Brussels, 8-9 March 2012 - Africa-EU Partnership

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Partnership 5 - Energy PartnershipI. ParticipantsAfrica: Aboubakari BABA MOUSSA, AUC director for Infrastructure and Energy, PhilippeNiyongabo, AUC, Head of Energy Division, Cheikh Diakhate, Energy Expert provided byEUEI PDF to AUCEU: Rui Costa; Rainer Hakala, C5, EC ; Thomas Prien, C3, DG DevCo EC ; Marta Abrantes,DG Energy ; Daniel Schroth, Energy Team, AfDB; Martin Lubojacky, Czech RepublicII. OutcomesThe 7 th JEG of the AEEP held in Bonn on 9-10 February 2012 with more than 70participants (7 African and 11 EU MS, 3 Development Banks 2 Power Pools, 2 SpecialisedInstitutions, 2 International Organisations, 1 REC, and stakeholder representatives fromprivate sector, civil society and research from both continents each) concluded regardingprogress achieved in the AEEP since the 6 th JEG of March 2011 held in Mauritius (attendedby more than 60 participants) on the following:The First Stakeholder Forum of the AEEP will be held on 9-10 May 2012 in Cape Town,South Africa. 300 participants are expected to attend, including 40 public officials. The aim ofthe Forum is to achieve progress on the AEEP 2020 Political Targets by actively involvingthe European and African private sector, civil society, and research in the partnership byidentifying concrete contributions. The Forum will be an opportunity to bring together allrelevant stakeholder groups including financial institutions. A main focus is renewable energyand energy access as well as private sector participation. A save-the-date email will be sent by14 March 2012 followed by official invitation letters.The JEG endorsed the RECP 2020 Strategy: Creating Opportunities for RenewableEnergy in Africa. The RECP Strategy is made up of four action areas: Action Area 1 onPolicy Advisory Services, Action Area 2 on Private Sector Cooperation, Action Area 3 onProject Preparation and Flagship Investment Projects and Action Area 4 on Technology,Innovation, and Capacity Development. Under Action Area 3 a Project Preparation Facilitywill be considered for medium-scale renewable energy projects.Participants acknowledged the PIDA process. In order to successfully implement PIDA,emphasis should be given to capacity building for African national and regional stakeholdersas well as specialized agencies through the Infrastructure Architecture for InfrastructureDevelopment for Africa (IAIDA) and other programmes. It means also, tackling the softgovernance issues necessary for true regional integration: policy harmonization, facilitationmeasures and regulatory reforms as well as monitoring and evaluation tools. In addition,adequate funding needs to be mobilized in particular for project preparation and PIDApriority project implementation through instruments such as the Africa-EU InfrastructureTrust Fund and the NEPAD Infrastructure Project Preparation Facility (IPPF).16
The report on monitoring the Political Targets of the AEEP has been endorsed with somecomments. The monitoring system will be built on available data and already activeinstitutions.The outline of the AEEP baseline report for monitoring the Political Targets has beenendorsed. The first comprehensive baseline monitoring report will be delivered at theAEEP Forum in May 2012.Participants highlighted the need to strengthen African structures for data collection andanalysis such as the Africa Energy Information System (AEIS) and its institutional base,AFREC, as well as the national and regional structures. In the long term, the AEEPMonitoring should be able to entirely rely on such structures for African contributions. TheAEEP should work towards capacity development and knowledge transfer in this areaUNIDO, as chair of UN-Energy, presented on the Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL)Initiative and commended the AEEP for its clear and ambitious political targets and urgedAEEP Co-Chairs and other AEEP partners to publicly make a significant commitment toSE4ALL in the context of the AEEP at the opportunity of the Rio+20 conference in June2012. A joint side event between SE4ALL and the AEEP is being considered.I. ParticipantsReport on progress of EU-Africa Infrastructure PartnershipAfrica: Aboubakari BABA MOUSSA, Director for Infrastructure and Energy and PhilippeNiyongabo, Head of Energy Division, AUCEU: Rui Costa DEVCO C5, Tsiavos Elfterios, Paolo Ciccarelli and Thomas Prien C6II. OutcomesThe EU-Africa Infrastructure Partnership contributed through the Infrastructure Trust Fund tothe elaboration of PIDA. The same effort should be provided to support the PIDAimplementation, starting as matter of priority, with soft governance issues related to policyharmonization, facilitation measures and regulatory reforms as well as monitoring andevaluation tools.The 4 th meeting of the EU-Africa Infrastructure Partnership Steering Committee will be heldin Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, at the AU Headquarters. The meeting will focus especially on theStatus of Implementation of the Infrastructure Programmes of the Second Action Planincluding the transport and energy projects financed aunder the Port Moresby Programmes(10 M Euros), on the Implementation of the PIDA Priority Action Plan, consideration andadoption of a new Road Map and Action Plan.Participants at the 4 th meeting of the EU-Africa Infrastructure Partnership Steering Committeewill include representatives of EU, AUC, NEPAD-PCA, RECs, Regional Organizations,development partners, AU Specialized Institutions and the members of the Bureaus of theMinisterial Conferences (energy, ICT and transport).17
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