Workshop for African Energy Experts on Operationalising the NEPAD Energy Initiative

2 -4 June 2003
Dakar, Senegal

In partnership with the Government of Senegal, the United Nations convened a workshop of African energy experts on the New Partnership for Africa?s Development (NEPAD) energy initiative. The overall objective of the workshop, which took place from 2-4 June 2003 in Dakar, Senegal, was to provide a forum for inputs by African energy experts into the operationalisation of the NEPAD energy initiative. Some 30 African energy experts participated in the workshop, drawn from the ranks of universities and research institutions, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), government agencies and the private sector. The Energy and Transport Branch joined forces with the Office of the Special Adviser on Africa and the United Nations Environment Programme?Collaborating Centre on Energy and Environment to fund and organise the workshop.

The workshop aimed to identify gaps in the understanding of the linkages between climate change and sustainable development, examine and discuss analytical tools to improve the understanding of the link between climate change and sustainable development, and assist countries to integrate adaptation and mitigation strategies and policies into national sustainable development plans and strategies.

PROGRAMME & CONCEPT NOTE

Agenda (English)
Agenda (French)
Aide Memoire

OTHER DOCUMENTS

Workshop Report
List of Participants
Operationalizing the NEPAD Energy Initiative: Elements for an Action Plan
Power Sector Development in Africa
Problems and Prospects for Hydropower Development in Africa
Renewable Energy in Africa: Prospects and Limits

STATEMENTS & PRESENTATIONS

• STATEMENTS
  Opening remarks
  Honourable Macky Sall, State Minister of Mines, Energy and Water (French)
  Opening remarks
  Ms. Yvette Stevens, Office of the Special Adviser on Africa, United Nations (English)

• PRESENTATIONS
  A Third Way for the Electricity Industry
  Gudrun Lammers
  Energy access in rural areas
  Peter Zhou
  Harmonising the Regulatory Environment in Africa
  Xolani Mkhwanazi
  Hydropower Development in Africa: Problems and Prospects
  E.A.K. Kalitsi
  Overview, Challenges and Elements of Plan of Action
  Ogunlade Davidson, Youba Sokona & Njeri Wamukonya
  Regulatory Instruments to Advance Public Benefits
  Anton Eberhard