Communicating Energy in Southern Africa



Contract partner: SARDC - Southern African Research and Documentation Centre Country: Subsahara-Afrika, regional/länderübergreifend Funding amount: € 575.000,00 Project start: 01.04.2014 End: 30.06.2017

Short Description:

Overall goal


The project will contribute to ADC’s objective of creating access to affordable, reliable and sustainable energy services in the SADC Region. Although having a rich endowment of energy resources such as natural gas, hydropower, wind and solar the SADC Region faces serious energy challenges. The prevailing instability is compounded by many factors, e.g. energy takes an essentially national as opposed to a regional approach; tariff levels that are caught between the viability and access conundrum; capacity issues at both the national and the regional levels and energy sector reforms that are generally perceived to be moving at a sluggish pace.


Communication mechanisms and tools are needed to broaden awareness on issues at play and thus contribute to finding lasting solutions.


The purpose of the project is that a functional platform for information sharing and knowledge dissemination contributes to informed policy decisions about the use and control of the energy resources in the SADC Region. And as such the expected outputs are mainly knowledge products namely

• 6 editions of ‘SADC Today’ per year and one ‘Southern African News Features’ per month

• at least 2 bulletins of ‘SADC Energy Thematic Group and policy briefs per year

• an annual ‘SADC Energy Investment Book’

• the first edition of the ‘SADC Energy Monitor’ and

• the maintenance of the ‘SADC Energy Portal’, www.sardc.net and www.sadc.int.


The implementing agency is SARDC which provides to the SADC knowledge and information support and has an extensive knowledge and experience of the SADC regional issues.


The main partner of SARDC is SADC Secretariat. Main target groups are subsidiary organizations of SADC such as SAPP and SACREEE, the international cooperating partners of SADC, the 15 SADC member state governments and policy makers, the private sector and investors as well as universities and research institutions in the SADC Region.

project number 2753-00/2014
source of funding OEZA
sector Energiegewinnung, -Verteilung und -Effizienz, allgemein
tied
modality
marker
  • Policy marker: are used to identify, assess and facilitate the monitoring of activities in support of policy objectives concerning gender equality, aid to environment, participatory development/good governance, trade development and reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health. Activities targeting the objectives of the Rio Conventions include the identification of biodiversity, climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, and desertification.
    • 1= policy is a significant objective of the activity
    • 2= policy is the principal objective of the activity
  • Donor/ source of funding: The ADA is not only implementing projects and programmes of the Austrian Development Cooperation , but also projects funded from other sources and donors such as
    • AKF - Foreign Disaster Fund of the Austrian federal government
    • BMLFUW - Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water
    • EU - Funds of the European Commission
    • Others - various other donors are listed in ADA’s annual business report.
  • Type of Aid – Aid modalities: classifies transfers from the donor to the first recipient of funds such as budget support, core contributions and pooled programmes and funds to CSOs and multilateral organisations, project-type interventions, experts and other technical assistance, scholarships and student costs in donor countries, debt relief, administrative costs and other in-donor expenditures.
  • Purpose/ sector code: classifies the specific area of the recipient’s economic or social structure, funded by a bilateral contribution.
  • Tied/Untied: Untied aid is defined as loans and grants whose proceeds are fully and freely available to finance procurement from all OECD countries and substantially all developing countries. Transactions are considered tied unless the donor has, at the time of the aid offer, clearly specified a range of countries eligible for procurement which meets the tests for “untied” aid.