The EU is strongly committed in supporting the SE4ALL objectives and goals, and to support developing countries, world wide, which are committed to reach the SE4All objectives and goals and to significantly scale up investment in the energy sector; and the EU Technical Assistance Facility is one of the major instruments developed by the EU to implement its SE4All commitments.

1. GENERAL PRESENTATION
EU Technical Assistance Facility (TAF) for the
“Sustainable Energy for All” Initiative
General Presentation
Presented by: TAF Team

2. Agenda
1. EU Technical Assistance Facility For SE4All
2. Ongoing and Future TAF Assignments
3. Conclusions
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3. Agenda
1. EU Technical Assistance Facility For SE4All
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Dominican Republic
Source: EuropeAid Media Library

4. The EU’s TAF Support to the SE4ALL Initiative
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❖ The EU is strongly committed in supporting the SE4All
objectives, and the Technical Assistance is available to
assist partner countries in fine tuning their policies and
regulatory framework, to accelerate and implement
positively, efficiently and effectively sector reform policies
on access to sustainable energy, energy efficiency and
energy supplies, and to facilitate the implementation of
the investment projects needed to meet the overall
SE4All objective of making modern energy services
accessible to all.
Inception Workshop, Hanoi – Vietnam
Source: EU

5. The Objectives of the EU TAF
for Sustainable Energy for All Initiative
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❖ In line with the Agenda for Change,
EU is strongly supporting the SE4All
initiative, which aims at reaching three
ambitious objectives by 2030:
• Ensuring universal access to
modern energy services
• Doubling the global rate of
improvement in energy efficiency
• Doubling share of renewable
energy in the global energy mix
Islands
Source: EuropeAid Media Library

6. Path to the EU TAF SE4ALL: Key Challenges
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❖ Innovative models needed for rural areas
❖ Keeping up with the fast paced urban development growth
❖ Overcoming financing barriers in all relevant sectors
❖ Exploiting the full potential of biomass: Shifting from
traditional to modern biomass
❖ Promoting energy efficiency in industries (energy audits,
dedicated trainings, supporting regulatory framework,
benchmarks definition, energy managers, financing
mechanisms, etc..)
❖ Converging towards energy efficient housing (building
rehabilitation, tackling energy subsidies obstacle,
awareness raising and capacity building, energy labelling,
enabling legal and regulatory frameworks, etc.)
Chuuk Island, Micronesia
Source: CEERD

7. EU Technical Assistance Facility
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•Support the targeted developing countries to:
• Improve their policy and regulatory framework conditions
• Provide attractive and enabling environment for
• increased public and private investment:
•Energy access
•Energy supplies
•Renewable energy
•Energy efficiency
Overall Objective

8. Delivering High Level Technical Assistance
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❖ Initial stocktaking, technical support in
the elaboration and implementation of
national energy sector policies and
reforms
❖ Capacity building particularly in the
policy and regulatory areas
❖ Technical support in preparation of
investment projects
❖ Mobilisation of funds and facilitation of
partnerships
❖ Industrial and technology cooperation
❖ Project demonstration
Mongolia
Source: UN Photo - Eskinder Debebe

9. 9
Study + Report
Short and
Medium-term TA
(Long-term TA could
also be available if
needed)
Discontinuous TA
Awareness
seminars
Training activities,
Workshops,
Conferences, field
trips, etc…
Individual Field
Trips in the EU or
elsewhere
Project brokering
Preparation of
documents
Combination of
All
Others
Type of Missions: Studies vs Technical Assistance

10. Regions Covered by the EU TAF
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Neighborhood (East and South), Asia
(including Central Asia), Latin America,
Caribbean and Pacific

11. Beneficiaries, Target Groups and Stakeholders
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12.  Contract duration - 4 years
 3 Key experts and 5.000 non-Key experts man-days
 Priority: countries / regions that have chosen
energy as focal sector in their bilateral cooperation
with the EU, but also other countries / regions may
benefit
 There is no allocation distribution for country /
region – The Process is demand driven contract
Beneficiaries, Target Groups and Stakeholders

13. Demand Driven Process
Demand
EUDs
coordination
ToRs
DEVCO Approval
/ Coordination
TAF
Deployment
MIPs/NIPS
Partners
Energy
priority
Beneficiaries
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EUDs

14. International TAF Team
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• KE1 Thierry Lefevre - Project Team Leader,
Project Manager and Key Expert for Asia
• KE2 Emmanuel Bergasse – Key Expert for
EU Neighbourhood (East and South) and
Central Asia
• KE3 Jan Van den Akker – Key Expert for
Latin America, Caribbean and Pacific
• NKE1 Senior Experts (international energy
sector references)
• NKE2 Senior Experts (various cross cutting
disciplines)
• NKE3 Junior Experts (support to senior
experts)

15. Agenda
2. Ongoing and Future TAF Assignments
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Pacific island
Source : UN Photo - Christopher Herwig

