3rd ARFREE and Exhibition

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The 3rd ARFREE & Exhibition : Towards Competitive Energy Markets 

Date: 31 May 2016,

Venue: InterContinental City Stars Cairo, Room “Abdeen”

Organizers:

• League of Arab States, Energy Department
  
• German International Cooperation (GIZ), Regional Project RE-ACTIVATE
  
• Regional Center for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (RCREEE
  

Objectives of the Workshop:

• To present existing as well as emerging RE/EE market potentials and value based employment opportunities in the MENA Region
• To highlight and discuss possible policy approaches and instruments for enhancing socio-economic welfare through RE/EE in the MENA Region
• To discuss how business can contribute to building up local RE/EE value chains and jobs and what experiences are available in this respect

Invitees to the Workshop:

• Policy makers, public sector representatives
• Private and financial sector representatives
• Experts and researchers
• Media and civil society representatives

Format: Short presentation by each speaker (10 minutes) followed by a panel discussion and Q&A

Event Moderation: Steffen Erdle, Head of Project RE-ACTIVATE

Conference Agenda: link

Moderator's Notes: link

Agenda

Time	Item	Speaker
17:00	Opening of the workshop, welcome of participants Short overview of RCREEE and GIZ/RE-ACTIVATE activities for strengthening local RE/EE capacities in the MENA region	Steffen Erdle (GIZ/RE-ACTIVATE) Ahmed Badr (RCREEE) Mohamed El Sobki (NREA) Jamila Matar (LAS)
17:15	Some case studies for emerging labor-intensive RE/EE markets in the MENA Region
	Value & Employment Effects of a bottom-up Approach - The Example of Tunisia.pdf Value & Employment Effects of a bottom-up Approach - The Example of Tunisia.pdf​	Ulrike Lehr (GWS) Sami Marrouki (ETI – Ecoser)
	Value and employment creation through RE/EE in the agricultural sector: Some insights from Morocco and Tunisia	Steffen Erdle (GIZ/RE-ACTIVATE)
	The socio-economic impact of EE: Up-to-date results from the MENA region	Ammar Altaher (RCREEE) Mohamed Mahgoub (RCREEE)
	Good practice policy approaches and instruments for RE/EE value and employment promotion
	Local content friendly auctions & feed-in tariffs: The cases of Egypt and the GCC	Mohamed El Sobki (New & Rene-wable Energy Agency Egypt) Mustapha Toumi (EU-GCC Clean Energy Network)
	Targeted financial support programs: The case of Lebanon	Joseph El Asad (Lebanese Center for Energy Conservation)
	Good practice cases for business-driven value development, job creation and capacity building
	Wind: The cases of Egypt and Morocco	Hassan Amin (ACWA Power) Khaled Ghasser (Solar Energy Development Association, Egypt)
	Solar: The cases of Tunisia and Egypt	Wael El Nashar (ONERA, Egypt)
	Skill & capacity building needs for RE/EE in the MENA region	Ahmed Ernez (RE Cluster / Biome Solar Industries, Tunisia) Sami Marrouki (ETI – Ecoser)
18:30	Discussion among the speakers & the audience	All
19:20	Take-aways and closing remarks	Maged Mahmoud (RCREEE) Ashraf Kraidy (RCREEE) Steffen Erdle (GIZ/RE-ACTIVATE)

Reference

This article is part of the RE-ACTIVATE project. RE-ACTIVATE “Promoting Employment through Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency in the MENA Region” is implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).