The 3rd phase of the “Technical assistance to update the energy security indicators for the framework for action on energy security in the Pacific“ began in October 2013 with the aim to:
- To strengthen SPC’s capacity, as lead regional energy agency to compile accurate, reliable and consistent energy security indicators for the period 2010 to 2012 for all 14 FICs in a timely manner
- To support effective energy sector management and decision making in the PICs, by enabling access by national energy offices, other national stakeholders and CROPs, other regional agencies and development partners to accurate, reliable and consistent regional energy security data for the past three years, including analysis of trends over time, comparison with baseline and analysis of key indicators
- To assess the effectiveness and impacts of the FAESP IPESP, in terms of works completed and as measured with the energy security indicators.
During the course of the project implemenatation, SPC was further provided with the responsibility to be the interim host of the Pacific Regional Data Repository for Sustainable Energy for ALL (PRDR SE4ALL) in April 2014 during the Regional Transport and Energy Ministerial Meeting. This led SPC to further request EUEI PDF in June 2014 to support progress the implementatiion of the PRDR SE4ALL initiative. This was gracefully approved to acomodate the request with the project implementatiion timeline extended to March 2015. As a result of the added request an ammended contract was signed in August 2014 which further captures an additional aim as follows:
- To support SPC progress the implementation of the PRDR SE4ALL initiative looking at the development of the PRDR Portal and strengthening the buy-in to the PRDR SE4ALL initiative in selected PICs.
However the project was not completed by March 2015 and was on stand still for 10 months, which was than progressed from February to October 2016.
The European Union Energy initiative partnership Dialogue Facility (EUEI PDF) has been kind enough to co-fund much of the work to date including providing USD 100,000 in funds to support SPC technical assitance efforts to the the PICs.
