Nairobi, August 13, 2014 - A training workshop on the Development of an Action Agenda and Investment Prospectus for Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) in Africa has begun yesterday and will end on Friday, August 15.

SE4ALL is an initiative launched by the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon in September 2011, focusing on three goals: (1) Ensuring universal access to modern energy services; (2) Doubling the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency; and (3) Doubling the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix by 2030.

Africa has taken the lead in responding to the Initiative with 44 African countries out of 84 globally having opted in. Member States are required to set up mechanisms to make universal access to durable modern energy services a priority.

The Nairobi workshop marks the beginning of a series of trainings that NEPAD will conduct in several African Countries.

The workshop carried out by NEPAD and BizClim provides technical assistance to Kenya to develop its own action agenda and investment prospectus of SE4ALL.

Participants have been drawn from the pool of the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum and relevant stakeholders in the energy sector.

Implementation of the training workshop builds on the outcomes of consultations that were held with the private sectors, civil society and government officials last June jointly organised by NEPAD and the United Nations Development programme (UNDP).

The workshop seeks to achieve the following objects: (1) Share knowledge on the Action Agenda (AA) and Investment Prospectors (IP), requirements and content. (2) Give stakeholders an opportunity to familiarise themselves with the developmental process of AA and IP through a process of learning by doing; (3) Apply the reforms identified in the gap analysis and create an conducive environment for investment and (4); identify high priority energy projects that will enable Kenya to realise its set targets under Energy Access, Renewable Energy and Energy Access by 2030. 

The Head of Energy programmes at the NEPAD Agency, Professor Mosad Elmissiry says that the expectation is that by the end of the workshop, the government with all stakeholders will develop and adopt a framework for the Action Agenda and Investment Prospectus. 

“The Action Agenda and Investment Prospectus can further be developed to have full action documents outlining the Government of Kenya’s set targets of achieving the objectives of SE4ALL by 2030 where well defined profiles of high priority energy projects under energy access, renewable energy and energy efficiency which will make modern energy resources available, affordable and accessible to the bulk of the Kenyan population,” said Professor Elmissiry.