REEEP invests in clean energy markets to help developing countries expand modern energy services and improve lives; increase prosperity and economic dynamism; and keep CO2 emissions in check - markets that accelerate green growth. REEEP?s tools are modern clean energy technologies - renewable energy and energy efficiency - market forces, and knowledge management.
The challenge is clear: current climate and emissions trends are bleak. This reality exists largely because of the consumption patterns that supported growth in developed economies. If developing nations follow this path, CO2 emissions will continue to increase dramatically. However, development is the only option.
Today 870 million people worldwide are undernourished, 1 billion lack access to safe water, and 1.3 billion do not have access to electricity.

Industrialized nations have committed to raising $100 billion annually in financing by 2020 to help developing nations combat climate change and its effects. The question remains how to mobilise, distribute, and utilise this financing so that economies profit, development is enabled, energy access is widespread, and low-carbon principles become standard practice.

REEEP is an international NGO founded by a coalition of governments at the World Summit for Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002.

Based on a strategic portfolio of high impact projects (nearly two hundred since 2004) REEEP works to generate energy access, improve lives and economic opportunities, build sustainable markets, and combat climate change. REEEP understands clean energy markets from a practice, policy, and financial perspective. We seek and support high potential projects that can validate promising business models and technologies. We monitor and evaluate projects to understand market opportunities and barriers to success. Our insight influences policy, increases public and private investment, and informs our portfolio of projects that can be shared and replicated within and across markets.

To best support the growth of clean energy markets in developing countries, REEEP focuses on developing insights, nurturing networks and creating impact in three focal areas: Smart Cities, Energy Access, and Cross-Sector Systems. Within these areas, REEEP has further focused our portfolio to target high-potential, high-return sectors, technologies, business models and markets. Each of these represents a Pathway for REEEP to drive market change (see http://www.reeep.org/focal-areas for more).

REEEP is committed to open access to knowledge to support entrepreneurship, innovation, and policy improvements, and empower market shifts across the developing world. Access to knowledge is essential for growing markets from the bottom up. REEEP supports the SDGs in a number of ways, e.g. energy access, eradicating poverty, combatting climate change, achieving food security, increasing health, sustainable water management, economic growth and cities; environmental protection, justice and peace and global partnership solutions. Our Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Agrifood Pathway is an programme example that promotes targets across multiple SDGs, focusing on the critical need for investment in agricultural value chains in developing countries, specifically those that use water and energy resources sustainably. The sector is hugely important for ensuring food security for rapidly growing populations, and providing economic security people participating at various stages of agricultural value chains.

The sector is also broadly inefficient at a global scale, and is ripe for innovation to improve productivity and yields, and strengthen resilience. This new agricultural revolution must be clean ? powered by RE and EE systems. Specific RE and EE solutions aimed at developing country agrifood value chains, at the SME level, face challenges that have also faced REs and efficiency in developed countries: high upfront and investment costs, comparatively long payback periods, misunderstood or mistrusted novel technologies, lack of standards and quality assurance track records, and non-existent or outmoded financing availability.

REEEP?s current portfolio:

