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Energy services for poverty alleviation in Sub-Saharan Africa: 24 COOPENER projects supported by the IEE programmeBiomass Energy Platforms Implementation for Training in Africa(BEPITA)Programme area:Target countries:Status:Coordinator:Partners:Website:Objective:Benefits:Keywords:COOPENER, Strengthening local energy expertise in developingcountriesThe none limited associated countries are: Burkina Faso, Cameroon,Senegal, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Benin, Mali, Niger, Chad,Gabon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory coast,Central African Republic.ongoingPhilippe GIRARDCIRAD (French Agricultural Research Centre for InternationalDevelopment); FranceE-mail: philippe.girard@cirad.frTel : + 33 (4) 67 61 44 75Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL); BelgiumGroupement des ecoles EIER-ETSHER; Burkina FasoIsome ; Burkina FasoEcole Nationale Supérieure Polytechnique, Camerounhttp://www.bepita.netEstablishing perennials training platforms for biomass-energytechnologies in AFRICAStrengthening local energy expertise and Developing energyproduction capacity in Africabiomass energy, training and networkingBEPITADuration: 01/01/2005 – 31/12/2007Budget: € 530,755 (EU contribution: 45.93%)Contract number: EIE/04/032/S07.38611Short descriptionBEPITA establishes perennial specialised training platforms for biomass technologies covering two wide regions inSub-Saharan Africa: the “dry zone” and the “wetland zone”, each of them having specific energy needs andpotentials as the quantities of biomass available and processes used differ. The platforms will inventory, classifyand organise global educational packages covering the entire biomass energy chain and focus on targeted groups.Platforms would be based in Burkina Faso (“dry zone” base) and Cameroon (“wetland zone” base), within thepremises of the BEPITA partners, and clustering a wide range of training activities and services undertaken byexperienced actors in training with:• Short term benefit by organising training sessions and workshops for policy makers and private sectorrepresentatives with particular attention devoted to transfer of technologies• Long term benefit by reinforcing master level and post graduates as well as professors.Expected and/or achieved results• Targeted training sessions (for private sector, public sector and professional organisations/NGO sector)organised within countries located in the “dry zone” and “wetland zone” base platforms.• Training course session for students/teachers in high schools, university and technical institutes.• Directories that contains information about expert organisations and professionals that are qualified to work inthe field of energy production, with an emphasis on biomass, and a list presenting the geographical distributionof the demonstration installations in the two regions ( “dry zone” and the “wetland zone”)• Regional forums/workshops (in the “dry zone” and the “wetland zone”) focused on mature technologiesadapted to energy production from the various biomasses sources available in Africa.• New projects using biomass technologies developed in Africa10