Solar PV
Task 2.5 Global trainings, Community of practice, e-learning
(Lead: UNEP Partners: ICLEI ES, AAMUSTED, ICLEI, WS, MET, NMU, RISE, UR, UNH, UEMI, WI) (M12-M40)
MS5 Global (online) Community of Practice launched M15:
A global online Community of Practice will be launched and maintained that will serve as global capacity building for decision makers, practitioners and business. The Community of Practice will serve as a platform to share knowledge and best experiences, identify experts to answer queries and maintain a database of experts, organizations and businesses on sustainable energy development
Target audience:
Decision makers, practitioners and business
The objective of the community of practice (CoP) is to bring together consortium members and partners working on similar topics regarding sustainable energy development in Africa to enhance knowledge exchange.
Due to the thematic range of topics under SESA there will be three CoPs:
Solar energy
Kenya (test), Ghana (validation), South Africa (validation), Morocco (validation), Namibia (replication), Tanzania (replication), Nigeria (replication), Rwanda (replication)
Clean cooking/Waste to energy
Ghana (validation), Malawi (validation), Rwanda (replication)
E-mobility/Sec
The purpose of the CoPs is to continuously promote the thematic area, facilitate sharing of practices among countries and cities, connect projects with experts, provide information through publishing documentation (presentations, research, market insights and case studies) and provide a virtual forum where consortium members can share project progress and best practices, and therefore provide opportunities to showcase these as part of the sixth component of SESA, aiming to disseminate project progress.
The CoP will collect best practices and tools developed under SESA and disseminate these among the countries in the region.
This will help countries to increase confidence into developing sustainable energy solutions, through:
Peer-to-peer exchange on lessons learnt through pilot projects
Formal & informal dialogues between various projects to facilitate spill-over of knowledge
Networking with other related initiatives in the region
Facilitate scale-up and replication of projects in other countries across Africa
Develop policies, business models and financial schemes
Strengthen capacities for the implementation of sustainable energy projects in Africa
The CoP will consist of consortium partners of each of the living labs as indicated above (core group) plus a range of other consortium partners and externals working on the thematic are (wider CoP). The first task of each CoP will be to prepare a list of core members and choose a CoP coordinator by February 2023. The second task is to develop an expert database by March 2023. This will be led by each of the living lab teams (core group) and consist of technology experts, scientists, academia, finance and policy experts, non-profit organisations, think-tanks, local implementation partners (members of
the consortium), local authorities (associated partners) and innovators (recruited through the seed-funding call).
The third task is to establish partnerships among the wider CoP members identified in the expert database above. The aim of such partnerships is to provide players in the sustainable energy ecosystem in Africa with fresh and innovative ideas that could be put into practice. This can be done through online meetings, invitations to demonstration sites, workshops, and group discussions.
Ongoing tasks of the CoPs
Filtering — Organising and managing important information
Amplifying — Helping to understand important but little known information
Providing — Offering a means to give members the resources they need
Convening — Bringing together different individuals or groups
Community building — Promoting and sustaining values and standards
Learning — Helping to share knowledge and work more efficiently and effectively.
UNEP Sustainable Mobility Unit (UNEP SMU) has established CoP 3 on e-mobility and batteries.
Under its Global Electric Mobility Programme, the Africa Support and Investment Platform convenes key players on e-mobility on the continent, offers capacity building and disseminates knowledge products on everything related e-mobility. It gathers and adapts knowledge developed by the Programmes Global Thematic Working for use by local decision-makers in governments and in private sector to prepare for the introduction and scale-up of electric mobility. This is being done in close cooperation with other EU funded projects such as Solutions Plus and of course SESA. By including a broad stakeholder group from well established public and private organisations, the CoP is in a position to develop knowledge materials covering a wide range of electric mobility, including vehicle manufacturing, charging, and electricity vehicle battery design (including the sourcing of raw materials as well as the re-use, recycling and sound disposal of used batteries).
All knowledge products developed are publicly and freely accessible through an on-line toolbox (emobility.tools). The dissemination of the products of the Platform and Working groups to the SESA projects will take place through technical support, capacity building and training activities that will be organised by the CoP. All SESA partners are invited to participate in these events.
Preparations on the establishment of CoP 1 and 2 to be led by the UNEP Copenhagen Climate Center (UNEP CCC) are ongoing.
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