Contribution SACREEE, Establishment and First Operational Phase



Contract partner: UNIDO - United Nations Industrial Development Organization Country: Subsahara-Afrika, regional/länderübergreifend Funding amount: € 1.800.000,00 Project start: 15.12.2013 End: 31.03.2020

Short Description:

Overall goal


At the 33. Meeting of the SADC Ministers of Energy in May 2013 the Ministers directed the SADC Secretariat to prepare the establishment of the Southern African Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (SACREEE). Inspired by the successful model of the ECOWAS Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ECREEE) the SADC Secretariat requested the Government of Austria and UNIDO to support in the establishment and first operational phase of SACREEE.


SACREEE, a subsidiary organisation of SADC, will contribute towards increasing access to modern energy services and improving energy security in all SADC Member States. Planned as regional think-tank for sustainable energy issues, SACREEE aims at the establishment of an enabling environment for regional renewable energy and energy efficiency markets and investments by mitigating existing barriers. SACREEE will execute regional interventions in the areas of policy and capacity development, knowledge management, awareness raising as well as business and investment promotion. Additionally SACREEE will also lead the coordination and harmonisation of donor activities of the UN Sustainable Energy for All Initiative in the SADC Region.


SACREEE will operate through a Secretariat and a network of National Focal Institutions among all fifteen SADC Member States.


The first phase of Austria’s contribution comprises of a sixth-months start-up phase and a thirty-six months operational phase. The key results are as follows

- SACREEE institutionally established

- contributions to regional renewable energy and energy efficiency policies developed and under implementation

- a regional capacity building program implemented including an energy information system and

- sustainable energy investments and businesses promoted.


UNIDO will assist in institution building of SACREEE as well as in the implementation of its technical program.

project number 2714-01/2013
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.
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