1. Harnessing Energy for Poverty Reduction
GVEP Progress and Challenges Ahead
Abeeku Brew-Hammond
Manager, GVEP Technical Secretariat
World Bank Energy Week, Washington DC, March 2006

2. GVEP Overview
Vision: a world in which access to energy services is provided for the unserved or underserved in a manner that enhances economic and social development, and reduces poverty.
Objectives
Catalyze country commitments to energy-poverty reduction
Improve communications among investors, suppliers & users
Facilitate policy and regulatory frameworks for scale-up
Serve as a marketplace for lessons learned, best practices
Create and maintain effective coordination mechanisms
5 Objectives and they are all about scaling up energy services

3. GVEP Value Added Amplifying and conveying the energy access message
Demonstrating and brokering solutions
Creating a space for dialogue and converting talk into action

4. Multiple Stakeholders
National Government
Municipal/Local Government
Non-Government Organisations
Community-based Organisations
Academia
Small/Medium Enterprises
Large Companies/ Utilities
Major Financial Institutions/ Donors
Local / Micro Finance Institutions
Media
etc

5. Consolidating and Scaling Up Country Actions with Targetted Support Services & Multiple Actors
Poverty Reduction
and other
Development Goals
Finance
Facilitation
Capacity
Development
Country
Actions
Activities were identified after extensive consultations and a survey involving over 2000 people
Knowledge
Management
Results
Monitoring

6. GVEP Country Actions National Action Plans
Brazil, Cameroon, Guatemala (Completed)
Ghana, Honduras, Indonesia, Kenya, etc (In progress)
Reorientation of Existing Access Programmes
Brazil, Senegal, South Africa
GAPfund/Small-Scale Energy Projects
Demonstrate innovative approaches to energy services for the poor (151 proposals received from 41 countries)

7. GVEP Partnership Base
Challenge Ahead: Mobilising partners from other stakeholder groups (particularly private sector/ inudstry)