Preparatory support for the establishment of the Caribbean Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (CCREEE)



Contract partner: UNIDO - United Nations Industrial Development Organization Country: Nord- und Mittelamerika, regional/länderübergreifend Funding amount: € 56.500,00 Project start: 15.12.2013 End: 30.04.2015

Short Description:

Overall goal


The project follows-up on an official request of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) SIDS-DOCK initiative to the UNIDO Director General to support the Caribbean countries in the establishment of the Caribbean Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (CCREEE).


The increased use of renewable energy and energy efficiency is an effective tool to reduce the dependence on fossil fuel imports and to redirect scarce resources to sectors such as health, education and economic development. CCREEE will be established in close cooperation with the SIDS-DOCK Initiative, the Energy Unit of the CARICOM Secretariat and other international and local partners. It will aim at the creation of an enabling environment for renewable energy and energy efficiency markets and investments by mitigating existing barriers.


The centre will work through a network of national focal institutions among the islands and execute regional activities in the areas of investment and business promotion, capacity and policy development, as well as knowledge management and awareness raising. The Centre will create the needed capacity to implement the sustainable energy targets of the CARICOM Energy Policy and the Caribbean Sustainable Energy Roadmap and Strategy (C-SERMS).


With this first contract ADC contributes to the preparatory phase which has as expected outcome a common agreement on the institutional and technical design, the implementation schedule and financing modalities for CCREEE.


Activities include the preparation of a concept note; various consultative meetings with regional organizations, donor partners and other key stakeholders; creation of the project document; and the organization of validation workshops.


Finally, a side event will be organized at the margins of the Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States (1 to 4 September 2014 in Samoa).

project number 2734-00/2013
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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