RE-ACTIVATE- Work Package 1
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Work Package 1
Work Package 1: Knowledge and Strategy Building
The activities conducted in the framework of this work package help the partners to better understand the socio-economic implications and impacts of RE/EE, to evaluate correctly the associated tradeoffs and goal conflicts, to draw the right policy conclusions and to direct them toward local socio-economic development. Enhanced awareness of decision makers leads to an improved quality of policy choices which in turn translate into improved framework conditions for local markets. The multiple linkages and synergies between energy and development promotion policies can be leveraged for local value and job creation.
The activities conducted within this work package consist of the following main items:
► Assessing RE/EE employment effects and potentials in MENA countries
► Providing RE/EE guidance documents and tools for policy makers, investors, and technical experts
Work Package 2
Work Package 2: Support and Promotion Measures
The activities conducted in the framework of this work package help the partners to develop and implement specific, adapted support and promotion policies and measures in favor of labor- and value-intensive RE/EE markets in their countries.
Special emphasis is placed on markets segments which already exist or are currently emerging, are accessible for local actors in terms of financial affordability and technological sophistication, generate over-average effects in terms of local jobs and income creation, and do not require any more comprehensive financial or political support by governments.
On the basis of the assessment and guidance documents, dialogue platforms and cooperation mechanisms created in the framework of work package 1, conceptual and operational advice and support is provided for local stakeholders and user groups to use and deepen the identified market segments, while at the same promoting or enhancing their participation in them.
In general, this consists of awareness raising, demonstration projects, and capacity building for local suppliers, users, investors, and administrators. Special importance is given to those actors who offer a multiplier and leverage potential and therefore allow for later replication and upscaling of the achieved results and lessons learnt on a national and/or regional level.
The activities conducted within this work package focus on the following priority areas:
► Promoting EE in the Building and Industry Sector
► Promoting RE/EE in the Agricultural and Agri-Business Sector
► Promoting RE/EE Deployment at the Municipal Level
► Promoting Market Access for Private RE/EE Service Providers
► Providing Technical Support for RE/EE Strategy Processes
► Facilitating Euro-Arab RE/EE Cluster Cooperation
Work Package 3
Work Package 3: Advice and Support for Skill and Capacity Building
Helps partners to specifically build up and strengthen technical and organizational competencies and capacities at both individual and institutional levels which they need to effectively implement the decisions they have taken, to deliver the quality that is required, and to reach the objectives they have set for themselves, especially in view of their envisaged participation in emerging RE/EE markets.
In the framework of this work package, RE-ACTIVATE is currently focusing on the following priority activities:
In the framework of this work package, RE-ACTIVATE is currently focusing on the following priority activities:
► Developing, Disseminating, and Pilot Testing of Adequate Quality Standards and Quality Assurance Mechanisms for RE/EE Professional and Further Training (Quality4Training)
► Developing and Implementing Human Capacity Building Activities for Local Key Stakeholders in Selected Priority Areas
Work Package 4
Work Package 4: Regional Network Building and Knowhow Transfer
The activities conducted in the framework of this work package allow the partners to engage in a mutually beneficial exchange and to learn from relevant experiences elsewhere. This supports the reinforcement and intensification of cross-border cooperation and potentially also the interlinking and harmonization of energy policies and systems, paving the way for the emergence of (more) attractive and dynamic regional markets for RE/EE products and services. Where applicable, relevant experience inside and outside the MENA region is mobilized and put at the disposal of participants: always with a view to maximize and leverage the socio-economic benefits of RE/EE technologies.
Activities within this work package are mostly organized in the framework of or back-to-back with large international gatherings such as the UNFCCC Climate Conferences (COPs), the World Future Energy Summit (WFES) in Abu Dhabi, the Beirut Energy Forum (BEF), the Arab Forum for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (AFREEE) and the Arab EE Day, the latter two in Cairo. This approach helps to raise additional synergies.
The main cooperation partners for this work package are the Regional Center for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (RCREEE) in Cairo, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) in Abu Dhabi and Bonn, the Lebanese Center for Energy Conservation (LCEC, organizer of the BEF), and last but not least the League of Arab States (LAS). It must, however, be noted, that the meetings organized under the work packages 1-3, too, often involve participants from other countries. Therefore, they, too, support cross-border knowhow exchange and network building, albeit in way that is more focused on a specific issue area which does not necessarily concern all the countries of the region.
The sector-specific, region-wide knowhow exchange within GIZ also plays an important role in this respect: RE-ACTIVATE is co-coordinating the New Employment Promotion Task Force of the Sector Network MENREM (which encompasses all GIZ projects in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean working in the field of climate, energy, and water). Further, it participates in the Employment Promotion Work Group of the Sector Network MINO (which encompasses all GIZ projects in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean working in the field of sustainable economic development). The experiences which can be mobilized with their help therefore accompany and support the activities under this work package. RE-ACTIVATE also actively contributes to the biannual global sector meetings of GIZ (MATA & FATA), as well as to more specific events organized by MENREM and MINO.
There are two main types of regional meetings:
- The RE/EE Benefits Workshop Series jointly organized with RCREEE and IRENA
- The Cluster Cooperation Workshop Series described before under Work Package 2
Five RE/EE Benefits Events have taken place to date:
►The RE/EE Benefits Workshop of 19 January 2015, organized in the framework of the WFES in Abu Dhabi
►The SE4JOBS Regional Experts Workshop of 10 September 2015, organized in the framework of the BEF in Beirut and presented under SE4JOBS in work package 1
►The RE/EE Benefits Workshop of 20 January 2016, organized in the framework of the WFES in Abu Dhabi
►The RE/EE Benefits Workshop of 5 April 2016, organized in the framework of the MENAREC in Kuwait
►The RE/EE Benefits Workshop of 31 May 2016, organized in the framework of the AFREEE in Cairo
Three RE/EE Events are foreseen for the rest of 2017:
►A RE/EE Benefits Conference on Decentralized RE Approaches, to be organized in the framework of the next Arab EE Day in Cairo in May
►A RE/EE Benefits Conference on The Socio-Economic Impacts of Wind Power, to be organized in the 2nd quarter in Tunis
►A RE/EE Benefits Workshop on RE/EE in the Agricultural Sector, to be organized in the framework of the next BEF in September
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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). |
