Global Village Energy Partnership
Fact Sheet
U.S. Agency for International Development
April 11, 2007
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FEATURED RESULT: "Through USG support for the Global Village Energy Partnership and other programs from 2002-2006, 19.1 million people have received increased access to modern energy services." |
Purpose of Initiative: The Global Village Energy Partnership (GVEP) will increase access to modern and affordable energy services in areas either not served or under-served by current energy delivery systems. GVEP is one of three programs under The Clean Energy Initiative (CEI): Powering Sustainable Development from Village to Metropolis, launched at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) held in Johannesburg in August 2002 (USG lead is USAID).
Statement of Principles: By participating in GVEP, partners commit to:
- Support the goal to increase and facilitate access to modern energy service while improving economic and social development, the quality of life and services, and reducing poverty.
- Promote the use of environmentally sound technology options in a range of rural, peri-urban, and urban areas where energy access is lacking and/or in sectors where the provision of energy services is not presently sustainable (e.g., agriculture, education, health, water, telecommunications, infrastructure, rural development, and small business).
- Combine, as appropriate, increased use of renewable energy resources, more efficient production and use of energy, and greater reliance on advanced energy technologies (including cleaner fossil fuel technologies), with the sustainable use of traditional energy resources.
- Facilitate policy and market regulatory frameworks that create the economic, social, and institutional conditions to improve access to reliable, affordable, economically viable, and socially and environmentally acceptable energy services.
- Enhance human and institutional capacity in the delivery of energy services.
- Engage in the Partnership without discrimination with respect to race, religion, or gender.
- Ensure that Partnership activities are effectively integrated and coordinated with related activities at the local, national, regional or global levels, including programs implemented by partner organizations, host country governments, and other partnerships.
- Establish and support implementation of work-plans for activities assisted by the Partnership.
Partners: GVEP partners include more than 1,400 organizations (government, private sector, and civil society) and 5,000 individuals representing over 90 countries that have committed to the Partnership's Statement of Principles, thereby becoming GVEP partners. The partner breakdown includes 44% from NGOs, 31% from the private sector, 11% from bilateral and developing country governments, 7% consultants, 3% from multilateral organizations, and 4% other. For a complete listing of partners, please visit the GVEP website at www.gvep.org.
Partnership Targets: The new Business Plan launched in 2006 established partnership targets including setting up three Regional Energy Access Funds for SMEs --two in Africa and one in Asia--as well as a Regional office in Latin America. The targets per fund will be:
Enterprises financed/assisted if funds fully dispersed by 2009 & 2012:
- By 2009: 2,000 enterprises
- By 2012: 7,000 enterprises
Direct and indirect beneficiaries (owners, employees, suppliers, customers - calculated on an annual basis over 2-3 years) if funds fully dispersed and entities still in operation after three years:
- By 2009: 1,000,000
- By 2012: 4,500,000
Additionally, GVEP will continue policy activities in 20 countries, trying to increase investments and activities related to modern energy-for-poverty reduction.
Progress Toward Targets: Since its inception in 2002, GVEP has initiated National Action Plans and energy-poverty program development in 20 countries. These include Latin America (Bolivia, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Peru); Africa (Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia); and Asia (India, Philippines and Sri Lanka). GVEP has developed training programs in energy services delivery for entrepreneurs, microfinance organizations and financial institution officers. Twenty GAPfund projects have been funded and will be implemented in 2007. A list of these projects is available on the website. A review of GVEP activities since 2003 has been carried out and will be published in early 2007 on the GVEP website and will include progress, plans, and results.
Next Steps: GVEP has now created a UK-based charity, GVEP International, which is working to roll out its 2006 Business Plan and implement the planned energy access funds for SMEs. Feasibility studies will be completed in 2007 and the first energy access fund established in Africa at the beginning of 2008. A Regional Coordinator will be appointed for Latin America in 2007 and activities with private sector partners will be carried out in India.
Resources: USAID's GVEP related activities in fiscal year 2003 - 2006 totaled $122 million with an estimated 19.1 million beneficiaries receiving new or improved access to modern energy services. Other bilateral institutions have provided direct contributions totaling approximately $12 million to the GVEP Technical Secretariat. Additionally, GVEP is leading to investments in energy-poverty reduction activities by the World Bank and other regional banks in excess of $770 million of new loans. In 2006, the Russian, UK, and Dutch Governments committed $30 million, $8 million, and $5 million, respectively, to the new GVEP Business Plan.
USG Primary Point of Contact: Gordon Weynand, U.S. Agency for International Development (Phone: 202-712-1864; email: goweynand@usaid.gov).
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