Report on "Energy for sustainable development" in Africa

Abstract

This paper focuses on Report on "Energy for sustainable development" in Africa. The issue of accessibility to modern energy was linked to poverty alleviation efforts in some cases, but unfortunately not always. The need for more generation capacity has been recognized; however, efforts to solve the problem stumble over chronic lack of public funding and little interest of investors and financial institutions in the African energy market, mainly due numerous disincentive measures built into national institutional, policy, legal and regulatory frameworks.