The Italian Multi-stakeholder Platform and the guidelines for "Energy and Development"

Abstract

In line with the national and international context, where energy emerges as a means for development, and not an end in itself, the definition of strategic objectives and implementing strategies for energy and development needs to be based on an inclusive and integrated approach including all the implications of energy on social, economic and environmental dimensions. Looking at the Italian perspective, the UNESCO Chair in Energy for Sustainable Development at the Department of Energy has launched a new initiative, by proposing the activation of a ‘Multi-stakeholder Platform for Energy in Development’, to define a first national pilot experience of multi-actors collaborations including institutional and private sectors, civil society, academic and research sectors. The overall objective of the Platform is to identify, formulate and validate energy intervention strategies in line with the SDG7. In May 2016, the Platform has started the elaboration of the ‘Guidelines for projects in Energy & Development’. The guidelines contribute to define a national framework for planning energy projects in the development cooperation, referring to the best practices existing in the international framework.