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Energising the Millennium Development Goals - Setting the Enabling Environment in Southern Africa

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Southern Africa is endowed with diverse energy resources both renewable and conventional but access to modern energy services by the poor remains a pipe dream owing to poor management and planning. The sector has serious skills and capacity gaps and planners are biased towards large-scale commercially oriented projects, curtailing local poverty reduction focused energy initiatives. The action will bridge the disconnection between central, national energy policy, planning and implementation and local level development planning. The action will target district-planning system levels so low to respond to the poor’s needs. It will strengthen the cross-sectoral linkages between energy and the more common locally represented services such as health, agriculture and environment as guided by the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Tools will be developed that will be used at local level to link energy planning and poverty reduction. The project will be in two districts each of Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

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It addresses the structural problems in linking energy planning and poverty reduction at community level.

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