For the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP), 2004 was a year of accomplishments and a year of transition. The Program concluded its 2002-2004 Business Plan with a strong focus on energy-poverty activities, environmental…
The Consultative Group (CG) for the Energy Trust-Funded Programs
managed by the World Bank met in Washington, DC on March 15-16, 2004. Mr. Jamal
Saghir, the World Bank’s Director for Energy and Water and Chair of the World Bank’s
Energy…
The report presents the status of ongoing Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) projects for the six-month period ending June 30, 2003. Its primary audience is the community of ESMAP donors and partners.
Twenty million people (about half of Central America´s population) cook primarily with biomass using open fires or rudimentary stoves. Approximately 86 percent of the biomass users are concentrated in Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua,…