forestry (Senegal)
The Arusha Workshop is the final event in the 30-month DEA project which started in 2005. The workshop’s purpose is to present and discuss the results of the project in a broader context to stakeholders from the six target countries as well as from other African countries. Representatives of bilateral and multilateral donors, NGOs, and participants in other COOPENER projects in Africa are also encouraged to attend.

Download the programme pdf file link here (162 KB)

For further information on DEA at Arusha October 2007, please contact Gordon Mackenzie at Risø or any of the African project partners. Information on DEA, the project partners, the Assessment Framework and the case studies are to be found at www.deafrica.net. UNEP Risø Centre for Energy, Climate Change and Sustainable Development
Systems Analysis Department
Risø National Laboratory
Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
DK 4000 Roskilde, Denmark
Tel: +45 46 77 51 71
Fax: +45 46 32 19 99
gordon.mackenzie@...

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