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Energy services for poverty alleviation in Sub-Saharan Africa: 24 COOPENER projects supported by the IEE programmeExpected and/or achieved resultsThrough the participation of private and public stakeholders, the project aims to:• Identify energy services essential for achieving the Millennium DevelopmentGoals, in areas such as water, health, education, gender equality, ruraldevelopment, etc.• Make propositions for integrating energy into development strategies.• Develop economic and financial models for energy service delivery.• Propose institutional actions for using local sustainable energy resources(notably biomass and hydropower).• Develop institutional mechanisms to assure that energy meets the needs of poverty eradication and nationaldevelopment.• Train and build capacity for these activities.Lessons learntAlthough the project is not yet completed it gives rise to the following preliminary conclusions:• In order to be effective, the activities of institutional support projects must be based on consultation, at everystep of the way, with the national and local public authorities of the beneficiary country. This is the only way toguarantee ownership and long term sustainability of results.• Partners in COOPENER projects must pay attention to the complex inter-relationship between, on the onehand ODA rules and practices, and on the other hand, Intelligent Energy Europe administrative rules.26