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Call for Proposals for Gender-responsive Clean Energy Investments in the ECOWAS Region- Applications Open on 12 October 2015

The ECOWAS Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ECREEE) and its partners are teaming together to establish a small grant facility to provide technical and financial support to upscale the deployment of projects that simultaneously promote gender equality and improve energy access in the region.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR ENERGY POLICY RESEARCH – APPLICATION OPENS 1 OCTOBER 2015

The ECOWAS Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ECREEE) is launching a Research Grant Program and is inviting research teams to submit proposals for policy research in any of the energy fields (e.g. energy technologies, energy finance, energy economics, energy policy, energy and the environment/climate change, energy and development, energy law etc.) Teams will receive a grant amount of not more than €1500 to contribute to the formulation of evidence-based energy policies or strategies in the region.

1ª Missão Empresarial Alemã com o tema “Eficiência Energética e Energias Renováveis para o desenvolvimento em Cabo Verde”

1ª Missão Empresarial Alemã com o tema “Eficiência Energética e Energias Renováveis para o desenvolvimento em Cabo Verde”

A Câmara de Comércio e Indústria Luso-Alemã (CCILA) organiza, em estreita colaboração com a Direção Geral de Energia de Cabo Verde (DGE) e com o apoio da Cabo Verde Investimentos (CI), das Câmaras de Comércio e Indústria Sotavento e Barlavento, do Ecowas Centre for Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency (ECREEE) e da consultora alemã RENAC (Renewables Academy), a 1ª Missão Empresarial para empresas alemãs a Cabo Verde. Esta iniciativa terá lugar entre os dias 12 e 16 de outubro de 2015 e é coordenada com as atividades da 1ª Feira Internacional do Ambiente e Energias Renováveis de Cabo Verde (FIAER).

ECOWAS Sustainable Energy Policy & Investment High Level Forum

From the 14th to18th of September 2015, over two hundred participants from the governments, high level policy and decision makers, project promoters, investors and international partners, as well as private sector players and civil society from within the ECOWAS region gathered for the ECOWAS Sustainable Energy Policy & Investment High Level Forum in Abidjan.

Ten finalists shortlisted for Second West Africa Forum for Clean Energy Financing awards

WAFCEF 2 Second West African Forum for Clean Energy Financing

The Second West Africa Forum for Clean Energy Financing (WAFCEF2) awards, in which entrepreneurs showcase their projects in the area of clean and renewable energy, opened Thursday, September 17 at the African Development Bank headquarters in Abidjan. The Forum provides finalists with an opportunity to present their projects to financiers and investors.

Ivoire Hydro Energy scoops top prize at second West Africa Forum for Clean Energy Financing awards

From L - R: Mahama Kappiah, Executive Director of ECREEE, Mr. Etty Ekolan Alain, WAFCEF 2 winner and H.E. Mr. Solomon Asamoah  AfDB’s Vice President for Infrastructure, Private Sector and Regional Integration

Etty Ekolan Alain is the winner of the top prize at the second West Africa Forum for Clean Energy Financing (WAFCEF2).

Alain’s project, Ivoire Hydro Energy, is a start-up in Côte d’Ivoire. It seeks to design, construct and operate a 44 megawatt hydro power plant on the country’s Bandama River under a concession agreement signed with the government in December 2013.

“I feel a lot of emotion for my project to have been selected winner of this award. I am proud of all the work done by my team,” he said after he was announced the winner on Thursday evening.

ECREEE Organizes Strategy Meeting on Supporting ECOWAS Countries to Address Climate Change

The ECOWAS region is one of the most vulnerable regions in the world to the impacts of climate change. Changes in climate have caused impacts on natural and human systems and all development sectors in the region.

Droughts, natural resource degradation, floods, reduced agricultural productivity, coastal land erosion and salinization of coastal lands are some of the impacts of climate change evidenced in the ECOWAS region.

Head of States confirm Barbados as the host country of the Caribbean Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (CCREEE)

The Thirty-Sixth Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), held at Bridgetown, Barbados, 2-4 July 2015, endorsed the establishment of the "Caribbean Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (CCREEE)" as the implementation hub for sustainable energy activities and projects within the region.

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