📋 Tender Overview
Project ID
180301
Thematic Priority
Safeguarding the Environment
LocationGlobal
Project ManagerMartin LUGMAYR
Donor
Austria
Fund
EURO Trust Funds
Gender Marker2A (Significant expected contribution to GE)
The project aims to accelerate the energy transition in developing countries by making the Global Network of Regional Sustainable Energy Centres (GN-SEC) a unique multi-stakeholder platform for south-south and triangular cooperation from the regions for the regions . During implementation, the GN-SEC will become an internationally acknowledged SDG accelerator, particularly contributing to the progress towards SDG-7, 9, 12 and 13. It will serve as a best practice example for enhanced means of implementation for the Agenda 2030 in line with SDG-17 and the outcomes of the 2nd High-level United Nations Conference on South-South Co-operation (BAPA +40), held in Buenos Aires in March 2019.The GN-SEC model will showcase how regional institutional capacities and integration can address global cross-border challenges more effectively and at lower cost. Based on ownership and leadership of the centres and the respective regional economic communities (RECs), the GN-SEC is an advocate for just and inclusive energy transition, particularly addressing the needs of least developed countries (LDCs) and small island developing states (SIDS).The project will build on the achievements of the GN-SEC program since 2010 and provide resources to consolidate the network of centres and upscale the intra-regional and global south-south and triangular (SSTC) activities. Over the past ten years, UNIDO has assisted the regional economic communities (RECs) in the Global South in the establishment and operation of sustainable energy centres, which act as institutional facilitators for SSTC activities within the respective region and beyond. The GN-SEC platform facilitates triangular cooperation activities between the individual centres, regions, as well as partners of the Global North and multilateral level. The GN-SEC offers the opportunity to test, demonstrate and roll-out latest technology, policy and business model innovations in various regions simultaneously.The project mobilises the required financial and human capacities for the GN-SEC platform to further expand the network of centres and to upscale its SSTC cooperation activities. Since the GN-SEC platform is already operational and operated by a part-time UNIDO team, no specific start-up process is required. During the project period, the platform will continue to provide traditional services aiming at the creation of new or the strengthening of existing centres, and will upscale the facilitation of south-south and triangular (SSTC) activities on demand-driven sustainable energy solutions. The results framework of the project document will guide the implementation over the next five years.
