Meetings
This third session of UN Energy/Africa was held in conjunction
with the African
Regional Implementation Meeting (ARIM) for the preparation
of the 14th session of the UN
Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-14) . This
third session of UN Energy/Africa included a joint session
with UN Energy (global) and a separate session of UN
Energy/Africa.
UN Energy (global) held a separate meeting on October 24,
UN Energy and UN Energy/Africa held the joint session on October
25 (see
report of the joint meeting), and UN Energy/Africa had
a separate meeting on October 27 (see
report of the meeting ).
| No |
4 |
| Activity Statement |
Participate to UNE Meeting |
| Date |
December 12, 2004 - December
14, 2004 |
| Venue |
Noordwijk |
| Objectives |
To present UNEA work plan
to UNE Discuss linkage between global energy issues and
regional |
| Specific
activities |
· Present
UNEA work programme and activities
· Contribute to UNE work programme |
| Outcomes |
· UNEA TOR accepted
and welcomed by UNE
· Ways to create linkage discussed |
| Status |
Regular exchanges recommended |
| Follow-up |
UNEA to provide short document
of summary of current activities to UNEA |
| Participants |
UNE, UNEA representative |
| Comments |
ECA could not attend this
meeting because lack of travel funds |
| No |
3 |
| Activity Statement |
UNEA Meeting |
| Date |
November/4/2004 |
| Venue |
Addis-Ababa |
| Objectives |
To review and adopt the
work programme |
| Specific
activities |
· Review
progress in the collaboration of agencies;
· discuss and adopt the work programme on the basis
of concept notes prepared by lead agencies;
· discuss any other relevant collaboration matters |
| Outcomes |
·The collaboration
in energy is making good progress
· Some activities (UNDP/GEF, UNEP/ECA) have started
· 10 Concept notes of projects of the work plan were
presented and discussed
· Work plan was adopted |
| Status |
|
| Follow-up |
Promote UNEA with other
UN-agencies not represented yet, Seek involvement of non-UN
organizations and participation AU/NEPAD for the next
meetings |
| Participants |
UNECA, UNIDO, UNEP, UNDP,
UN-Habitat, FAO and UNESCO |
| Comments |
See meeting report for details |
| No |
2 |
| Activity Statement |
UNEA Meeting |
| Date |
July/8/2004 |
| Venue |
Addis-Ababa |
| Objectives |
Review of activities of
UN-agencies in the sector of energy, and discuss the draft
work program for the collaboration. |
| Specific
activities |
· UN-agencies
to present their activities in the sector of energy
· discuss the draft work program for the collaboration |
| Outcomes |
· Overview of UN agencies
work in Energy in Africa presented
· Work program revised |
| Status |
|
| Follow-up |
Agencies to prepare project
concept notes for activity in the work program |
| Participants |
UNECA, UNIDO, UNEP, UNDP,
and UN-Habitat |
| Comments |
See meeting report for details |
| No
|
1 |
| Activity
Statement |
UNEA Launching Meeting |
| Date |
May/27/2004 |
| Venue |
Addis-Ababa |
| Objectives |
To establish the UN energy
collaborative arrangement's Terms of Reference and UN
Support to NEPAD. |
| Specific
activities |
Define
· Membership criteria;
· Modalities of coordination/interaction within the
mechanism and collectively with non-UN stakeholders;
· Frequency, duration, venue of meetings;
· Reporting/relationship to inter-governmental bodies,
UN-Energy.
· Chairmanship Meeting |
| Outcomes |
· Created UN-Energy/Africa
and adopted its terms of reference.
· It requested UNIDO to chair UNEnergy/Africa and
invited UNEP to serve as Vice Chair
· requested UNECA to serve as a secretariat,
· UNEnergy/Africa will serve as the UN Sub-cluster
on energy within the NEPAD Infrastructure Cluster. |
| Status |
|
| Follow-up |
Draft a Work Program for
UNEA |
| Participants |
UNECA, UNIDO, UNEP, UNDP,
and UN-Habitat |
| Comments |
See meeting report for details |
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Infrastructure Development