CIF Partnership forum

June; 2010
The SREP subcommittee meeting has been conducted in Washington DC, USA between June 19 and 29, 2010 to review and approve the selection of Pilot countries and the SREP financing modality. The venue was held in the World Bank Bank conference center. Over the meeting, several milestones were achieved including the selection of five pilot countries and the finalization of the SREP financing modalities. Ethiopia has been selected as one of the five pilot countries.

Ato Ambachew F. Admassie, SREP observer for the private sector, actively participated in the meeting. He said, “It is a big opportunity to test run any resolve in renewable energy diversification, and certainly the private sector gets one more line to participate in”, and asked abut the sustainability, he said “ obviously sustainability demands inclusive role of all stakeholders including meaningful engagement of the private sector from the design to the effective implementation”. He also applauded EPA’s move saying “Naturally expression of interest by interested eligible country is a first but decisive step in being selected as a pilot country”.