📋 Tender Overview
Project sponsor: UNIDO - United Nations Industrial Development Organization
Land: Eastern Africa, regional/multi-country Funding amount: € 801,535.00 Start: 01.01.2023 End: 31.12.2027
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
project goal
Increased access to modern, affordable and reliable energy services, energy security and mitigation of negative externalities of the energy system by creating an enabling environment for a regional East African Community (EAC) market for Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency (RE&EE) products and services.
expected results
1: Improved institutional capacities of EACREEE to provide high-quality services to EAC partner states on an international level
2: Improved policy, legal and incentive frameworks to promote RE&EE, and their implementation facilitated
3: Priority strategic initiatives to up-scale the deployment of RE&EE developed and under implementation
4: Improved equality in energy access, energy business ownership and energy workforce
5: Enhanced collaboration, partnership and resource mobilization
target group
The main direct beneficiaries of EACREEE services are primarily RE&EE market players and enablers in the EAC region, including policy makers, private sector stakeholders (entrepreneurs, manufacturers, project developers, financing institutions), national institutions, regulators, power producers, generating companies, utilities and grid operators. Accordingly, the people living in the EAC region will benefit from increased access to modern RE&EE technology systems and services. A total of 1,325 people will be directly reached through these activities. In addition, three large refugee camps will benefit from improved access to sustainable energy.
Measures
- Strengthen EACREEE's internal rules and procedures in line with international standards
- Recruit technical and administrative staff
- Strengthen institutional oversight by the Board of Directors and regional ownership of EACREEE
- Establish and implement the long-term and short-term planning, implementation and monitoring framework of the centre
- Transform EACREEE into an EAC institution or upgrade the EACREEE status within the EAC or host country framework
- Approval of a harmonized regional RE&EE policy and facilitation of its implementation in all EAC partner states
- Develop regional technical RE&EE roadmaps and strategies for specific areas and facilitate their implementation
- Develop harmonized regional EE standards and facilitate their implementation on a national level
- Promote market development for clean and sustainable cooking and heating solutions
- Promote improvements in energy efficiency in the built environment
- Promote capacity building and investment in electrification via clean energy mini-grids and stand-alone solutions
- Promote utility-scale and distributed grid-connected RE
- Act as lighthouse for innovative technologies and solutions
- Strengthen an online RE&EE information management sys
