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The Project is consistent with the Bank’s Energy Sector Policy 2012 which seeks to promote energy security and increase access to affordable and reliable energy services for household, industrial and commercial use. In addition, the Project is aligned with the Bank’s Climate Change and Green Growth Action Plan (2021-2025) which seeks to promote low carbon development and mitigate as well as boost resilience and adaptation to climate change; the Bank’s Jobs for Youth in Africa Strategy (2016-2025) as it will boost industrial activities, key for youth employment and the Bank’s Gender Strategy (2021-2025) under its pillar 3 which calls for Increasing women’s access to social services through infrastructure.
Project Objectives
The project development objective is to increase access to clean and reliable electricity supply by reinforcing the transmission system capacity of the Eastern Ethiopia Electricity Grid. The reinforced eastern grid will address voltage drop and power losses in the region and allow more industries and households to be connected to grid electricity, facilitate the full-scale operation of factories connected to the grid and eliminate the use of diesel generators that currently provide base power to the region, and, more importantly, support the launch of the Government’s program for irrigated agriculture in the region. Consequently, the project is key to addressing fragility by enhancing the socioeconomic viability of the Eastern Ethiopia region and ultimately, the Federal Republic of Somalia through its eventual interconnection. |
