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Access to energy services in West Africa
• • • ECOWAS and UEMOA regional policy to reach the Millennium Development Goals • • •

"The populations are deprived of economic opportunities because they don’t have access to or cannot afford adequate energy services. In short, it is needless to say that our populations deserve better and we have to free them form these hardships. All those who wish to take a commitment so that the Millennium Development objectives be not solely a condition of the economic growth of our economies will agree with that." (Dr. Mohamed Ibn Chambas - ECOWAS Executive Secretary - extract from White Paper forewords)

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A political vision and expected results

The Member States and the Region have decided to engage on an ambitious regional policy in order to increase access to modern energy services. In that process, their objective is to allow at least half of the population to have access to modern energy services by the year 2015.

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