• The Global Village Energy Partnership will increase access to modern and affordable energy services in areas either not served or under-served by current energy delivery systems. (USG lead: USAID)

• Efficient Energy for Sustainable Development will improve the productivity and efficiency of energy systems, while reducing waste and pollution, saving money, improving reliability through more energy efficient processes, and production modernization. (USG lead: DOE)

• The Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles will reduce vehicular air pollution in developing countries through the promotion of clean transportation fuels (e.g. unleaded gasoline, low sulfur fuels), and vehicles. (USG lead: EPA)

• The Partnership for Clean Indoor Air will promote healthier indoor cooking and heating practices to reduce the estimated 1.6 million annual, preventable deaths associated with breathing indoor air pollution from burning traditional biomass fuels and coal indoors for home cooking and heating. (USG lead: EPA)

Partners
The Global Village Energy Partnership (GVEP): As of February 2005, more than 574 organizations (government, private sector, and civil society) have committed to the Partnership's Statement of Principles, thereby becoming GVEP partners. The partner breakdown includes 42% from NGOs, 30% from the private sector, 10% from bilateral and developing country governments, 8% consultants and 3% multilateral organizations. The GVEP website, www.gvep.org offers a complete listing of partners.

Efficient Energy for Sustainable Development (EESD): More than 70 organizations (government, industry, and civil society) have committed to the partnership for Efficient Energy for Sustainable Development. The partner breakdown includes 37 from the private sector, 17 from NGOs, 8 from bilateral and developing country governments, and 9 multilateral organizations. The EESD website, www.pi.energy.gov/clean_energy_initiative offers a complete listing of partners.

Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles (PCFV): As of November, 2004, 69 organizations -- including 20 from government, 24 from industry, and 22 from civil society – have committed to the Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles. A complete list of partners can be found at www.unep.org/pcfv/main/main.htm.

Partnership for Clean Indoor Air (PCIA): As of April 2005, the Partnership has grown to more than 95 organizations working together to improve health, livelihood, and quality of life by reducing exposure to indoor air pollution from household energy use -- 17 from government, 71from NGOs and industry, and 7 multilateral organizations. A complete list of partners can be found at www.PCIAonline.org.

Partnership Targets
The Global Village Energy Partnership: Targets established for the 10-year Partnership, to be accomplished by the year 2014, include over 30 countries with a National Action Plan for energy-poverty programs; over 400 million additional peoplewith access to modern energy services; and over 50,000 communities serviced with electricity.

Efficient Energy for Sustainable Development: The EESD partnership seeks to achieve its objectives through activities along four tracks: promoting public leadership through community partnerships; facilitating both locally managed financial programs to attract affordable and long-term financing and the "scaling up" of efficiency projects; building host country capacity to access and adopt cleaner and more efficient technologies; and designing performance metrics and assessment methods. The partnership aims to achieve a 20% energy intensity reduction in up to 20 host countries over 10 years; establish U.S. community partnerships in up to 8 countries; and facilitate government energy management plans saving at least 20% of central budget overhead costs in up to 10 countries.

The Partnership for Clean Indoor Air is bringing together governments, industry, and non-governmental organizations to increase the use of affordable, reliable, clean, efficient, and safe home cooking and heating practices. The Partnership aims to reduce the mortality related to indoor air pollution in targeted areas by 50%. The Partnership is mobilizing the resources and expertise of Partners to achieve its’ mission by focusing on four priority areas: addressing social and cultural factors through public awareness and education campaigns; developing local markets and financing mechanisms for improved cooking alternatives; improving the design and performance of cooking and heating technologies; and monitoring the indoor air pollution, health and environmental impact of interventions.

The Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles is a global partnership focused on eliminating lead in gasoline worldwide and reducing sulfur in gasoline and diesel fuels, along with support for the development and adoption of cleaner vehicle requirements.

Progress Toward Targets
The U.S. Government is working with other governments, international financial institutions, industry and NGO partners to implement Clean Energy Initiative activities in a range of countries over the next calendar year. These activities will focus on increased access to modern energy services, energy efficiency, cleaner fuels and improved air quality. The U.S. Government has formed an interagency working group (including the Department of State, USAID, DOE, and EPA) that is coordinating its efforts with U.S. missions and embassies worldwide to identify appropriate development activities to be implemented in the coming year.

The Global Village Energy Partnership: Since its inception in 2002, GVEP has initiated National Action Plans and energy-poverty program development in 19 countries. These include Latin America (Bolivia, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico); 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. A global risk mitigation facility is in development to leverage local financial capital markets and offer pre-investment support to developing country bankers to increase their investment in energy access projects. GVEP is working towards re-targeting host country government, USAID, World Bank and other donor funding from a focus on purely rural electrification programs to a focus on stakeholder-driven energy programs dealing with broader energy-poverty and modern energy service delivery issues in at least 10 countries.

Efficient Energy for Sustainable Development: The partnership sponsored the "Building Pathways of Progress" forum held in Washington, DC on November 10, 2003. This event showcased projects that are underway and sought to build partnerships by focusing on financing, peer-to-peer leadership and technology diffusion. Featured projects included a pooled financing mechanism being developed to aggregate energy efficiency projects in Mexico, Poland and the Philippines; successful partnerships in Uganda and India that are working with communities to develop solar water pumps and clean engine auto-rickshaws respectively; and the development of a "Sustainable Community Development" proposal with the Gas Technology Institute. APEC approved an EESD proposal to give priority to the financing of clean and more efficient energy technologies as part of its Energy Security Initiative Action Plan.

