Khalid Salmi

Regional Center for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (RCREEE)

The Regional Center for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (RCREEE) is an intergovernmental organization with diplomatic status that aims to enable and increase the adoption of renewable energy and energy efficiency practices across Pan-Arab countries and is the Official technical arm institution of both League of Arab State – Energy Department and Arab Ministerial Council for Electricity (AMCE). RCREEE teams-up with governments, international organizations, IFIs and Private Sector via several forms of partnerships to initiate and lead clean energy policy dialogues, strategies, technologies, managing the facilitation of RE investment platforms and capacity development in order to increase Arab states' share of tomorrow's modern energy solutions. Having today 17 Arab countries among its members, RCREEE strives to lead renewable energy and energy efficiency initiatives and expertise in all Arab states based on its strategic plan approved by its Board of Trustees. RCREEE Secretariat has several multidisciplinary teams across Sustainable Energy and Climate Action sub-sectors with multicultural teams diversified across Arab and International professionals. RCREEE, via its Secretariat - is a financially autonomous organization. The main source of finance is generated via comprehensive portfolios of programmes and partnerships via development agreements with DFIs, Third Party Contract, and Innovative Climate-Finance Programmes, and is also holding the fiduciary responsibility and all related legal jurisdiction of Center. RCREEE is organized as an independent regional organization with international legal status and organizational structure as per the organization's Charta. The Charta stipulates a three-tier structure with a Member States' assembly ("Board of Trustees"), an executive committee ("Executive Committee") and a secretariat ("Secretariat") that is headed by the RCREEE Executive Director.