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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><strong>Welcome to the <a href="March">March</a> issue of the HEDON newsletter.</strong><br><br>In this issue:<br>HEDON platform features of the month<br>Latest news from around the World<br>Events<br>Jobs<br>Courses<br><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><h4>HEDON features of the month<o:p></o:p></h4><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>This month HEDON hosted a London Regional Interest Group Event on ‘BP62: Access to Finance’ to discuss finance issues and models around energy access and hear from Emma Wilson (IIED) led a discussion on finance issues and models around energy access. We were joined by a range of people working in the sector and others interested in learning more about this topic. Please join us at our next RIG which will be held in May on ‘BP63: Energy Service Delivery Models’. <o:p></o:p></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2'>Boiling Point is looking for sponsors for our next issue BP63: Energy Service Delivery Models. Sponsoring Boiling Point will benefit your organisation by providing you with pages in our journal to communicate your news and projects to our worldwide online and print readership. HEDON reaches practitioners in the developing world who value Boiling Point as a free hard copy source of information on energy access. Please contact boilingpoint@hedon.info if you would like more information on this opportunity. <o:p></o:p></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'>Meet a HEDON team member at the ODI ‘Women and Girls’ Economic Empowerment’ Event on Tuesday 18 March. To register for the event, visit: <a href="http://www.odi.org.uk/events/3902-women-girls-economic-empowerment-measuring-results" target="_blank">http://www.odi.org.uk/events/3902-women-girls-economic-empowerment-measuring-results</a> <o:p></o:p></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><h2>News<o:p></o:p></h2><h3><a href="http://hedon.info/article3029">REEEP participates in special event on stakeholder engagement to fast track grid projects in India</a><o:p></o:p></h3><p>Published: 10:35 UTC<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), in association with Department for International Development, UK (DFID) REEEP as knowledge partner, organized a special event on stakeholder engagement to fast track grid connected projects under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) on February 5th, during the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS).<br><br>This event was part of a broader consultation to develop a roadmap for the larger and faster implementation program on solar energy sector, supported by DFID, TERI and REEEP.<o:p></o:p></p></div><h3><a href="http://hedon.info/article3028">Over $600,000 released to improve productivity of Senegalese businesses and benefit rural communities </a><o:p></o:p></h3><p>Published: 10:21 UTC<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Grant funding will be used to support thirteen Senegalese businesses in several sectors to enhance their productivity and boost economic activities through improved provision of energy.<o:p></o:p></p></div><h3><a href="http://hedon.info/article3027">Renewable energy powers rural Nepal into the future</a><o:p></o:p></h3><p>Published: 10:00 UTC<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>The micro hydro initiative is meeting the energy needs of Nepal's rural communities and powering their economic development.<o:p></o:p></p></div><h3><a href="http://hedon.info/article3026">Pioneers of low-carbon, climate-resilient development share progress</a><o:p></o:p></h3><p>Published: Mon 17 of Mar., 2014 19:01 UTC<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Governments from Africa and Asia that are shifting to low-carbon, climate-resilient development pathways will share their progress on 20-21 March at a meeting in Ethiopia organised by IIED and Echnoserve.<o:p></o:p></p></div><h3><a href="http://hedon.info/article3025">Caribbean biogas company to provide energy from waste to housing development in Jamaica</a><o:p></o:p></h3><p>Published: Mon 17 of Mar., 2014 18:31 UTC<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>CaribShare, a social enterprise delivering energy-from-waste solutions has signed a contract to power a new housing development in Jamaica. The deal will help to strengthen the livelihoods of rural communities through sustainable waste management and clean energy generation.<o:p></o:p></p></div><h3><a href="http://hedon.info/article3023">ESMAP develops Renewable Energy Project Resource Center with help from REEEP</a><o:p></o:p></h3><p>Published: Mon 17 of Mar., 2014 17:03 UTC<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Renewable energy is making rapid inroads in developing countries, with investment reaching US$112 billion in 2012, representing 46 percent of total global investment in renewable energy. Yet even with this growth in activity, investors, developers, and other practitioners still operate in an information vacuum when it comes to easily finding practical examples of financing and implementation of renewable energy projects.<o:p></o:p></p></div><h3><a href="http://hedon.info/article3021">Kenya’s first Modern Biomass Jiko Factory</a><o:p></o:p></h3><p>Published: Wed 12 of Mar., 2014 14:06 UTC<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>BURN Manufacturing Co., GE & OPIC invest KSh 500 million in Kenya’s first Modern Biomass Jiko Factory in Kiambu County. Factory will manufacture 3.7 million jikos in the next 10 years.<o:p></o:p></p></div><h2>Events<o:p></o:p></h2><h3><a href="http://hedon.info/article3024">The Adoption Gap: design, development and diffusion of household energy technologies </a><o:p></o:p></h3><div><p class=MsoNormal>March 28, 2014<br>New Haven<br>Connecticut<o:p></o:p></p></div><h3><a href="http://hedon.info/article3017">Africa photovoltaic solar energy conference and exhibition </a><o:p></o:p></h3><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>27-29 March 2014<br>Durban International Convention Centre<br>Durban, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa<br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div><h3><a href="http://hedon.info/article3022">RELACCX 2014</a><o:p></o:p></h3><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>24-04-2014 to 25-04-2014,<br>Fajardo,<br>Puerto Rico<o:p></o:p></p></div><h2>Jobs<o:p></o:p></h2><h3><a href="http://hedon.info/article3007">Sales and Marketing manager wanted</a><o:p></o:p></h3><p>End Date: Fri 06 of Mar., 2015<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>SunFire Solutions is looking for dynamic driven individual (s..?) to join this young Company and drive sales for South Africa's best established Solar Cooker Company, based in Johannesburg but working Nationally and Internationally.<o:p></o:p></p></div><h2>Courses<o:p></o:p></h2><h3><a href="http://hedon.info/article2957">Energy Management in Small and Medium Scale Industries course</a><o:p></o:p></h3><p>End Date: Thu 01 of May, 2014<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><strong>Date:</strong><br>October 27 – December 5, 2014<br><strong>Location:</strong><br>University of Twente, Netherlands<o:p></o:p></p></div><h3><a href="http://hedon.info/article3019">Introduction to a Green Economy - Concepts and Applications, 5th Edition</a><o:p></o:p></h3><p>End Date: Thu 25 of June, 2015<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>14 Apr - 06 Jun 2014<br>8 weeks<br>Web-based course<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=3 width="100%" align=center></div><p class=MsoNormal>''Keep your profile up-to-date by <a href="http://www.hedon.info/login">signing<br>in</a>, and refreshing your personal profile at <a href="http://www.hedon.info/tikiuser_%3cbr%20/%3einformation.php">"My HEDON"</a> or your<br><a href="http://www.hedon.info/Organizations">organization description</a>. 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