July,
2019 - Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania
NEW
PROJECT in East Africa: EASE-CA INFORSE-East Africa NGO Cooperation
Project Start
Title of Project: East African Civil Society for Sustainable
Energy & Climate Action
Period: July 2019- July 2022 Read more: EASE-CA Project |
December
3-14, 2018
INFORSE
- ENDA - INSEDA at UNFCCC COP24,
Katowice, Poland
More: Side
Event and Exhibition
-
Policy Brief INFORSE East Africa for COP24 (pdf)
- Policy
Brief - Guideline social effects of large-scale renewables; West
Africa (pdf)
Read: Short
Review: What was decided at COP24 (pdf)
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• May
21-24, 2018
Nairobi, Kenya
PIPA Project Meeting, INFORSE East Africa
& INFORSE Coordinator's Meeting |
November
6-17, 2017
UNFCCC COP23, Bonn, Germany
Side Event, and Exhibition
with INFORSE-East Africa participation
Read more: PIPA Project
and
INFORSE
at COP23 |
May
8, 2017
Launch of 4 Publications: PIPA Baseline Studies
National: Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda.
Regional: East Africa
Download the Publications from: PIPA Project |
2017-2018
New
Project in East Africa:
Promoting the Implementation of the Paris Agreement in East Africa (PIPA)
In the Project, INFORSE is cooperating with TaTEDO in Tanzania,
Suswatch Kenya, and Uganda Coalition for Sustainable Development (UCSD)
and SustainableEnergy in Denmark (project leader).
Read more: PIPA
Project |
2016 -2018
New
Project in West Africa:
Accelerating Implementation of Regional Policies on Clean Energy (ACE)
In the Project, INFORSE is cooperating with ENDA (INFORSE
cordinator) in Senegal, CEAS in Burkina Faso, MFC in Mali, JVE in Benin,
OPED in Togo, AFHON in Cote d’Ivoire, CODDAE in Niger, and SustainableEnergy
(in Denmark, project leader).
Read more: ACE Project |
2014-2016:
Launch Project: Low Carbon Strategies - NGO
Networks' Cooperation Project in East & West Africa,
South Asia and Latin America: Promoting
Pro-Poor Low-Carbon Development Strategies |
2014:
4 June 2014
Launch of Publication: "Combining Energy Access and Climate Protection"
UN Climate Change COP Pre-Conference to COP19,
Bonn Germany
- How energy can be provided sustainably, reducing emissions and
increasing wellbeing
Cases in Asia and Africa.
Compiled by the INFORSE members.
The Draft was Launched
at UNFCCC
COP19 in Poland, 2013.
Read: Leaflet
with Frontpage and Contents. (pdf, 2-page)
Download the full text as pdf from Publication (from
June 2014).
|
2014: News
from INFORSE West Africa
May 2014 -Togo
Regional NGO Meeting and INFORSE-West Africa Regional Meeting in Togo.
Contact: INFORSE-West Africa c/o ENDA-Energy. |
2013:
November 2013: INFORSE-Africa members were represented
at UNFCCC COP 19, 2013
Representatives of ENDA and Mali Folkecenter were speakers at the INFORSE Side Event.
Read more at: INFORSE-Africa at the UN.
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2013:
News from INFORSE - West Africa
- 17-21 April 2013: "Déclaration of Conakry" from the Réseau Climat Développement Annual Meeting. 20 participants from 17 countries, including INFORSE members like ENDA and Mali Folkecenter.
- 4-18 June 2013: " Environmental Pact" by the Civil Society in Mali Launched in a Forum oranised by the Ministry. It was drafted Mali-Folkecenter in collaboration with the Malian Civil society network on climate chang since 2012.
- 6 February 2013: Workshop on Sustainable Biofuels in Mali organised by Mali Folkecenter.
- Capacity building and Inception meeting of the project on Vulnerability Assessment and Integration of Climate Change into Local Development Plans of two districts in Dakar and Fatick in Senegal.
