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Appropriate Green Technologies for Enhanced Rural Livelihood

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Biomass Energy Service-based Rural Energy Entrepreneurship cover Biomass Energy Service-based Rural Energy Entrepreneurship

E/ESCWA/SDPD/2016/GUIDE (PART II)

The present guide addresses the challenges of rural energy enterprises in developing countries, and sets out solutions such as cooking energy service parameters. It explains the AIREC cooking...

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Green Technology Needs Assessment and Appropriate Policy Tools cover Green Technology Needs Assessment and Appropriate Policy Tools

E/ESCWA/SDPD/2016/GUIDE (PART I)

The guide serves a dual objective. First, it assists rural development practitioners in assessing green energy needs of rural productive businesses. Second, it helps policymakers use the right...

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Sustainable Energy Access for Rural Areas




ESCWA’ Sustainable Development Policies Division (SDPD) organized a...

Promoting Green Energy Technology Market in Rural Areas



Promoting Green Energy Technology Market in Rural Areas is the title of a workshop ESCWA is organizing on 24-25 May 2016, at the UN-House in Beirut. 

The Workshop, which will...

Promoting Green Energy Technology Market in Rural Areas



Within the context of its work on sustainable energy, energy security, and improving rural livelihoods, the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) is organizing a capacity...

In the Run towards the 3rd Arab Forum on Sustainable Development and the 2nd UN Environment Assembly



Development is a human right that everyone should benefit from, especially the most marginalized and vulnerable groups in the Arab region. This includes people living under occupation and conflict...

Promoting market-driven access to modern energy services in the Arab rural regions



The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia organized on 18-19 April 2016 a two-day expert group meeting at the UN-House in Beirut, under the theme “Promoting market-driven...

Ensuring Access to Modern Energy Services in Rural Areas through the Use of Renewable Energy Technologies – Indian Experience

Appropriate Green Technologies for Enhanced Rural Livelihood



The project aims to strengthen the capacity of countries in the ESCWA Region to mainstream appropriate pro-poor green technology initiatives into national development programmes and policies,...

Training of trainers' workshop on "Mainstreaming Appropriate Renewable Energy Technology in the Rural Productive Sectors of the Arab Region"



Within the context of its work on sustainable energy the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia is organizing four sub-regional training of trainers’ (TOT) workshops on “...
Training of trainers' workshop on "Mainstreaming Appropriate Renewable Energy Technology in the Rural Productive Sectors of the Arab Region"



Within the context of its work on sustainable energy the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia is organizing four sub-regional training of trainers’ (TOT) workshops on "...

Sub-regional training of trainers' workshops on "Mainstreaming Appropriate Renewable Energy Technology in the Rural Productive Sectors of the Arab Region"



Within the context of its work on sustainable energy the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia is organizing four sub-regional training of trainers' (TOT) workshops on “...
Training of trainers' workshop on "Mainstreaming Appropriate Renewable Energy Technology in the Rural Productive Sectors of the Arab Region"



Within the context of its work on sustainable energy the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia is organizing four sub-regional training of trainers’ (TOT) workshops on “...
Methodology for Mainstreaming Appropriate Green Technology Initiatives in Rural Areas of the Arab Region





Within the context of its work on sustainable energy the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia organized a two-day expert group meeting (EGM) on "Methodology for...

Seminar on the Environmental Situation in the Electricity Sector in the Arab Countries (in cooperation with LAS)