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Petroleum Gas Rural Energy Challenge - Clean Energy For Development

Project name: Liquefied Petroleum Gas Rural Energy Challenge - Clean Energy For Development

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What's the situation ?
It was determined that the usage of solid fuels (wood, dung) instead of modern energy alternatives was high especially in the rural areas due to factors like economical conditions, education and level of awareness, accessibility. The positive effect of access to modern energy on issues like human and environment health, education, comfort conditions, and production is not negligible. UNDP and WLPGA have undertaken similar projects in Ghana, Honduras, South Africa, Morocco, Vietnam and China. It is expected that, with the studies made with the cooperation of all of the related groups, the positive developments observed in these countries can be observed in Turkey also, and development in both the LPG sector and also the living conditions in the rural areas is targeted.

What's our mission?
The foundation of the project was laid during the August-September months of the year 2002 at the World Summit on Sustainable Development which was performed in Johannesburg-South Africa, and the initiative was launched in October 2002 at Bangkok-Thailand.

The ‘Liquefied Petroleum Gas Rural Energy Challenge’ project has started in 2002 in 6 countries by United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and World LPG Association (WLPGA). To reach a large community in this field, it was proposed to call this project initiates in Turkey as the ‘Clean Energy for Development’ ~ under the LPG Rural Energy Challenge Programme of UNDP.

The target of the “Clean Energy for Development” project is, by promoting the usage of LPG in Turkey especially in rural areas where LPG usage is either none or very little, to support the social development in these regions, to provide a healthy life to the individuals of the public, and to enable local development in accordance with the principles of sustainable development, and to create job opportunities.

How are we doing this?
With the awareness that the most important reasons why the LPG usage is either none or very little in the rural areas are, insufficient information on safe usage, lack of consumer awareness, inefficient audits, and the most important is the taxation strategies on LPG. The project executers expect to remove all of these obstacles and support development by increasing the living quality particularly of women in the rural areas with the projects that will be formed with the cooperative studies of the related groups and stakeholders around the frame of the “Clean Energy for Development Project”.

Expected Outcomes	TARGETS	ACTIVITIES
LPG finds a place within Turkey’s sustainable energy policies	Preparation of the necessary legal arrangements by including the LPG usage in rural areas into the Sustainable Development Program developed by the State Planning Organization (SPO). Determination of the appropriate level of tax support on the LPG that will be used in the rural areas. Including the LPG usage in rural areas in the scope of the State’s social responsibility. Ensuring the cooperation between the public, related departments and local authorities.	Formation of necessary platforms for coordination. Determination of possible obstacles by performing a general analysis on the situation. Formation of technical solution groups for the determined obstacles. Determination, testing and application of process monitoring and evaluation mechanism.
LPG becomes more widely available in rural areas	Improvement of economical and social structure Job creation Sustainable- and appropriate- income sources Education Financing opportunities Providing tax support in the rural areas Pilot Applications Establishing cooperation between the public, related departments and local authorities Cooperation with the NGO’s Enabling the Corporate Social Responsibility of the Sector Development of physical and technical infrastructure Raising awareness on the energy efficiency in LPG usage	Formation of a frame for selecting the pilot projects. Performing introductory meetings for determination of pilot projects Providing technical support services required by the project stakeholders Ensuring that the stakeholders can access the necessary people and institutions for easy-access to information on application program. Selection of the projects to be applied. Monitoring the projects. Sharing the derived lessons report prepared by the output from the applied projects with the required authorities, evaluation of the output and if required supporting with legal arrangements Repeating the successful projects at different points.

Who are our partners?
In Turkey, the Steering Committee of the project that is run by WLPGA and TLPGA under the leadership of UNDP consists of Güngör Azim Tuna as the Head of LPG Department of the Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EMRA), Mehmet Ali Neyzi as the Chairman of TLPGA, Selim Şiper as the Deputy Chairman of TLPGA, and Katalin Zaim as the UNDP Program Director.

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LPG Background Report Video on Challenges Faced in Rural Areas Due to Lack of Modern Energy Use

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