The objective of this assessment is to identify gender and social inclusion gaps with respect to equitable access to clean and modern energy in the Horn of Africa (HoA) borderlands, specifically in Djibouti...
This Toolkit is intended to assist World Bank Energy and Safeguards teams with analyzing E&S risks in the off-grid solar sector and adopting appropriate safeguards. This Toolkit will help project teams...
In its Business Plan FY25-30, Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) aims to support client countries on three overarching objectives: (i) ensure universal access to affordable, reliable...
In spring 2024, the World Bank and the African Development Bank made a bold commitment: the two organizations are partnering to provide 300 million more people in Sub-Saharan Africa with electricity by...
2023 marked ESMAP’s 40th anniversary. Founded in the early 1980s to turn recommendations of the World Bank’s Energy Sector Assessment Reports into concrete measures for implementation by oil-importing...
2023 marked ESMAP’s 40th anniversary. Founded in the early 1980s to turn recommendations of the World Bank’s Energy Sector Assessment Reports into concrete measures for implementation by oil-importing...
Geothermal direct use (GDU) is the use of geothermal resources to create valuable commodities from heat, minerals, and gases. The term GDU arises because commercial development of geothermal resources...
This book is packed with actionable information for decision-makers, and it is the World Bank’s most comprehensive and authoritative publication on mini grids to date. The objective of this comprehensive...
The three-prong crisis, the Covid-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and climate change impacts, created, in the short term, new obstacles to countries’ access to energy and decarbonization. These same developments...
The three-prong crisis, the Covid-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and climate change impacts, created, in the short term, new obstacles to countries’ access to energy and decarbonization. These same developments...
A 250,000 US dollars ESMAP grant helped support the reengagement of the World Bank in the Yemeni power sector through the 50 million IDA-funded Yemen Emergency Electricity Access Project. ESMAP-funded...
Mongolia’s central vaccine storage facility in Ulaanbaatar did not have the capacity or capability to accommodate incoming Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines, some of which required storage at very cold temperatures...
During this period, ESMAP focused its efforts on addressing three compounded challenges facing developing countries: the COVID crisis; the urgent need to decarbonize; and achieving universal access to...
During this period, ESMAP focused its efforts on addressing three compounded challenges facing developing countries: the COVID crisis; the urgent need to decarbonize; and achieving universal access to...
Understanding the location and potential of renewable energy resources is a crucial pre-requisite to their utilization, and to scaling up clean and secure sources of electricity generation such as biomass...
The Clean Cooking Alliance (CCA) has been active in Bangladesh since 2012. In 2013, they convened stakeholder consultations to develop and launch the Bangladesh Country Action Plan for Clean Cookstoves...
The objective of this study is to support the government of Armenia to identify the constraints and develop a financing roadmap for mobilization of private and commercial financing in electricity generation...
Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) support complemented the World Bank’s Energy Sector Improvement Project to support Tunisia’s goal to transition to a secure, viable, and sustainable...
The objectives of the report are: to establish a general understanding of climate change, its causes, and adverse impacts to development and transport; give an overview of global initiatives and financing...
The objectives of the report are: to establish a general understanding of climate change, its causes, and adverse impacts to development and transport; give an overview of global initiatives and financing...