Multi Energy Resilience Tender

CountryMaliApproval Date16 October 2019Duration2019 - 2026SectorAgricultural DevelopmentTotal Project CostUS 50.76 millionIFAD FinancingUS 29.97 millionCo-financiers InternationalGlobal Environmental Facility US 2 millionCo-financiers DomesticNational Government US 4.87 millionBeneficiaries US 4.53 millionFinancing GapUS 5.64 millionFinancing termsDSF GrantHighly ConcessionalProject ID2000001896Project ContactNorman MesserThe project goal is to contribute to improved food and nutritional security poverty reduction and strengthened resilience including climate resilience for poor rural people in southern Mali. The development objective is sustainable improvement in access to renewable energy and soil productivity.MERIT will strengthen the climate resilience of ecosystems by promoting low-emission energy sources. It will benefit more than 42000 households or some 420000 indirect beneficiaries in the project area of whom at least 50 per cent women and 30 per cent young people.The ASAPPAPAM project area was located in six cercles the cercle is the second-level administrative unit in Mali in the southern part of the Kayes and Sikasso regions. Under MERIT interventions will be expanded within these regions and will also include the Koulikoro and Sgou regions.MERIT targets smallholder women men and young people crop and livestock farmers and agro-pastoralists who are considered the group most vulnerable to climate change. The targeting approach will combine the criteria of vulnerability to climate change at the local level and the eligibility criteria number of animals access to water selected for ASAPPAPAM to identify beneficiaries of biodigesters. For the installation of biodigesters the project will target vulnerable households beginning with large households or family clusters.