Geospatial electrification training at the EMPA 2019
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19 participants from 13 countries attended the training on geo-spatial electrification planning
On January 14th – January 31st 2019, the second Energy Modelling Platform for Africa (
EMPA
) conference took place at
UCT
in Cape Town, South Africa. The EMP-A 2019 was organized and supported by a number of stakeholders, including
UNECA
, the
World Bank
,
ACPC
, KTH-dESA,
UCT
,
Makerere University
,
Addis Ababa Institute of Technology
,
OpTIMUS
,
African Union
,
African Development Bank
,
UNDP
,
UNDESA
,
DFID
,
WRI
,
University of Cambridge
,
African Union Commission
,
Florence School
and
Facebook
. At the EMP-A,19 participants from 13 countries attended the training on geo-spatial electrification planning held by researchers from KTH-dESA, developing geo-spatial analyses from scratch using the
OnSSET
tool. A few participants also presented their results at the High-Level Strategic Dialogue (HLSD) that took place at the last two days of the EMP-A. Overall the training participants and the attendees of the HLSD expressed the importance of these kind of initiatives and trainings to build capacity.
More information available
here
.