Niger - Improved stoves project

Joint UNDP/World Bank Energy Secor Management Assistance Program Activky Completion Report No. 080/87 Country: NIGER Activity: IMROVED STOVES PROJECT DECEMBER 1987 Repor of the Joit UNDP/Vbvd Bank Eney Sector Management AWstance Proam This document has a restricted distnbution. Its contents mafy not be disosed without authorization from the Govermnent, the UNDP or the World Bank.  <.~~~- 3 -, .,- SECTOR O O kSECTORASSISTANCE PROi> W - ..- 0" Purpoqe' - Tejoint UD/~l Bank -n4 Th< World Bknergy Se,96r Management Assistance, - Program (ESMAP) 4A46 started inn 1983 as a compawion to thb. Energy Asaessment Program, estaMLisied' in 198G. The. Aspessment ProgFAm was designed to ,identify, and, gnalyze the most serious energy probten ^in.- developing countries.* ESMAP was 'designed as &8pre-4nvestment -facility,,, -'part,l'y to assist' in' implementing -the- actions 'reco_nte. in *.the Asses'smentso Tbday- ESMAP carries out pre-investment activitie''in 'o 45 countries, and provides institutional and, polic, advice to dev'eloping- country decision-makers, Ohie Program aims. to, tipplement, advance, i ,d 7 . .strngthn te imaqtof-bilateral- and multilateral 'resour es. a,r adf available for- technical assistance in -the energy sector., The reports - 'produied' undet the ESMAP Program peovide -governments, donorgs, and: potential inveptors with information needed, to -speed up project prepar-. .. , ation and i7eentation. ESMAP activities fall into'two majbr' grQupings: ''~ergy Efficier and St- aegy, addressing the institutional, .rinancial,, and poti issues of the energy sector, includitig 'design of sector strategies, improving energy end-uoe, def-ining?' X : investment ptbgrams, and strengthening-'sector enterprises; and '-~-- Household,.. Rural, and Renewable b ergy, addretsing the' tech- .nical# Pcnomict, financial, institutional'ndo policy c is8ue9 afEecting energy supply and - demand, including energy from traditional 'and oa ern -sources for u by.' rurall and urban - hous*holds and rural industrie ^' ; , .- , - .. 4 . ~~~~~~~F.undin,g. - ^ ; The Program is'a major international effort supported by the UNDP, the World Bank, and bilatiral ae