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IATI identifier 46002-P-RW-F00-009
Country Rwanda
Sector Power
High 5 Light Up and Power Africa
Sovereign / Non-Sovereign Sovereign
Environmental Category [2] Moderate Risk
Climate Safeguards Categorization [2] Projects may be vulnerable to climate risk.
Gender Marker System Categorization [GEN II] Gender Outcomes
Commitment (UA) 148,241,635
Project General Description
The proposed program is a results-based financing (RBF) operation and is anchored on Rwanda’s Energy Sector Strategic Plan (ESSP II) 2024–2029. The program will support the country in carrying out its electrification program with the aim of improving the quality of life of residents and promoting businesses, thus contributing to economic growth and poverty reduction in Rwanda. The proposed RBF will be the Bank’s second in Rwanda’s energy sector following the first one that is a three (3) year program based on the Country’s ESSP 2018/19 – 2023/24 adjudged Satisfactory . In summary, the first RBF has contributed to an additional 83,891 household grid connection, 354,145 off-grid household connections, 3,125 productive use connections, and at the level of outcomes contributed to increasing the national electricity access rate from 44% in 2018 to 78.9% in 2024 and reducing the power system losses from 21% to 18% during the same period. The new RBF builds on the lessons of this first RBF and will continue to support the government in accelerating access targets. The proposed EUR 260.76 million RBF II will be implemented over a period of 2025/26 to 2029/30 fiscal years with three main Results Areas which will all contribute directly to the achievement of the ESSP-II.
Project Objectives
The proposed RBF development objective is to increase access to reliable, clean electricity and energy services including clean cooking , which is of strategic relevance to both the AfDB, AIIB and Rwanda, in terms of sectoral and institutional context, gender mainstreaming, environmental considerations, and in mitigating the impacts of climate change.
Beneficiaries
The primary program beneficiaries include: (i) more than 200,000 customers who will be connected to the grid and benefit from a more reliable and clean energy source; (ii) 50,000 low income customers who will be provided with standalone SHSs; (iii) provision of a total of 100,310 clean cooking technologies to households and public facilities such as schools; (iv) 850 existing industrial, commercial and productiveuse customers who will benefit from increased quality of service because of improved power system reliability; (v) local contractors for supply and installation and small scale business will also benefit from enhanced security and longer business hours arising from improved street lighting; and (vi) the local population to benefit from increased employment opportunities during the program implementation. The increased access to electricity will benefit both women and men, with the expectation that 25% of beneficiaries
