The Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) and the Latin American Energy Organization (OLADE), hosted a consultation workshop for stakeholders titled ‘Human Resources Management, Energy Statistics & Planning Awareness’ yesterday at the Pegasus Hotel, Georgetown.
A release yesterday from the GEA said that the workshop was conceptualized under the frame work of the ‘Caribbean Energy Statistics Capacity Enhancement Project’ which has been implemented and supported by OLADE and the International Development Association of the World Bank. The Project’s main objective is to improve energy statistics planning and management capacity and to implement National Energy Information Systems in five Caribbean countries – Belize, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, and Suriname. The key output – the implementation of a National Energy Information Management System is expected to be in place by mid-2019.
With Guyana being one of the beneficiary countries of the Project, the main purpose of the workshop was to advise participants of :- the overall project, the requirements for information management and energy planning, as well as human resources management and energy statistics.