2^nd 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