Lead country
Burkina Faso
Participating countries
Burkina Faso
Project status
Closure
Implementing period
From September 22, 2014 to December 31, 2020
Project ID: 4227
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Technical team
- Energy Programme
Technical area(s)
- Renewable Energy
- Energy access
Sub-area(s)
- Resource: Diesel hybrid
- Resource: Biomass
- Electricity access
Landscape(s)
- Human altered areas
Sub-landscape(s)
- Rural areas
Transformed sector(s)
- Energy
- Oil, gas and fuels
- Agriculture
UNDP role(s)
- Capacity development / Technical assistance
- Convening / Partnerships / Knowledge Sharing
- Optimising financing
Strategy
- Governance
- Finance economy
- Capacity building
Sub-strategy
- Institutional framework
- Partnerships
- Energy finance
- Technical capacity building
- Community capacity building
- Research
Social inclusion
- Smallholder farmers
- Private sector
- Women
Gender equality
- Women's access to and control over resources
- Women's cooperatives and groups
Gender result effectiveness scale
- Gender responsive
Pathway(s)
- Systems pathway
- People pathway
- Sci-tech pathway
Risk reduction target(s)
- Hazard control/mitigation
SDG target(s)
- 7.2 Increase share of global renewable energy
- 13.2 Integrate climate change into national policies, planning
Conventions and protocols
N/A
Private sector(s)
- Capital providers
Hot topic
- Multi-stakeholder collaboration
- Food and agricultural commodities strategy
- Poverty reduction
About this project
Description
The project aims to validate the potential of Greenhouse Gas reduction through the promotion of Jatropha Curcas oil as a substitute to Diesel in Burkina-Faso.
Objectives
Develop the potential of Greenhouse Gas reduction through the promotion of Jatropha oil as a substitute to Diesel in Burkina-Faso.
USD $1,363,636
Grant amount
USD $15,050,000
Leveraged amount (co-financing)
1
Source(s) of fund
Sources of fund
- Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($1,363,636)
Implementing partner(s)
- Government of Burkina Faso
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