Working Group on Capacity Building meeting 2012
2nd Working Group on Capacity Building - Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), 19 June 2012
ECOWAS Regional Bioenergy Forum - Bamako (Mali), 19-22 March 2012
- Draft programme (English version, French version)
- Concept note (English version, French version)
- Regional Bioenergy Strategy Framework (English version, French version)
- Press announcement
- Presentations
- I.1 The use of traditional biomass in the ECOWAS Region, negative consequences & ECREEE Response (Bah F M Saho - ECREEE)
- I.2.1 ECOWAS-UNDP Regional Report (Demba Diop - UNDP)
- I.2.2 Country Assessment Reports-Senegal (Sana Faty - Ministry of Renewable Energy of Senegal)
- I.2.2 Country Assessment Reports-Ghana (Kofi Agyarko - Energy Commission Ghana)
- I.3 Critical issues in bioenergy - Exploring the opportunities, constraints and trade-offs (Thomson Sinkala - Biofuels Association of Zambia and Monga Mehlwana - UNECA)
- II.1 Bioenergy Policy Development and Practice in Mali (Thera Aminata Fofana - Agence National de Développement des Biocarburants)
- II.2 Bioenergy Policy Development and Practice in Ghana (Kwabena Otu-Danquah - Energy Commission Ghana)
- II.3 Bioenergy Policy Development and Practice in Senegal (Sana Faty - Ministry of Renewable Energy of Senegal)
- II.4 Bioenergy Policy Development and Practice in Sierra Leone
- II.6 Developing Conditions for the Commercialization of Bioenergy (Marlon Arraes J. Leal - Ministry of Mines and Energy of Brazil)
- III.1 Ways to address and overcome food versus fuel competition (Olivier Dubois - FAO)
- III.2 Biofuel production for increased food production in Mali (Hugo Verkuijl - Mali Biocarburant S.A.)
- IV.1 Cookstoves in West Africa (Melinda Kimble - UN Foundation)
- IV.3 Presentation on GIZ-ProCEAO Cookstoves project (Andrea Reikat - GIZ-ProCEAO)
- IV.4 Pyrolysis and bio-char for soil enrichment (Moses Mensah - KNUST, Ghana)
- V.1 Sustainable rural wood supplies and efficienct bio-charcoal production techniques in the Sahel (Hamadi Konandji - PREDAS)
- V.2 Making charcoal production in sub-Saharan Africa more sustainable (Ella Lammers - Agentschap NL)
- V.3 Agricultural sources of biogas including anaerobic digestion of coffee production residues (Gerard J. Ostheimer - US Department of Agriculture)
- V.4 Biomass Energy Strategy-an initiative of GIZ and EUEI
- VI.1 Introduction to the UN Energy Decision Support Tool (DST) (Marina Otto- UNEP)
- VI.2 Showcasing the Kenyan case-the WHERE methodology for deciding the most appropriate sites for bioenergy (Bernard Muok - African Centre for Technological Studies)
- VI.3 Policies for Sustainable Bioenergy (Charles Hefner - Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil)
- VI.6 Defining the WHO in your country-The example from Ghana and the inter-ministerial dialogue (Wisdom Ahiataku-Togobo - Ministry of Energy of Ghana)
- VII.1 The GBEP Environmental Indicators (Gerard J. Ostheimer - US Department of Agriculture)
- VII. 2 The GBEP Social Indicators (Olivier Dubois - FAO)
- VII.3 The GBEP Economic Indicators (Melinda Kimble and Sarah Fulton - UN Foundation)
- VII.4 Piloting the GBEP Sustainability Indicators in Ghana (Hamza Tanko, Ghana Renewable Energy Agency and Ralph Brieskorn - Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, The Netherlands)
- VIII.1 Drivers for Bioenergy Market Development-The need for adequate policy framework and mandatory codes and standard (Emerson Kloss - Minsitry of Foreign Affairs, Brazil)
- VIII.2 Successful financing for smallholders (Orphé Mézétou Adom - Biovivo sarl)
- VIII.3 Potential for the sustainable production of novel bioenergy crops in the ECOWAS region (Piet van der Linde - QUINVITA)
- VIII.4 Expansion of CleanStar cooking solution to other cities in Sub-Saharan Africa (Stefan Mård - CleanStar Mozambique)
- List of participants