16. PV in Gujarat State, India
Source: SEWA 2015
Inception Workshop, Hanoi – Vietnam, April 2015
Source: EU
TAF ASSIGNMENT ASSIGNMENT DESCRIPTION STATUS
GEOGRAPHICAL TASKS: ASIA
VIETNAM
Stocktaking Mission
Collecting more information about the energy sector in Viet
Nam, establishing contacts with the stakeholders, initiating
the preparation of the Inception Workshop
Finalised
MIP Inception
Workshop
Organizing an Inception Workshop - official kick-off the EU
cooperation on energy Finalised
Energy Policy
Assessment
Assessing energy policies in Vietnam with a specific
emphasis on sub-sector policies for renewable energy,
energy efficiency, access to energy in rural area and power
market reform
On-going
Energy Policy
Group
Constitution of a multi-level forum that supports policy
dialogue and development, coordination and exchange of
experiences and information in the Energy Sector in Vietnam
On-going
Energy Data
Collection
Workshop
Organizing a Workshop with several Partners (MOIT/GDE,
IEA, APERC, DEA On-going
INDIA
Solar PV Pumping
System for Salt
Production (NGO
SEWA) Phase 1
Feasibility Assessment of a Solar PV Pumping System in the
Rann of Kutch - India, to support approx. 40,000 poor Salt
workers
Finalised
Village
Electrification –
Mini-grids (NGO
SEWA)
Preparation of an “energy demand and supply assessment"
for PV-powered hybrid mini-grid systems in selected villages
in the Gujarat State of India
On-going
Solar PV Pumping
System for Salt
Production (NGO
SEWA) Phase 2
Formulation of a detailed Finance and Business Plan On-going
PAKISTAN
Energy Policy
Assessment
In-depth policy analysis of the energy sector and policies in
Pakistan especially in the field of rural development On-going

17. Islands
Source: EuropeAid Media Library
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TAF ASSIGNMENT ASSIGNMENT DESCRIPTION STATUS
GEOGRAPHICAL TASKS: CARIBBEAN
BARBADOS
Participation to EC
Regional Water and
Energy Workshop
Delivering presentations on Rural Electrification and different
business models
Finalised
REGIONAL
Participation to CREF
2015 (Caribbean
Renewable Energy
Forum)
Attendance at Caribbean Renewable Energy Forum-CREF (19-21
Oct 2015), Support to EU Delegation
On-going
Ocean Energy
Ressources
Construction of an Ocean Energy Atlas for the OECS, Production
of an Ocean Energy “Locational Guidance”
On-going
CUBA Stocktaking Mission
Overview of the RES sector and recommendations on how the
EC can contribute in reaching the RESS&EE target set by the
Cuban Government
On-going
GEOGRAPHICAL TASKS: NEIGHBORHOOD SOUTH
PALESTINE
PV Desalination Plant
in Gaza ToRs Approved – Search of 3 NKEs On-going
HORIZONTAL TASKS
Evaluation of A 19,2 MW Solar Power
Plant in Vietnam
Conducting an evaluation of the project proposal in view of
building a pipeline of projects for the ElectriFI Initiative Finalised
Guidelines for Budget Support in the
Energy Sector
Providing technical support for the preparation of Guidelines for
Sector Budget Support Programme in the Energy Sector On-going
List of Conferences, Workshops,
Exhibitions, etc.
Creating and updating a list of all energy events worldwide and
related to SE4All Activities On-going
Syntheses / Lessons Learnt
Creating and maintaining a database with all documents, reports,
studies and articles published on SE4All main fields of interest
and preparing syntheses and Lessons Learnt from this database
On-going
Identification of TAF Proposed Projects
Create and maintain a 2-monthly up-dated list of Project Proposal
from all Consortium Partners and gathered by the TAF Team.
On-going

18. TAF ASSIGNMENT ASSIGNMENT DESCRIPTION STATUS
VISIBILITY TASKS
Visibility and Communication of the TAF
Consortium
Identifying innovative visibility and communication models Finalised
TAF Leaflet
Preparation of a TAF Leaflet describing the potential support
from the TAF as well as son Activities implemented
On-going
Vietnam Inception Workshop Press
Release
Making a short recount of the IW, and emphasizing the main
results of this event: The signing between EU and Vietnam of the
Conclusions of the Inception Workshop
Finalised
Vietnam Inception Workshop Video-clip
Presentation of a 3 minutes video-clip on the Inception
Workshop, uploaded on capacity4dev website
Finalised

19. Agenda
3. Conclusions
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Palau Island
Source: CEERD

20. 3. Conclusions
❖ The EU is strongly committed in supporting the SE4ALL objectives and
goals, and to support developing countries, world wide, which are
committed to reach the SE4All objectives and goals and to significantly
scale up investment in the energy sector; and
❖ The EU Technical Assistance Facility is one of the major instruments
developed by the EU to implement its SE4All commitments.
❖ The EU TAF is a Demand driven process - The participation of
relevant parties is crucial to extract the most out of the TAF.
❖ Next steps for EU TAF for SE4ALL in are:
❖ Beneficiaries can address their support requests to the EU
Delegations;
❖ DEVCO will then mobilize the EU TAF, which would be able to
quickly identify human resources needed (Key and Non-Key
Experts) to support Beneficiaries in the implementation of their
Projects.
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Peru
Source: EuropeAid Media Library

21. Thank you for your kind attention
EU Technical Assistance
Facility for the “Sustainable
Energy for All” Initiative
Brussels Project Office
4 Rue de la Presse
Bureau No 14 (1st floor)
1000 Brussels, Belgium
Tel.: +32 (0)2 22 71 124 (direct)
Tel.: +32 (0)2 22 71 164 (direct)
Fax: +32 (0)2 22 72 780
E-mail: t.lefevre@ceerd.net
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