UNSD and the African Energy Commission (AFREC, an organ of the African Union) organized a regional bioenergy workshop in Lomé, Togo, from 24 to 26 April 2023. The event followed up from the June 2021 "International Workshop on Improving Bioenergy Monitoring and Reporting in Africa" held virtually by UNSD, AFREC and the International Energy Agency. The 2021 workshop consolidated the Strategic Framework for the African Bioenergy Data Management (AFBIDM), whose roadmap/action plan called for this validation workshop.
Over half of Africa's energy demand is met by traditional bioenergy, and the percentage of solid fuel (charcoal and fuelwood) used in the region is the highest in the world. Production and consumption of bioenergy has direct impacts on health (indoor pollution), biodiversity, water and soil quality, as well as on a number of social and economic aspects of primary relevance for developing countries. Improving the
measurement of bioenergy in Africa is an imperative to tracking SDG 7 and its interlinkages to other SDGs.
Representatives from Statistical Offices and Energy Authorities of ten African countries participated in the workshop. Presentations focused on the motivation, importance and impacts of traditional bioenergy use in Africa; mitigation actions to reduce such impacts; best practices in data collection, including survey questionnaires; linkages to policy and
advocacy to policymakers; as well as outreach. Participants shared national experiences on each topic.
Documentation for the meeting
Presentation Materials
- Biofuels/bioenergy/biomass energy according to IRES, Leonardo Souza, UNSD
- Place of biomass in Africa, Jean-Yves Garnier, AFREC
- Role of biomass in Africa and impacts of biofuels consumption on various sectors, Agnieszka Koscielniak, UNSD
- Role of biomass in Africa and impacts of biofuels consumption on various sectors, Jean-Yves Garnier, AFREC
- Biofuels consumption data: What data are needed?, Agnieszka Koscielniak, UNSD
- Bioenergy consumption data : What data are needed?, Abdoulaye Oueddo, AFREC
- Biofuels production and transformation data, Leonardo Souza, UNSD
- Bioenergy production data: What data are needed?, Abdoulaye Oueddo, AFREC
- Methods for grossing up, modelling and projections, Leonardo Souza, UNSD
- Good and best practices for releasing the data, Agnieszka Koscielniak, UNSD
- Improving data quality and coverage on the impacts of biofuels consumption on various key sectors, Leonardo Souza, UNSD
- Cote d'Ivoire: English French
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Group 1 brainstorming:
First presentation
Second presentation
- Kenya
- Mozambique
- Nigeria
- Group 2 brainstorming:
First presentation
Second presentation
- Group 3 brainstorming:
First presentation
Second presentation
- How to best extract the right messages from the data, Jean-Yves Garnier, AFREC
- A few thoughts, Jean-Yves Garnier, AFREC
Presentations by AFREC and UNSD
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Opening Session and Welcome Words
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Biofuels in Africa
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Biofuels consumption data
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Biofuels production
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Improving data
Countries and Country Groups
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Group 1
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Group 2
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Conclusions