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Add to Preferred SourcesThe World Bank approved on March 28, 2019, a $82 million grant to increase access to electricity in five of the poorest provinces of Mozambique, including Niassa, Nampula, Zambezia, Cabo Delgado and Sofala.
The project is also supported through a $66 million Multi-Donor Trust Fund administered by the World Bank. With a potential to benefit about 1.5 million people, this financing will help with the implementation of the Government of Mozambique’s (GoM) Energy for All project, also known as ProEnergia.
“The nexus between poverty and lack of electricity has long been established,” noted Mark Lundell, World Bank Country Director for Mozambique. “This project is part of our multipronged approach to poverty reduction by expanding energy access in Mozambique.”
Indeed, about 70 percent of Mozambicans do not have access to electricity, which is below the average for Sub-Saharan Africa.
This project contributes to the implementation of the GoM’s National Electrification Strategy (NES), known as “Programa Nacional de Energia para Todos” by broadening electricity access to peri-urban and rural areas and expanding and densifying the existing grid networks as well as promoting the use of off-grid energy solutions in those areas where the grid extension is considered economically unfeasible.
This project will use existing infrastructure to build additional distribution networks and connect new users; it will also pilot a new business model to promote the development for off-grid energy solutions.
Original source: World Bank
Published on 02 April 2019