Personalentsendung an das ECOWAS Energiezentrum ECREEE



Contract partner: ECREEE - ECOWAS Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Country: Subsahara-Afrika, regional/länderübergreifend Funding amount: € 600.000,00 Project start: 01.07.2013 End: 31.07.2017

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Overall goal


In 2009, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in cooperation with the governments of Austria and Spain and the UNIDO established the Regional Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ECREEE). ECREEE is a specialized ECOWAS agency with a public mandate to promote renewable energy and energy efficiency markets on regional and national level in West Africa.

ECREEE represents a regional policy response to the rising energy security concerns, continued lack of access to energy services and the need for climate change mitigation. The Centre creates an important link between international climate, energy and development cooperation policy and has the potential to become a key entry point for the mobilization of private sector and international funding to address the energy challenges facing the region and mitigate climate change effects.

The Austrian Development Cooperation (ADC) supported the establishment of ECREEE since its beginning with the creation of a secretariat in Cape Verde and a network of National Focal Institutions in all 15 ECOWAS member states. ADC will continue to support ECREEE with a core funding to its Business Plan 2011-2016 and the secondment of a technical assistant to ECREEE’s secretariat in Cape Verde. The present contract determines the terms and conditions for the provision of Austrian expertise to the Centre.

project number 2599-01/2013
source of funding OEZA
sector Energiegewinnung, -Verteilung und -Effizienz, allgemein
tied
modality
marker
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    • 1= policy is a significant objective of the activity
    • 2= policy is the principal objective of the activity
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    • 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.
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  • 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.