The 1st Consultation
Meeting
Selected members of the
stakeholder group were invited to the first consultation meeting
held in Paris on 20-21 February 2006.
The participants discussed
and validated the
background study focusing on RE risk management instruments
for developing countries, agreed to establish the three Working
Groups (WGs) and decided on the next steps for the WG research activities.
The meeting also aimed
to serve as a forum for knowledge exchange among various risk management
specialists and RE industry representatives both from the public
and private sectors, and OECD and GEF eligible countries. This inclusive
approach should facilitate the process of development of new risk
management instruments/ structures for RE projects in developing
countries.
List
of participants
Agenda and presentations
The Working Groups (WGs)
below are mandated to assess risk management instruments and approaches
to identify and recommend promising modalities of such instruments
to be applied in GEF eligible countries. The recommended instruments
(1-2 per WG) will be further examined as feasibility study cases.
Each working group consists
of task leaders, representatives from financial institutions and
relevant RE industry as well as consultant(s). External experts
will be engaged wherever possible and necessary.
With inputs from the
working groups' members, the task leaders have coordinated the finalization
of the Terms of Reference (ToR) for consultant(s) to be hired under
each WG. The TORs were reviewed by the advisory group* and steering
committee**.
Specific research activities
of respective WGs and task leaders are as follows:
WG 1: Large Scale on-grid RE power
projects (incl. carbon finance projects)
Task leaders: Samuel Tumiwa (ADB) and Dirk Kohler (GSDP)
WG 2: Small scale off-grid stand-alone
RE
Task leaders: Martin Krause (UNDP) and Judy Siegel (GVEP/Energy
and Security Group)
WG 3: Geothermal projects
Task leaders: Helmut Schreiber (World Bank) and Kyoichi Shimazaki
(World Bank)
* Advisory Group:
consisting of representatives from UNEP, WB, UNDP, GEF STAP, BASE,
and the WG task leaders
**Steering
Committee: consisting of representatives from UNEP, WB, GEF and
STAP
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