The development objective of the Third Phase of the Energy for Rural Transformation Project for Uganda is to increase access to electricity in rural areas of Uganda.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: (1) cash compensation equivalent to average of at least three years market value for the mature and harvested crops affected by land acquisition or temporary acquisition or easement; and (2) cash compensation based on type, age, and productive value of affected trees loss.
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Located in the Horn of Africa, Ethiopia is the second most populous country in Sub-Saharan Africa, home to more than 100 million people. Over 80 percent of Ethiopia's population live in rural areas, with agriculture functioning as the backbone of the country's economy.
... See More + In the past decade, Ethiopia has become one of the world's fastest growing economies, with a 10.9 percent growth rate that represents twice the region's average growth rate of 5 percent. This growth positively impacted the country's extreme poverty rate, which fell 24 percentage points between 2000 and 2011.The Ethiopian government has made universal access to electricity a goal that it aims to reach by 2025; it aims to achieve this by including off-grid technologies — inclusive of mini-grids and off-grid solar solutions — in its universal electrification strategy. The government has also made access to modern energy cooking solutions a priority, which is significant in a country that traditionally uses biomass as its primary fuel (evident in more than 90 percent of the country's households). To learn more about these facts and the Multi-Tier Framework (MTF) results and analysis on Ethiopia's energy access rates, please visit MTF's country web page, engage with dynamic data, and download MTF's comprehensive Energy Access Country Diagnostic Report: https://energydata.info/dataset/ethiopia---multi-tier-framework--mtf--survey--2018-.
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A small but densely populated country, Rwanda has one of the fastest growing economies in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Rwandan government is dedicated to expanding access to electricity and aims to increase its electrification rate, first to 70 percent by 2018, and subsequently to 100 percent by 2020 – an ambitious target considering that approximately 86 percent of the country's population resides in rural areas.
... See More + It's focus on expanding energy access also applies to increasing access to improved cookstoves (ICSs). Rwanda has gained support from multiple development partners to help it reach its energy access goals. Click here for Rwanda's energy access profile and to read the comprehensive Energy Access Country Diagnostic Report.https://energydata.info/dataset/rwanda---multi-tier-framework--mtf--survey--2018-
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The development objective of the Emergency Electricity Access Project is to improve access to electricity in rural and peri-urban areas within the Republic of Yemen.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts are include: (i) temporary disruption of economic activities and movement during installation/construction; (ii) public safety during installation/construction/operation; (iii) disposal of construction debris and waste materials, most particularly batteries and spent panels; (iv) damage to significant physical cultural property; (v) work related accidents and injuries; (vi) risk to workers from electric shocks; (vii) poor onsite sanitation or water supply, leading to illness and disease; (viii) The risk of employing children for construction activities; (ix) potential exclusion of poor and vulnerable households, including female-headed households and internally displaced persons (IDP); (x) potential exclusion of small retailers from lists of prequalified suppliers; (xi) gender gap in access to clean and modern energy; Some of the mitigation measures are include: (i) inform and coordinate with the local councils and the public on the maintenance schedule; (ii) provide alternative access to residences and roadside businesses; (iii) erect removable barriers in high risk areas; (iv) properly dispose of solid waste at designated sites through permitted procedures; (v) ensure proper recycling and disposal paths exist for batteries; (vi) provide occupational health and safety training to all employees involved in works; (vii) provide workers in high noise areas with earplugs or earmuffs; (viii) provide protective masks, helmet, overall and safety shoes, safety goggles, as appropriate; (ix) train workers to avoid, protect themselves and respond to electric shocks; (x) provide employees with access to toilets and potable drinking water; (xi) ensure fairness and transparency by targeting rural and peri-urban areas with attention paid to reaching first-time borrowers and by ensuring that beneficiaries’ eligibility criteria will be transparent and part of the communication campaign; (xii) provide technical training to solar system retailers, importers, and technical service providers; (xiii) conducting gender-disaggregated focus group discussions with communities
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The Electricity Expansion Project of Kenya had a moderately satisfactory outcome, a moderately satisfactory performance by the Bank and the monitoring and evaluation quality was substantial.
... See More + The lessons learned were: (1) Kenya Electricity Expansion Project’s (KEEP) design was complex in that it supported the government of Kenya in the full cycle of electricity generation to household connections in expanding electricity access. (2) A strong community based approach to connect urban slum consumers can be key in moving consumers away from illegal and poor-quality electricity and in expanding “last mile” access. (4) The efficacy of utilizing an Output Based Aid (OBA) mechanism was highly effective in KEEP.
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Implementation Completion and Results Report ICR4496 JUN 30, 2018
Ratings for the Offgrid Rural Electrification (PERZA) Project are as follows: Outcome is moderately satisfactory, Risk to development outcome is substantial, Bank performance is moderately satisfactory, and Borrower performance is moderately satisfactory.
... See More + Lessons from the project include: (i) Complementary infrastructure development, especially road connectivity to local markets, can further increase the welfare impacts of electrification in rural communities. (ii) Solar home systems can be a successful solution for the provision of basic electricity services to poor rural communities outside the reach of the grid if the initial investment cost is subsidized appropriately to make it affordable to the beneficiaries while promoting ownership. (iii) A pilot project consisting of numerous but well-integrated learning-by-doing project activities can improve a client institution’s capacity to implement larger projects in the future successfully.
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Project Performance Assessment Report 127696 JUN 28, 2018
