Better coordination, key to secure electricity for all in 2030 - ECA

Abstract

Despite Africa’s great progress and successes in the energy sector, current policies and commitments are not strong enough for a fast development and transformation of the region’s energy sector, said Lilia Hachem Naas, Director of the ECA Office for North Africa to African Ministers of on 23 March in Nouakchott. Ministers of energy, experts and international and African organization representatives took part in the First Ordinary Session of the AU Specialized Technical Sub-Committee on Transport, Transcontinental and Interregional Infrastructure, Energy and Tourism (STCTTIIET). For three days, they examined the recommendations of the Lomé (March 2017) and Energy Sub-Committee (2017-2019) action plans. Participants also discussed information sharing and coordination around initiatives taken by stakeholders throughout Africa in areas such as energy technologies, policies, regulations and infrastructure development. The subcommittee on energy also discussed the setup of a monitoring and evaluation system to follow-up on the implementation of the partners’ action plans on energy. ECA worked with the International Hydropower Association on the set up of a template that will assess the energy and non-energy benefits of all sizes of hydropower projects, and with the Sustainable Energy for ALL team (SE4all) to coordinate data collection on biomass use, data analysis and dissemination.