The objective of the Additional Financing for the Southern African Power Pool Program for Accelerating Transformational Energy Projects parent project, SAPP AREP, is to advance the preparation of selected priority regional energy projects in the SAPP participating countries.1 The program was designed to address the lack of project preparation capacity within the SAPP to design and deliver transformational regional energy projects in Southern Africa.
... See More + The AF will maximize the development impact of the SAPP AREP by supporting scaling up of the activities under all three parts of the project. Specifically, the AF will finance: (a) staffing and scaled-up operations of the restructured PAU of the SAPP Coordination Center (SAPP CC) under Part A of the project to support the increased number of regional priority projects supported by the SAPP; (b) preparation studies and analyses of an increased number of SAPP priority regional energy projects under Part B of the project, including those projects where the available IDA funding under the parent project cannot be utilized due to the constraints described in paragraph 4; and (c) analytical studies and analyses aimed at developing innovative regional solutions, technical assistance (TA), and capacity-building activities under Part C of the project to further augment the capacity of the SAPP and other regional institutions.
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Mining has been central to the social and economic narrative of Southern Africa, and has been a key provider of investment, employment, government revenue and infrastructure in the region.
... See More + In South Africa, the Johannesburg-Pretoria metropolitan area, which serves as the region's economic and financial hub, developed because of the local gold supply. In the early years, mining developed on the back of migrant workers from across Southern Africa who toiled in the mines under poor conditions. Many ex-miners suffer from vocational diseases to this day. While mining has helped build the economies of Southern Africa, it has come at social and environmental costs that cast a long shadow. Inequality is also high in many Southern African countries, suggesting that mining has not translated into inclusive growth. This report attempts to examine and weigh the various benefits and costs that mining has brought to the Southern Africa region. Data limitations are significant, restricting authoritative conclusions on whether the benefits from mining are positive or negative, on balance, for Southern African societies. The emphasis of this report is thus on taking stock of various benefits and costs associated with mining, while drawing on available information and thought experiments to highlight the potential trade-offs and how they affect stakeholder groups: workers, investors, governments, communities, and the rest of the economy. The countries this report focuses on are Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
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The main goals of the Southern Africa Temane Regional Electricity Project (STE) Project are to connect and integrate the current two isolated power systems in Mozambique and to allow the transmission of surplus power generated in the north to the southern region.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: to avoid forced eviction; to mitigate unavoidable adverse social and economic impacts from land acquisition or restrictions on land use by: (a) providing timely compensation for loss of assets at replacement cost and (b) assisting displaced persons in their efforts to improve, or at least restore, their livelihoods and living standards, in real terms, to pre-displacement levels or to levels prevailing prior to the beginning of project implementation, whichever is higher; to improve living conditions of poor or vulnerable persons who are physically displaced, through provision of adequate housing, access to services and facilities, and security of tenure; to conceive and execute resettlement activities as sustainable development programs, providing enough investment resources to enable displaced persons to benefit directly from the project, as the nature of the project may warrant; and to ensure that resettlement activities are planned and implemented with appropriate disclosure of information, meaningful consultation, and the informed participation of those affected.
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The main goals of the Southern Africa Temane Regional Electricity Project (STE) Project are to connect and integrate the current two isolated power systems in Mozambique and to allow the transmission of surplus power generated in the north to the southern region.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: to avoid forced eviction; to mitigate unavoidable adverse social and economic impacts from land acquisition or restrictions on land use by: (a) providing timely compensation for loss of assets at replacement cost and (b) assisting displaced persons in their efforts to improve, or at least restore, their livelihoods and living standards, in real terms, to pre-displacement levels or to levels prevailing prior to the beginning of project implementation, whichever is higher; to improve living conditions of poor or vulnerable persons who are physically displaced, through provision of adequate housing, access to services and facilities, and security of tenure; to conceive and execute resettlement activities as sustainable development programs, providing enough investment resources to enable displaced persons to benefit directly from the project, as the nature of the project may warrant; and to ensure that resettlement activities are planned and implemented with appropriate disclosure of information, meaningful consultation, and the informed participation of those affected.
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The main goals of the Southern Africa Temane Regional Electricity Project (STE) Project are to connect and integrate the current two isolated power systems in Mozambique and to allow the transmission of surplus power generated in the north to the southern region.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: to avoid forced eviction; to mitigate unavoidable adverse social and economic impacts from land acquisition or restrictions on land use by: (a) providing timely compensation for loss of assets at replacement cost and (b) assisting displaced persons in their efforts to improve, or at least restore, their livelihoods and living standards, in real terms, to pre-displacement levels or to levels prevailing prior to the beginning of project implementation, whichever is higher; to improve living conditions of poor or vulnerable persons who are physically displaced, through provision of adequate housing, access to services and facilities, and security of tenure; to conceive and execute resettlement activities as sustainable development programs, providing enough investment resources to enable displaced persons to benefit directly from the project, as the nature of the project may warrant; and to ensure that resettlement activities are planned and implemented with appropriate disclosure of information, meaningful consultation, and the informed participation of those affected.
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The main goals of the Southern Africa Temane Regional Electricity Project (STE) Project are to connect and integrate the current two isolated power systems in Mozambique and to allow the transmission of surplus power generated in the north to the southern region.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: to avoid forced eviction; to mitigate unavoidable adverse social and economic impacts from land acquisition or restrictions on land use by: (a) providing timely compensation for loss of assets at replacement cost and (b) assisting displaced persons in their efforts to improve, or at least restore, their livelihoods and living standards, in real terms, to pre-displacement levels or to levels prevailing prior to the beginning of project implementation, whichever is higher; to improve living conditions of poor or vulnerable persons who are physically displaced, through provision of adequate housing, access to services and facilities, and security of tenure; to conceive and execute resettlement activities as sustainable development programs, providing enough investment resources to enable displaced persons to benefit directly from the project, as the nature of the project may warrant; and to ensure that resettlement activities are planned and implemented with appropriate disclosure of information, meaningful consultation, and the informed participation of those affected.
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