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-- 2010 ESMAP Annual Report Released 
-- New e-learning course: Tools for improving public sector energy efficiency
-- Cambodia: Women Potters Produce Efficient, Low-smoke Cookstove
-- Lighting Africa: Promoting the Use of High Quality, Clean Electricity
-- Project to Help Tanzanians Turn Crop Waste to Wealth
-- Farm Workers Enjoy the Benefits of Solar Lighting: Kenya

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2010 ESMAP Annual Report Released
ESMAP has just released its 2010 Annual Report, which highlights ESMAP's support to low-and middle-income countries through better informed policy-making, enhanced capacity, and adoption of cutting edge solutions. This year, a review of ESMAP's portfolio also provided a scorecard on results.  Learn more.

New e-learning course: Tools for improving public sector energy efficiency
WBI and ESMAP are now enrolling public sector practitioners from countries across the world for their newly launched e-learning course that equips practitioners with practical tools for saving energy. Energy efficiency is one of the most critical policy tools to helping countries meet the substantial growth in energy demand while easing the environmental impacts of that growth. Learn more.

Cambodia: Women Potters Produce Efficient, Low-smoke Cookstove
An innovative cookstoves project in Cambodia is offering women a healthy cooking option, with support from ESMAP. The stove is designed to use less firewood, concentrate heat, and produce far less smoke than earlier cook stoves. Learn more.

Lighting Africa: Promoting the Use of High Quality, Clean Electricity
Almost 70 percent of Africans are not connected to a power grid. Because of this, Sub-Saharan Africa spends an estimated US$10.5 billion annually on low-quality, fuel-based lighting such as kerosene and candles. With initial support from an ESMAP funded program - Lighting Africa, safe, clean, affordable off-grid lighting has been extended to rural and sub-urban communities. Learn more.

Project to Help Tanzanians Turn Crop Waste to Wealth
Tanzanians are turning crop waste into clean and cheap charcoal briquettes to reduce deforestation. The project is part of a new initiative called the Biomass Energy Initiative for Africa (BEIA) administered by the World Bank Africa Energy Unit, under ESMAP's Africa Renewable Energy Access (AFREA) Trust Fund. Learn more.

Farm Workers Enjoy the Benefits of Solar Lighting: Kenya
Jacinta, 27, is a mother and employed at Olerai Farm in Narok, Kenya. She was able to purchase her solar lights through an easy-to-pay scheme which was facilitated by Lighting Africa through its program which helps connect manufacturers of solar lights to potential beneficiaries. Lighting Africa is a multi donor program funded by ESMAP. Learn more.

• 2010 ESMAP Annual Report
• Lighting Efficiency and Product Design Optimization; and an Interpretation Guidance Note, 2011: By Lighting Africa, an IFC / World Bank/ESMAP program
• Peru: Opportunities and Challenges of Small Hydropower Development. ESMAP Formal Report 340/11
• Unleashing the Potential of Renewable Energy in India, A World Bank Study, 2011