SE4Jobs Project

The SE4JOBS Project was launched in 2014 as a collaborative effort of six GIZ projects: the regional RE-ACTIVATE Project and five concerned sector projects dealing with different aspects of sustainable energy and socio-economic development. It also involves distinguished external experts, especially from adelphi and the FFU, as well as key GIZ partners in the concerned countries. RE-ACTIVATE has coordinated SE4JOBS since its launch.

SE4JOBS aims to gather available worldwide experience on how to strengthen the link between socio-economic development and sustainable energy technologies, especially in developing and emerging countries, with a view to facilitating the application of good practices in other partner countries of German international cooperation. The goal is to provide a set of specific, application-oriented instruments and recommendations helping decision makers and practitioners to develop better policy approaches and institutional settings for the promotion of local employment and income creation through RE/EE.

In the scope of SE4JOBS the following products have been or are currently being developed:

• Six SE4JOBS Case Studies providing in-depth intelligence on successful and good-practice job and value creation through RE/EE in key developing/emerging countries.
• An SE4JOBS Toolbox based on these good-practice analysis, covering the entire policy cycle and providing practice-oriented guidance for partner countries and international agencies on how to boost jobs and value through RE/EE.
• An SE4JOBS Strategy Paper resuming the main worldwide success factors and lessons learnt, and providing application-oriented conclusions and recommendations for policy makers and practitioners, globally and with regard to MENA in particular.

The full texts of these studies as well as an online version of the toolbox can be found in the publications section: 

► SE4JOBS Toolbox

► SE4JOBS Good Practice Case Study Brazil

► SE4JOBS Good Practice Case Study China

► SE4JOBS Good Practice Case Study India  

► SE4JOBS Good Practice Case Study Mexico

► SE4JOBS Good Practice Case Study South Africa

► SE4JOBS Good Practice Case Study Turkey

► SE4JOBS Discussion Paper: Global Findings, Concrete Implications for MENA 

SE4JOBS has been designed in a way so as to give key stakeholders from the very beginning and at every step the possibility to participate in the process and contribute to its success. The aim has been to allow for an interactive exchange with them, gather available experience in this field, help disseminate and further improve the results of the project and, by doing so, prepare the ground and pave the way for their later application and replication. To this end, targeted trainings have been or are being organized for actual or potential partners and users in order to familiarize them with the use the products and the methodologies behind them. The following national and international outreach activities and expert meetings have been organized to date in the scope of the project:

• SE4JOBS Expert Workshops in MENA Countries:
  

SE4JOBS Expert Workshop in Rabat (25 March 2015)

SE4JOBS Expert Workshop in Tunis (9 June 2015)  

SE4JOBS Expert Workshop at the Beirut Energy Forum (10 September 2015)

SE4JOBS Training Workshop in Cairo (26 October 2015)

• SE4JOBS Events outside the MENA Region:
  

SE4JOBS Kickoff Workshop at GIZ Headquarters Eschborn (14 October 2014)  

SE4JOBS Workshop at GIZ Headquarters Eschborn (7 May 2015) (Link)

SE4JOBS Workshop at the GIZ Global Sector Meeting in Bad Lauterberg (8 July 2015)

SE4JOBS Webinar organized by the Task Force Employment Promotion of the GIZ Regional Sector Network MEN-REM (15 March 2016)

SE4JOBS Training to be organized at the upcoming GIZ Global Sector Meeting in Bad Lauterberg (June 2017)

SE4JOBS Presentation to be co-organized at the upcoming COP 23 in Bonn (November 2017)

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).