pro-poor public-private-partnerships: regional project
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Pro-Poor Public-Private-Partnerships: Regional Project Overview and Status
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMISSION FOR ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
Regional Training Workshop on
Widening Access to Energy Services through Pro-Poor Public-Private Partnerships
25-27 September 2013, UNCC, Bangkok, Thailand
Hongpeng LiuEnergy Security and Water Resources Section
Environment and Development Division
OVERVIEWPro-Poor Public-Private Partnerships
Project Goal
• Empower Rural Agriculture Communities Towards a Higher Standard of Living through better access to energy services by using pro-poor public-private partnerships, and international carbon markets
Key ConsiderationsPro-Poor
• Target rural agriculture-communities who request energy services for productive uses
• Focus on energy for income generating activities
Public-Private
• Encourage grassroots entrepreneurship
• Project selection criteria broad enough to invite participation from a variety of entrepreneurs
• Encourage community ownership
Partnerships
• Communities: Early engagement with community stakeholders
• NGOs: Role of Facilitation
• Government: Establish cross-linkages with efforts of various government agencies
Key Considerations
Simplicity
• Project inspires government to strengthen policy and legal framework to support such site-specific partnerships
Market Development
• Project inspires private sector to invest based on profit motive and, to replicate the business model elsewhere
Transforms Lives
• Project inspires rural communities to identify 5P champions to spread national awareness
Project Countries
South-South-
Cooperation
Lao PDR
Indonesia
ChinaBangladesh
Nepal
ONGOING ACTIVITIESPro-Poor Public-Private Partnerships
Project Status
Develop Policy Options…
National Pilot Projects…
Capacity Development
Letters of Agreement
with National Partners
Regional Policy Studies
(Energy Access and
5Ps)
Pilot Projects | Nepal & Lao PDR
•Kathmandu Inception Workshop | 09 Oct 2012
•Vientiane Inception Workshop | 12 Nov 2012
Pro-Poor Public-Private-Partnerships: Regional Project Overview and Status
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMISSION FOR ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
Regional Training Workshop on
Widening Access to Energy Services through Pro-Poor Public-Private Partnerships
25-27 September 2013, UNCC, Bangkok, Thailand
Hongpeng LiuEnergy Security and Water Resources Section
Environment and Development Division