Biogas for a better life : an African initiative
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Abstract:
A better life for two million households in Africa through implementation of domestic biogas plants was the ambitious target set at a May 2007 conference in Nairobi, Kenya, organized by the Biogas Africa Initiative. A national programme has already been started in Rwanda, while 10 other countries have started preparations. Generally speaking, biogas initiatives in Africa failed to grow from a product-based project approach implemented by a single actor towards a market-oriented programme approach in which various actors co-operate on the basis of institutional arrangements. An exception is Tanzania, where most of the plants in Africa have been built on a semi-commercial basis. But even here, a large-scale dissemination could not be achieved. More than 10 follow-up actions from the conference in Nairobi are to be implemented before the next conference in May 2008, including: (1) three to five countries will start implementation; (2) a website on the Biogas Africa Initiative (www.biogasafrica.org) will be maintained; and (3) desk and feasibility studies will be conducted in other countries.
Authors:
Nes, W.J. van
,
Nhete, T.D.
Book or source title:
Renewable Energy World
Country:
Burkina Faso
,
Ethiopia
,
Ghana
,
Kenya
,
Mali
,
Rwanda
,
Senegal
,
South Africa
,
Sudan
,
Tanzania, United Republic of
,
Uganda
Category:
General
End Page:
187
Serial number:
July–August
Keywords:
energy resources
,
sustainable development
Language:
eng
Organization:
SNV - Netherlands Development Organisation
Place:
[The Hague]
Publisher:
Netherlands Development Organisation (SNV)
Year:
2007
Region:
Africa South of Sahara
Right:
© 2007 SNV
Subject:
Environment and Natural Resources
Start Page:
184
Title:
Biogas for a better life : an African initiative