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As part of its strategic work program, SE4ALL has established a number of regional and thematic hubs within its overall institutional framework. The World Bank—through ESMAP and the Energy and Extractives Global Practice—hosts the SE4ALL Global Knowledge Hub, which will facilitate the creation, enhancement, and exchange of knowledge for the overall initiative.
Work under the Knowledge Hub will focus on two areas: (i) research that supports implementation of SE4ALL initiatives through frameworks that track and monitor progress and provide feedback; and (ii) knowledge management work that collects information and data around key policy experiences and cases, and makes it readily accessible to policy- and decision-makers.
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Sustainable Energy for All Knowledge Hub
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Sustainable Energy for All Technical Assistance Program
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As part of the World Bank Group’s commitments to global Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) initiative, announced at the UN’s Rio+20 Summit, ESMAP has scaled up activities to support achievement of the goals of this global initiative. One of these activities is the Global Knowledge Hub.
This is one of a number of regional and thematic hubs established by SE4ALL: it is designed to facilitate the creation, enhancement, and exchange of knowledge for the overall initiative. As part of the work under this hub, ESMAP has developed the following initiatives:
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As part of the World Bank Group’s commitments to the global Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) initiative, announced at the UN’s Rio+20 Summit, ESMAP has launched a technical assistance program to help countries achieve the goal of universal energy access. The scale of the challenge is enormous: in 2010, there were 1.2 billion people living without access to electricity, and 2.8 billion people without access to modern household fuels or improved cookstoves. The technical assistance program works with selected countries that have joined the SE4ALL initiative, helping them to develop the policy frameworks, strengthen the institutions, and mobilize the financing necessary to expand and accelerate their national energy access programs.
The goal of the ESMAP program is to help extend energy access to 200 million people by 2030. The initial US$15 million phase of the program, which began in 2013, extends support to 10 countries: Burundi, Guatemala, Guinea, Honduras, Liberia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicaragua, and Senegal, as well as technical assistance and financing studies to help strengthen regional power pools in Subâ Saharan Africa. Support is targeted to the specific needs of countries and regions, and takes into account existing national programs for expanding access. |
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Contact: Venkat Putti