Energy Ministers discuss energy investments and access-Plan 7 Rome

5. Noting that problems of energy access are exacerbated in Africa
though the continent has a great fossil fuels resources and renewable
energy potential, we, the Energy Ministers

a) encourage the mobilization of increased financing for addressing
the problem of energy access throughout Africa;
b) endorse the existing energy access initiatives and programmes by
the World Bank for the African continent and their scaling-up,
supporting in particular the Scaling-Up Renewable Energy Program as a
part of the Climate Investment Fund set up under the World Bank;
c) support the Global Bioenergy Partnership as effective means to
promote wider, cost effective biomass and biofuels deployment;
d) support African initiatives and programs undertaken in the energy
sector, namely the African Union/NEPAD Infrastructure programme and
the work done by the African Energy Commission;
e) call for better co-ordination of existing and on-going programmes
and initiatives and transfer of the best practice through the
infrastructure consortium for Africa;
f) support initiatives to combat energy poverty, including the
initiative of (The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques) King Abdullah
Bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia launched during the Jeddah Energy
Meeting of 2008.
g) Ask the African Development Bank, the World Bank, the European
Investment Bank, the Energy Charter Secretariat, the OPEC Fund for
International Development and others to prepare a strategy for the
development of energy networks and corridors and assuring transits
towards the integration of national energy markets in Africa, while
identifying financing mechanisms.
h) promote regional initiatives aimed at developing local energy
resources and making them deployable in a wide context.

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