The Partnership for Clean Indoor Air The Partnership has strengthened relationships and leveraged resources by organizing capacity building workshops, and seminars and country network roundtables to raise awareness and generate action. Partners are implementing pilot projects to identify effective approaches to reduce people’s exposure to indoor air pollution. In addition, the Partnership has developed tools and resources such as, design and performance guidance for cooking and heating practices and a catalog of intervention evaluation methods.

The Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles: The partnership is assisting African countries to develop and implement lead phase-out action plans, and is providing technical assistance on public outreach, blood lead testing and monitoring, and policy options for refinery modifications. Since the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, 7 African countries have phased lead out of gasoline, affecting many millions of people, and many other countries have committed to fully phase out lead by December, 2005. The Partnership is also sponsoring regional workshops, designed to help countries and regions toward clean fuel and vehicle options. In Mexico, Chile, Thailand, and China, the partnership has begun projects to demonstrate the benefits of retrofitting city buses with new emission control technologies and bringing in low-sulfur fuel. The partnership has issued a report on the impact of unleaded gasoline on older vehicles (valve seat recession), and is finishing other reports on Octane Requirements, and Sulfur and its Impacts on Emissions.

Next Steps
The Global Village Energy Partnership: The partnership will finalize National Action Plans, secure funding and move to implementation in 20 target countries, implement entrepreneur, microfinance and financial institution training, and launch a risk mitigation facility to leverage millions of dollars of investment in energy-poverty investments in developing countries and a GVEP Actions Program (GAP) Fund to support upstream project development activities of GVEP partners.

Efficient Energy for Sustainable Development: The partnership is developing a "Sustainable Community Development" proposal to enhance peer-to-peer alliances and to serve as an umbrella covering the 4 tracks of the partnership’s activities. Other activities include coordinating potential U.S. participation in the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) African Rift Valley Geothermal Development Facility (ARGeo), providing market development models to enhance bio-diesel production in Brazil and eco-industrial economic development projects for fossil and non-fossil energy sources in Africa.

The Partnership for Clean Indoor Air: As the pilot projects demonstrate results, the Partnership will target the diffusion of successful, replicable models on a broader scale, focusing on regional approaches to adoption. Performance will be evaluated, approaches (outreach programs, social marketing, business models and financing mechanisms, technology design and performance, exposure protocols) refined, and longer-term implementation plans identified. A priority is long-term sustainability through local market transformation. The Partnership will also support the direct exchange within regions of experiences among stove users, researchers, entrepreneurs, project implementers, and program directors.

The Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles: In 2005,, in Africa, the Partnership will facilitate the total phase out of lead in additional countries, will hold national-level workshops in Mozambique, Gambia, Rwanda, Togo, Uganda, Zambia and Somalia, and will begin projects to promote the use of catalytic converters for vehicles in Africa. The Partnership will expand its clean fuels activities to the Middle East, Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, and Latin America. The Partnership will accelerate lead phase-out activities in Indonesia, the 4^th largest country in the world. We will expand our diesel retrofit projects to India and one other country, and replicate current projects with other fleets, and in other cities. The Partnership will publish documents on sulfur and its effect on emissions and on octane requirements.

Calendar of Events:

• 3^rd Global Partnership Meeting, December 2 & 3, 2004, Delhi, India
• 3^rd Asia Petroleum Technology Symposium, March, 2005, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• Low-sulfur fuel and diesel retrofit workshop, Beijing, China, March, 2005
• Clean Fuels Workshop in Central and Eastern Europe, June, 2005, Budapest, Hungary

Resources
The U.S. launched the Clean Energy Initiative at the World Summit on Sustainable Development with a commitment of $42 million. U.S. funds will leverage up to $400 million in additional resources from other partners, over the next several years.

The Global Village Energy Partnership: USAID’s GVEP related activities in fiscal year 2003 and 2004 totaled $55 million with an estimated 10.2 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.

Efficient Energy for Sustainable Development: Through the Department of Energy’s program offices and laboratories, the EESD program leverages resources and expertise to improve efficient energy generation and use. To date the United States Government has committed $1.4 million and these funds leveraged approximately $1.5 million from partners and other sources.

The Partnership for Clean Indoor Air: The United States Government has contributed $2.0 million which has leveraged approximately $6 million of new investments from other partners, The Partnership is also creating new synergies among Partners whose investments, in all likelihood, exceed $20 million annually.

The Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles: To date, the U.S. has contributed roughly $2.0 million to the partnership, while sixty-eight partner organizations have offered both financial and in-kind resources, including roughly $3 million in direct contributions, and 4 full-time and several part-time staff. The partnership’s work has leveraged commitments in countries to address the need for cleaner fuels through refinery investments – these commitments that are worth hundreds of millions of dollars or more.

U.S. Primary Points of Contact

• Agency for International Development: Gordon Weynand (Telephone: 202/712-4169; E-mail: goweynand@usaid.gov)
• Department of State: Griffin Thompson (Phone: 202-647-1139; E-mail: thompsongm@state.gov)
• Department of Energy: Larisa Dobriansky (Phone: 202/586-1524; E-mail: larisa.dobriansky@hq.doe.gov)
• Environmental Protection Agency:
  • Partnership for Clean Indoor Air: Brenda Doroski (Phone: 202/343-9764, E-Mail: doroksi.Brenda@epa.gov) and John Mitchell (Phone: 202/343-9031; E-Mail: mitchell.john@epa.gov)
  • Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles: Jane Metcalfe (Phone: 202/564-6451; E-mail: Metcalfe.jane@epa.gov) and Sue Stendebach (Phone: 202/343-9532; E-Mail: stendebach.sue@epa.gov)