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Within the framework of the imple­mentation of the SEEA-WA pro­ject, a team of experts, led by Mr Martin Lugmayr and Mr Jansenio Delgado from ECREEE, and accompanied by Mr Pe­ter Cattelaens, an expert from the EU Energy Initiative, Partnership Dialogue Facility (EUEI PDF) conducted a stocktaking mission to Guinea Bissau to observe the current status of renewable energy and energy efficiency in the country. The delegation was received by Mr Biabe Siga, Head of the Energy Division at the Ministry of Energy, Guinea-Bissau, who also serves as the ECREEE National Focal Point.

Co-organized by the African De­velopment Bank (AfDB), the first ECOWAS Renewable Energy Invest­ment (EREI) and Business Forum took place on 27–28 September in Dakar, Senegal. This forum which was attended by more than 90 par­ticipants from the ECOWAS Member States, Europe and the USA, brought together financiers, project promot­ers, donors and market analysts in­terested in investment opportunities in renewable energy in the ECOWAS region.

ECREEE and the International Re­newable Energy Agency (IRENA) organized a regional workshop on Energy Planning Methodologies and Tools in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire from 10–12 December 2012.

The workshop aimed to acquaint en­ergy planners in the region with appropri­ate methodologies, using the ECOWAS Renewable Energy Planning model devel­oped by IRENA, based on the MESSAGE modelling tool (software developed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to support national governments in energy planning).