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De:	Bhuwan [ Profil ]
Sujet:	UNDP Report on Energy in National Decentralization Policies
Envoyé:	Sep 15th, 2009 - 11:14:25

	Please find attached a recent publication Energy in "National Decentralization Policies: A Review Focusing on Least Developed Countries and Sub-Saharan Africa". This publication was commissioned by the Sustainable Energy Programme within the Environment and Energy Group, Bureau for Development Policy of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). As we know, decentralization can facilitate the active involvement of local actors in development processes, which can help scale up energy service delivery for the poor. However, connecting energy with decentralization processes remains an uncharted area. This UNDP report is the first of its kind to attempt to fill the knowledge gap. Based on the review of more than 600 documents and sources available online, this study endeavors to improve the present understanding of whether and how energy is taken into consideration within national decentralization policies and programmes in Least Developed Countries and in Sub-Saharan Africa. Within the limitations of online research, the study findings point to some broad trends which include: i) linkages between energy and decentralization are rarely discussed in national decentralization policy documents, which suggests that there is a gap in countries’ decentralization approaches; ii) sector-specific policies tend to better recognize energy issues in the context of decentralization than national decentralization policies, but their treatment of the energy-decentralization nexus varies greatly across energy issues; iii) three themes related to the energy-decentralization nexus – participation, local planning and service delivery – appear as common threads in the policy documents reviewed; and iv) to take full advantage of decentralization opportunities, efforts are needed to integrate energy issues into local development planning and processes promoted under decentralization schemes. This document can be downloaded from UNDP Energy website http://www.undp.org/energy/docs/Energy_Decentralization_r8.pdf This document along with others can also be viewed from www.undp.org/energyby clicking on "What's New". Thank you in advance for your interest in this work. Sincerely, Sarwat Chowdhury Environment & Energy Group, UNDP -- Bhuwan K.C. M +977- 9721 410862 \| POB 8975, EPC 7282 \| E bhuwan007 (at) gmail.com YES Country Leader (www.yesweb.org) Board, Association of Youth Organizations Nepal (AYON) (www.ayon.org) ************* Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. Think before YOU PRINT. http://profiles.takingitglobal.org/bhuwan007 Be the Change! See the Change!! Live the Change!!!

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