Daey Ouwens Fund

What is the Daey Ouwens Fund?
The Daey Ouwens Fund aims to provide more people in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) with access to energy by promoting small-scale projects in the area of renewable and job-creating forms of energy supply. The Daey Ouwens Fund fits into the Netherland's wider goal of contributing towards the achievement of the United Nations' eight Millennium Development Goals. The fund focuses particularly on:

• Goal 1 (eradicating extreme poverty and hunger) and
• Goal 7 (creating a sustainable environment).

Kees Daey Ouwens
Prof. Kees Daey Ouwens (1936-2007) left a significant mark on Dutch sustainable energy policy. At the age of nineteen he built the first Dutch solar cell, and soon became a specialist in the area of solar and wind energy, hydropower and biomass. Daey Ouwens worked as an energy expert for Shell, Philips, ECN (the Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands) and the government. He viewed the transition to a sustainable energy supply, both in the Netherlands and in developing countries, as the main objective of his work, believing that the transition in developing countries could also make a contribution towards combating poverty. He believed that, "If we really dedicate ourselves to achieving this goal, we can achieve it within thirty years".

The subsidy is granted on behalf of the ministry of Foreign Affairs.

More information you can find on the website of the Daey Ouwens Fund.