Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:
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Economic and Social:
Climate Change
Development
Energy
Environment
Public Administration:
Knowledge Systems and E-government
Sustainable Development:
Atmosphere
Climate change
Desertification and Drought
Energy
Industrial development
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| Geographic scope: |
Regional
Africa
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| Country of activity: |
Cameroon
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| Millennium Development Goals: |
Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Achieve universal primary education
Ensure environmental sustainability
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| Year established: |
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| Year of registration: |
2001 |
| Organizational structure: |
Afrisolar develops political and economic plans of action and concepts, including legal frameworks, for the introduction of Renewable Energies. All political, scientific, technological and industrial expertise and grass-roots commitments are important parts of Afrisolar’s platform and produce concrete guidelines, proposals and mandates for action.
Afrisolar promotes a broad based socio-cultural movement in support of Renewable Energies, the mobilizing of new political and industrial forces as well as environmentally sustainable architecture. Afrisolar arranges high-profile conference series such as:
- the Integration of Strategy of Solar Energy for the Fight against Poverty;
- African Forum for Renewable Energy and Environment Protection (AFREEP);
- African conference on “Solar Energy in Architecture and Urban Planning”
- Conferences on “Biomass for Energy and Basic Materials and New Agriculture”
- “Solar cookers for the ecology prevention”.
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| Number and type of members: |
- conducting its works independently of political parties, institutions, commercial enterprises and interest groups;
- promoting the total solar energy supply as essential for a sustainable economy;
- acting to change conventional political priorities and common infrastructures in favour of Renewable Energies, from the local to the African level;
- bringing together expertise from the fields of politics, industry, science and culture to promote the introduction of solar energy;
- offering everyone the chance to play a part in the socio-cultural movement for the Renewable Energies by joining the Association;
- seeing its objectives as a realistic and futuristic vision – a goal of the century for all mankind. |
| Affiliation with NGO networks: |
Observer at IRENA (International renewable energy agency) |
| Funding structure: |
Membership fees or dues
Donations and grants from domestic sources
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| Funding structure other: |
Membership fees, council funding |
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