? SOLAR POWERED IRRIGATION IN KENYA 1 ? Futurepump: Futurepump offers sustainable irrigation solutions to smallholder farmers, combining a proprietary solar powered irrigation pump with an end-user finance programme that allows for flexible payments for market viability.
? SOLAR POWERED IRRIGATION IN KENYA 2 ? SunCulture: Focusing on a higher-income segment, SunCulture offers a unique one-stop-shop service for farmers in Kenya including agronomic analysis, sustainable solar-powered irrigation systems, and facilitation of loan products via a high-profile local microfinance-focused bank.
? SOLAR POWERED MULTI-USE COLD STORAGE IN UGANDA ? Station Energy: Station Energy offers an affordable solution for off-grid solar PV powered cold storage, a service representing a significant opportunity to improve agricultural production and longevity for farmers and households.
? BIOGAS POWERED AGRICULTURAL PROCESSING IN CAMBODIA ? Nexus C4D: REEEP and Nexus C4D are jointly creating a highly-targeted revolving fund mechanism to provide affordable loans for rice mills looking to switch from diesel electricity generation to rice husk gasification.
? PICO HYDRO POWERED MILLS IN NEPAL ? CEDB: REEEP, CEBD and SNV, are pursuing a new comprehensive model for integrating pico-hydro power into inclusive, community-owned agricultural milling and electrification generation services.
? SOLAR POWERED DAIRY REFRIGERATION IN BANGLADESH ? Enerplus: Enerplus is working with PRAN Dairy to retrofit diesel-powered milk collection centre coolers, a central element of dairy storage for smallholder farmers, with solar PV units, and build new milk collection centres.
? SOLAR POWERED AGRIFOOD PROCESSING IN TANZANIA ? Redavia: Redavia is offering standalone high-output solar PV systems that can be employed in a variety of end uses in frontier markets, paid for via an innovative Pay As You Go model. In Tanzania, the systems are being integrated into agricultural processing applications.
? RENEWABLE ENERGY FARMING SOLUTIONS IN NICARAGUA ? Tecnosol: Tecnosol provides multi-purpose energy solutions to meet a range of needs of small farmers in off-grid areas, including biogasification, solar powered electric fencing, solar water pumps and standalone solar PV.
? EFFICIENT IRRIGATION IN NICARAGUA ? iDEal: iDEal offers a specialised entry-level micro drip irrigation system to farmers to reduce water, fuel and fertilizer needs in smallholder applications. REEEP strategic activities are broken down into three elements:

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REEEP invests in clean energy markets by targeting specifically Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) as drivers of innovation and change in the context of value chains. A value chain approach entails an understanding and analysis of all stages involved in transforming raw materials or other raw inputs into a finished product for sale to end consumers. For REEEP purposes, the value chain is understood to extend beyond individual firms to include all actors involved.

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For REEEP, monitoring and evaluation is more than an instrument for tabulating and verifying results; it permeates and expresses the full spectrum of our strategy for accelerating clean energy markets.
REEEP utilises a mixed methodology approach to monitoring, evaluation and learning (M&E) designed to handle the complexity of the situations our projects are facing on the ground, and help manage and better understand the various types and volumes of information flowing in and out of the project environment.
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The third component is concerned with analysing, processing, and delivering what REEEP has learned through M&E, as well as REEEP?s engagement with other players on improving the modalities and architecture of how this knowledge sharing and transfer takes place.
Commercial intelligence derived from M&E is utilised to improve the processes of other SMEs in the REEEP Portfolio. At the same time, actionable investment intelligence forms concrete investment pipelines for, and/or informs downstream investment activity of, larger investors (multilateral development banks, impact investors, mezzanine funds, etc.). This is a critical de-risking mechanism for specific investors and the investment climate in general.
Practice-based policy recommendations are utilised by partner organisations and decision makers involved in legislation and/or other policy and regulatory development processes. The form of REEEP?s practiced-based policy are determined on a case by case basis.
REEEP follows a multi-tiered approach to sharing and communicating knowledge, beginning with direct collaboration with key partners on commercial and policy intelligence, continuing with data and knowledge-sharing portals, all of which allow open and free access. REEEP also actively promotes broader collaboration among knowledge creators and brokers via its leading role in the Climate Knowledge Brokers Group, which seeks to support evidence-based decision making in climate and development related fields by improving the availability of knowledge.
http://www.reeep.org/annual_report - The REEEP constitutional body is its Meeting of Partners, which includes 354 public and private partners from all over the world.

The organisation is governed by the Governing Board, which is set up in the following way:

Henry Derwent, UK
Alfred Ofosu-Ahenkorah, Ghana
Elfriede More, Austria
Martin Schöpe, Germany
Amal Lee Amin, UK
Kari Bjørnsgaard, Norway
Maher Chebbo, France
Mark Fogarty, Australia
Philip Ischer, Switzerland
Pradeep Monga, India
Piotr Tulej, Poland
Martijn Wilder, Australia REEEPstatutesandcomments3.pdf