up, supporting in particular the Scaling-Up Renewable Energy Program as a part of the Climate Investment Fund set up under the World Bank; c) support the Global Bioenergy Partnership as effective means to promote wider, cost effective biomass and biofuels deployment; d) support African initiatives and programs undertaken in the energy sector, namely the African Union/NEPAD Infrastructure programme and the work done by the African Energy Commission; e) call for better co-ordination of existing and on-going programmes and initiatives and transfer of the best practice through the infrastructure consortium for Africa; f) support initiatives to combat energy poverty, including the initiative of (The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques) King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia launched during the Jeddah Energy Meeting of 2008. g) Ask the African Development Bank, the World Bank, the European Investment Bank, the Energy Charter Secretariat, the OPEC Fund for International Development and others to prepare a strategy for the development of energy networks and corridors and assuring transits towards the integration of national energy markets in Africa, while identifying financing mechanisms. h) promote regional initiatives aimed at developing local energy resources and making them deployable in a wide context. --MORE
