| Following the
creation on April 14-15, 2004 in Rome of UN-Energy
, African
Energy Ministers gathered in a meeting co-organized
by UNEP, ECA and the African Union on May 8, 2004
in Nairobi, adopted a recommendation for the creation
of UN-Energy/Africa. UN-Energy/Africa should along
the line of UN-Water/Africa be a regional collaborative
framework with the objective to promote more efficient,
coherent and coordinated actions of UN and non-UN
organizations working in Africa on the issues
of energy for development.
On May 27, 2004 responding to the recommendation
of the African energy Ministers, five UN agencies
(UNECA, UNIDO, UNEP, UNDP, and UN-Habitat) gathered
in the context of the African Regional Consultations
Mechanism, convened by UNECA, agreed to the creation
of UN-Energy/Africa. UN Energy/Africa is a be
a subsidiary of UN-Energy so as to insure a linkage
between global and regional energy issues and
serves as the UN agencies sub-cluster on energy
in the framework of the Regional Consultations
in support of NEPAD. UN agencies requested UNIDO,
UNEP and ECA to assume the function of chair,
vice-chair and secretariat respectively. |
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Most recent Activities
Making Africa’s Power Sector Sustainable
ECA in partnership with UNEP carried out an in-depth analysis
of the economic, social and environmental impacts of power
sector reforms in Africa. The study titled “Making Africa’s
Power sector Sustainable” also maps the way forward
for making Africa’s power sector more sustainable with
regards to social and environmental objectives. It covered
14 countries in various depths, and was completed in Dec.
2005. It is to be published in early 2006.
The findings of the above-mentioned study were presented
during a high-level multi-stakeholders policy dialogue forum,
co-organized by ECA, UNEP and UNDESA. High-level decision-makers
and senior officials from power sector ministry/departments,
regulatory bodies and utilities from 19 countries (Burundi,
Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya,
Lesotho, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal,
Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe), and
representatives from 9 regional and international organizations
(African Union Commission, ECOWAS, SADC, COMESA, IEPF, AFREPREN,
UNDESA, UNEP, and ECA) participated in the forum. The Forum
adopted a policy summary on “Making the Africa’s
Power Sector Reform Sustainable”, and a “Policy
statement on power sector reform in Africa ” to
be presented at CSD-14.
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Infrastructure Development