Speciality
Project DevelopmentKnowledge ManagementCapacity Building
Overview
Energy for All Initiative is part of ADB's Energy Policy of providing reliable, adequate, and affordable energy for its developing member countries in a socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable way.
With majority of the world's energy poor living in Asia and the Pacific, ADB aims to maximize energy for all, especially the rural poor, and founded the Energy for All Initiative to strengthen its investments and increase its project portfolio in energy access. The initiative develops and maintains streams approaches for scaling up acccess to affordable, modern and clean energy among the region's poor.
Within the initiative, ADB launched the Energy for All Partnership, a regional platform for cooperation, knowledge and technical exchange and project developing bringing together key stake-holders from private sector, financial institutions, governments, bilateral, multilateral and non-governmental development partners.
The Partnership aims to provide access to safe, clean, affordable modern energy to an additional 100 million people in the region by 2015.