Yemen Emergency Electricity Access Project (WB-P163777)

Countries
  • Yemen
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Financial Institutions
  • World Bank (WB)
International, regional and national development finance institutions. Many of these banks have a public interest mission, such as poverty reduction.
Project Status
Approved
Stage of the project cycle. Stages vary by development bank and can include: pending, approval, implementation, and closed or completed.
Bank Risk Rating
B
Environmental and social categorization assessed by the development bank as a measure of the planned project’s environmental and social impacts. A higher risk rating may require more due diligence to limit or avoid harm to people and the environment. For example, "A" or "B" are risk categories where "A" represents the highest amount of risk. Results will include projects that specifically recorded a rating, all other projects are marked ‘U’ for "Undisclosed."
Voting Date
Apr 13, 2018
Date when project documentation and funding is reviewed by the Board for consideration and approval. Some development banks will state a "board date" or "decision date." When funding approval is obtained, the legal documents are accepted and signed, the implementation phase begins.
Borrower
United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS)
A public entity (government or state-owned) provided with funds or financial support to manage and/or implement a project.
Sectors
  • Energy
The service or industry focus of the investment. A project can have several sectors.
Investment Type(s)
Loan
The categories of the bank investment: loan, grant, guarantee, technical assistance, advisory services, equity and fund.
Investment Amount (USD)
$ 50.00 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Project Cost (USD)
$ 50.00 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Bank Documents
Other Related Projects
Primary Source

Original disclosure @ WB website

Updated in EWS Aug 10, 2018

Disclosed by Bank Jan 25, 2018

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Project Description
If provided by the financial institution, the Early Warning System Team writes a short summary describing the purported development objective of the project and project components. Review the complete project documentation for a detailed description.

The development objective of the project is to improve access to electricity in rural and peri-urban areas within the Republic of Yemen. The project has three components.

  1. Financing for off-grid solar. This component has two sub-component;
    1. Providing basic electricity supply to households. 
    2. Restoring electricity supply to critical services facilities. 
  2. Implementation support and market strengthening. UNOPS will contract technical service providers and NGOs to provide market strengthening activities, including inter alia
    1. an awareness campaign and consultations
    2. technical training and capacity building to firms along the solar supply chain to increase their reach and strengthen the job-creation aspect of the program;
    3. technical assistance to the financial sector to develop derisking mechanisms for commercial lending for solar;
    4. technical standard definition and dissemination, and establishment of testing centers in cooperation with local universities to enhance the technical standards in the industry; and
    5. support for recycling of batteries from the project as well as the market more generally to minimize the environmental risks from disposing hazardous materials.
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Borrower:
United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS)
Bana Kaloti
Director, Middle East Region
banak@unops.org


Implementing Agency:
United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS)
Bana Kaloti
Director, Middle East Region
banak@unops.org

 

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