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2013:
News from INFORSE - East Africa:
- October 2013: INFORSE Regional Meeting
in East Africa
|
2013 November 18
Launch of Publication: "Combining Energy Access and Climate Protection"
- How energy can be provided with sustainable energy, reducing emissions and increasing wellbeing"
Cases in Asia and Africa
Compiled by the INFORSE members.
Draft Launched at UNFCCC COP19.
Read Contents (1 page pdf)
Final Verson will be Online in January 2014 |
2012 Publication Energy Access Cases
(Online) |
2011
- 2012:
News from INFORSE - East Africa
January 2012: INFORSE-East African NGO Meeting
on Financing Renewable Energy, Kampala, Uganda.
October 2011: East African NGOs Meeting on Energy
25 August 2011: INFORSE National NGO Meeting, Kampala, Uganda |
2011
- 2012:
News from INFORSE - West Africa
January 19, 2012: INFORSE-West Afica Meeting in Niamey
|
2009
December:
INFORSE-Africa members participated at UNFCCC COP15 as NGO observers. Representatives of members made presentations at the side events, and made several contacts at the INFORSE information booths. Read proceedings and see pictures at: INFORSE
at COP15
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2009
April:
INFORSE-members Cooperation Project in Uganda:
Cooperation among: JEEP (Joint Energy and Environment Projects) in Uganda
Nordic Folkecenter for Renewable Energy in Denmark, and the Mali Folkecenter
in 2007-09.
Download: Sustainable Energy
News 64 pdf 1.6 MB file (article is on page 10.)
More: JEEP, and Nordic
Folkecenter.
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2009
January:
Publication of INFORSE-East Africa Cooperation
Sustainable Energy Solutions in East Africa
The report
focuses on the framework required if small-scale sustainable energy projects
are to succeed in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania. The report discusses each country’s
energy situation together with country-specific experiences and recommendations.
Afterwards, general experiences and recommendations are summarized.
Efforts of the NGOs involved have been coordinated within the framework of
the East African coordination node of INFORSE (CDI, Uganda).
Edited by Timothy
Byakola, Climate and Development Initiatives (CDI) & INFORSE
East Africa, Uganda; Oscar Lema, Tanzania Traditional Energy
Development and Environment Organisation (TaTEDO); and Torhildur
Kristjansdottir and John Lineikro, Norges Naturvernforbund
(FoE Norway).
Pdf, 542 kB, 42 p., January, 2009.
- Download Publication from: FoE-Norway
- More information: TaTEDO in Tanzania, CDI in
Uganda,and FoE Norway .
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2008 December
INFORSE
participated as NGO observer at the UNFCCC COP14, December 1-12, 2008.
INFORSE also had an exhibition stall and a side event
From the INFORSE Africa Coordinators participated: ENDA (Senegal) and Earthlife
Africa (South Africa). ENDA also participated with its own exhibition stall.
Read more on the INFORSE participation at the conference at COP14
|
2008-2009
German
Volunteers to Africa
If your organisation
in Africa, would like to host a young volunteer from Germany,
please read the German INFORSE member Artefact's call: Solivol. |
2008
July
-
Play to electricity in Namibia
Article
in Sustainable Energy News (SEN) issue 61. See at page 9 on SEN
# 61. |
Articles from 2004: |
2004:
Article: No smoke while the sun shines this Earth Day (pdf
file)
By Richard Worthington, Coordinator of the Sustainable Energy and Climate Change
Partnership, a project of Earthlife Africa Johannesburg
(Opinion Piece that appeared in Business Day and This Day, 22 April 2004) |
2004:
Article: Renewable Energy Can also get South Africa working
(PDF file)
By Claire Taylor, Information Coordinator, Sustainable Energy and Climate Change
Partnership, a project of Earthlife Africa, Johannesburg and member of the Energy
Caucus |
See
more in Sustainable Energy News |