Organization
The IPEEC is an autonomous, independent organization. Specifically, its work program and its financing are separate from that of the OECD and the IEA. The Partnership relies on voluntary contributions (VCs) of IPEEC members and other entities. These VCs include financial as well as in-kind contributions.
IPEEC's technical work program spans several sectors. Member countries lead and participate in dedicated Task Groups that design and implement the IPEEC's technical work program. The Secretariat leads 2 additional technical initiatives. The Task Groups are funded directly by their participating members.
The IPEEC is run by an Executive Committee (ExCo), a Policy Committee (PoCo) and a Secretariat.
Both the Executive Committee (India as current Chair) and the Policy Committee (Canada as current Chair) provide overall guidance on administrative, policy and technical issues. They are made up of representatives of the IPEEC members. The Policy Committee governs the overall framework and policies of the IPEEC, follows the progress of the Task Groups as well as the work of the Executive Committee and the Secretariat.
The Executive Committee examines and adopts the proposals of the member countries and the budget for each year, examines membership requests, provides guidance and oversight to the Secretariat and develops proposals for the Task Groups while reviewing some of the Task Groups’ work.
The Secretariat, working under its Executive Director (currently Amit Bando), is the coordinator of the IPEEC's communications outreach and activities. Its administrative functions include the organization of the meetings of the Policy Committee and the Executive Committee, the screening and forwarding of membership requests to the Executive Committee, and the coordination of IPEEC information (status, activities). In addition, the Secretariat provides overall guidance to IPEEC's technical work program and monitors work progress, while providing critical technical input to several initiatives.
As agreed by the IPEEC members at the meeting in London on 18 December 2008, the Secretariat is hosted at the International Energy Agency in Paris "so that the IPEEC can make full use of the knowledge, experiences and capacity of the IEA". The agreement for this hosting was finalized with the signature of the Memorandum concerning the hosting by the IEA of the Secretariat to the International Partnership for Energy Efficiency Cooperation on May 24, 2009.
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