In public buildings lighting accounts for about 40% of the electricity costs. If you multiply this figure by the number of kindergartens, schools and universities, town halls, local government buildings and government departments, libraries, swimming pools and hospitals, then the total is enormous. Lighting in public buildings is currently consuming far more energy than necessary, with all the negative side-effects such as high running costs, electricity bottlenecks and damage to the climate. That can easily be changed.

The objectives of the Third Community Action Program (CAP3) Support Project for Niger are: (i) to strengthen the recipient's local development planning and implementation capacities, and (ii) to improve the access of the targeted population to socioeconomic services. The project has 4 components. (1) Capacity building component will ensure capacity building for communes and communities; improving local governance and regional governments; and promoting inter-communal collaboration.

It is clear that, in the face of climate change, the agriculture sector in Africa is being called on to increase food production to meet the food demand for a growing population. A number of countries have prepared National Agriculture and Food Security Investment Plans (NAFSIPs) to integrate the scaling up of practices that augment development, food security, and climate change adaptation and mitigation. This paper proposes a methodology to examine the potential of existing NAFSIPs to generate climate change benefits.