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Energy for Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific Region: Challenges and Lessons from UNDP Projects

• Energy for Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific Region: Challenges and Lessons from UNDP Projects (2004)

Editors: Sooksiri Chamsuk, Kamal Rijal, and Minoru Takada

This publication features case studies of seven UNDP projects on energy for sustainable development in the Asia-Pacific region and offers valuable lessons for consideration.  The most important lessons include: a) participation is the key to successful delivery of modern energy services in rural areas; b) technology options must remain open and be development-needs driven; and c) policies to promote energy services for productive applications can maximize development effectiveness.  The case studies also suggest that country diversities will offer different entry points for energy in the context of poverty reduction and, therefore, a "one size fits all" approach should be avoided.

Contents

Acknowledgements

Energy Working Group in Asia and the Pacific

Foreword

List of Unit Abbreviations

•  Chapter 1: Energy for sustainable development: Challenges for Asia and the Pacific and lessons from UNDP projects in the region.

•  Chapter 2: Sustainable rural energy in Bangladesh: A multistakeholder and multidimensional approach towards mainstreaming renewable energy technologies.

•  Chapter 3: Working with rural communities to conserve wood energy: A case study from Bhutan

•  Chapter 4: Participatory approaches to rural energy supply: A case study of biomass energy for rural India

•  Chapter 5: Microhydro case study: The Carung and Seloliman projects in Indonesia

•  Chapter 6: The Rural Energy Development Programme as a model of holistic rural development in Nepal

•  Chapter 7: Financing for renewable energy: Lessons from the FINESSE project in the Philippines

•  Chapter 8: Sustainable poser supply on Apolima Island, Samoa