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On 2 November 2012, the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) went into a partnership agreement with ECREEE.

On 3 November 2012, the expert team on the SEEA-WA project met to appraise the activities implemented in the year 2012 and deliberate on action plans for the second year of the project cycle.

On 12 April 2012 the global environment facility (GEF) project, Promoting Market-based Development of Small- to Medium-Scale Renewable Energy Systems in Cape Verde, was officially launched at an event in Praia, Cape Verde.

Within the framework of the imple­mentation of the SEEA-WA pro­ject, a team of experts, led by Mr Martin Lugmayr and Mr Jansenio Delgado from ECREEE, and accompanied by Mr Pe­ter Cattelaens, an expert from the EU Energy Initiative, Partnership Dia

ECREEE, in part­nership with IRENA, based in Abu Dhabi, conducted a two-day RRA exercise in the Gambia, with the ob­jective of evaluating the country’s readiness for the deployment of renew­able energy technologies.

Co-organized by the African De­velopment Bank (AfDB), the first ECOWAS Renewable Energy Invest­ment (EREI) and Business Forum took place on 27–28 September in Dakar, Senegal.

The Sixth Executive Board Meeting of ECREEE was held on Friday 2 November 2012 at the Movenpick Hotel in Ac­cra, Ghana.

ECREEE and the International Re­newable Energy Agency (IRENA) organized a regional workshop on Energy Planning Methodologies and Tools in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire from 10–12 December 2012.

In line with the declaration of the year 2012 as the International Year of Sustain­able Energy for All, on 23 August 2012 the Presi­dent of the Federal Republic of Nige­ria, Dr Jonathan Goodluck, and the Director General of the United Nations Indu

ECREEE, with the support of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the techni­cal assistance of Nexant, organized a regional workshop on ECOWAS Wind and Solar Resource Mapping in Praia, Cape Verde, from 9–11 July 2012.

The implementation of the First Call of the ECOWAS Renewable Energy Facility (EREF) got underway with the commence­ment of the contracting phase in February 2013.

ECREEE, the United Nations Indus­trial Development Organization (UNIDO), the Energy and Resourc­es Institute (TERI), and the Government of Togo organized a regional training workshop on ‘Designing and implementing solar ener­gy-based livelihood pr

ECREEE, in collaboration with the Global Bioenergy Partnership (GBEP) organized a workshop on Biomass Resource Assessment and Mapping, under Activity Group 1 (AG1) of the Working Group on Capacity Building (WGCB) for Sustainable Bioenergy.

ECREEE in partnership with the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the Alliance for Rural Electrification (ARE) conducted the first ever international conference on off-grid renewable energy, from 1- 2 November 2012, in Accra, Ghana.

The 11^th Meeting of ECOWAS Energy Ministers held on 31^st October 2012 on the occasion of the ECOWAS High Level Energy Forum which held from 29 – 31 October 2012.

The launch of the ECOWAS Observatory for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ECOWREX) at the High Level Forum, on the 31th of October, in Accra, Ghana, marked a giant step towards addressing the existing kn

The ECOWAS Commission, through ECREEE, and in collaboration with the Gov­ernment of Ghana, the Global Fo­rum on Sustainable Energy (GFSE), the Global Environment Fund (GEF) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) organis

An energy efficiency initiative under the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) is supporting the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) towards achieving its regional energy efficiency objective of doubling the annual improvement in energy e