| Project Detail |
Along with key partner Winrock International, DAI builds the capacity of the Government of Nepal to lead and manage the National Small-Scale Renewable Energy Framework—an overarching vision for the off-grid electricity and clean cooking sector—and deliver a program of activities in line with the framework. Our consortium also includes Policy Entrepreneurs Inc. and Samriddha Pahad.
Nepal’s clean energy sector faces complex and interrelated challenges and uncertainties. These include sector-specific issues such as a lack of sustainable financing mechanisms and an over-reliance on subsidies, in addition to wider contextual challenges such as the decentralization of authority to new provincial and local government units under Nepal’s federal transition. These challenges must be overcome if the sector is to achieve its potential in terms of improving access to clean energy and driving increased productivity in the rural economy.
The program’s intended outcome is for government institutions and the private sector to increase investments in distributed renewable energy technologies in industries, businesses, schools, health centers, communities, and homes across Nepal. The program will work to institutionalize change through an enabling governance, policy, planning, and regulatory environment. |
