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Evaluation of ESMAP Regional Power Trade Portfolio
No full textThe joint United Nations Development
Program (UNDP) and World Bank Energy Sector Management
Assistance Program (ESMAP) is a special global technical
assistance partnership sponsored by the UNDP, the World
Bank, and bi-lateral official donors. Established with the
support of UNDP and bilateral official donors in 1983, ESMAP
is managed by the World Bank. ESMAPs mission is to promote
the role of energy in poverty reduction and economic growth
in an environmentally responsible manner. Its work applies
to low-income, emerging, and transition economies and
contributes to the achievement of internationally agreed
development goals. ESMAP interventions are knowledge
products including free technical assistance specific
studies advisory services, pilot projects, knowledge
generation and dissemination, trainings; workshops and
seminars, conferences and roundtables, and publications.
ESMAP work is focused on three priority areas: access to
modem energy for the poorest, the development of sustainable
energy markets, and the promotion of environmentally
sustainable energy practices. ESMAP has supported a number
of energy trade programs, but so far feedback from these
projects and evaluations of the knowledge gained has been
limited. It was therefore decided to undertake a review
ESMAPs portfolio of projects related to the international
trade of energy. This review was to include not only those
projects that have been completed, but also those that
currently are under way, and those that are in the immediate
pipeline. The review was guided by the technical advisory
group to the energy trust funded programs located at the
World Bank
Energy Sector Management Assistance Program Annual Report 2021
No full textDuring 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 electricity.
To assist clients with their COVID-19 response and recovery,
ESMAP supported the sustainable electrification of health
facilities, the provision of climate-friendly cold chains,
and the establishment of a relief fund for off-grid solar
companies in Africa. ESMAP’s activities to accelerate the
global transition to low-carbon energy and to secure
universal access to energy have centered on the just
transition away from coal, and ways to support the rapid
deployment of renewables, including mobilization of climate
finance through initiatives such as the Cooling Facility and
the Sustainable Renewables Risk Mitigation Initiative
(SRMI). In addition to the dynamic response to these
critical global issues, ESMAP has carried on its fundamental
role in implementing its business plan based on client demand
A Review of ESMAP Energy Efficiency Portfolio
No full textThe summary reviews the Energy Sector
Management Assistance Programme (ESMAP) activities in energy
efficiency (EE), from 1997 to 2002, and evaluates thematic
impacts, and lessons of the ESMAP Energy Efficiency
Portfolio, though outputs such as capacity and knowledge,
and other downstream activities, capturing best practices
from lessons learned. It describes the overall impacts ESMAP
played in mainstreaming EE within the Bank, and client
countries, the catalytic role in supporting EE work, and its
shift from its conventional demand-side management approach,
to innovative energy service-driven, institutional and
financing delivery mechanisms. Lessons suggest a careful
topical selection for effective cross-country exchange,
followed by systematic planning; establishing an
institutional infrastructure for making energy conservation
a profitable commercial business; establishing financing
intermediaries between project developers and financiers, to
bridge knowledge, and perception gaps, reducing transaction
costs; and, expanding knowledge dissemination on innovative
mechanisms, methodologies, and strategies in project design
Experiences from Brazil, Peru, the Philippines, and Turkey
No full textIn recent decades, many countries have
embarked on structural reform programs involving private
sector participation (PSP) across the entire value chain of
the power sector. Often as part of a broader market oriented
reform program, governments have resorted to PSP in
transmission and distribution (T and D) for a variety of
reasons, including to: (i) offset years of underinvestment
and poor operating performance under public ownership; (ii)
attract considerable private investment to fill the
financing gap stemming from new T and D additions amid
rapidly growing demand for electricity; and (iii) raise
fiscal revenues by offloading state assets. In some cases
(for example, Brazil and Peru), a prolonged electricity
supply crisis prompted government into structural reforms of
the T and D sector. The energy sector management assistance
program (ESMAP) study covers PSP in transmission, as well as
distribution. The four case-study countries, Brazil, Peru,
Philippines, and Turkey were selected based on the
substantial transmission story under their broader
electricity PSP experience
ESMAP Business Plan, FY2025–30
No full textIn 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, and modern energy
services by 2030; (ii) accelerate the transition towards a
sustainable, just, and decarbonized energy system; and (iii)
ensure the resilience and adaptation of the energy sector to
the growing impacts of climate change and other shocks. The
Business Plan has two focus areas: energy access and energy
transition. The energy access focus area helps World Bank
clients achieve results on the ground and will employ three
approaches: (i) catalytic incentives to facilitate private
sector investments and connections, (ii) hands-on
implementation support, and (iii) tailored solutions for all
beneficiary groups. The energy transition focus area will be
implemented through three complementary workstreams: (i)
scaling up renewable energy, storage, and clean hydrogen;
(ii) scaling-up energy efficiency and decarbonization of
end-use sectors; and (iii) transitioning away from unabated
fossil fuel. These workstreams will be supported by the
Financial Innovation Window designed to provide last-resort
project de-risking and incentives for innovation and
resilient investment. All workstreams will support economic
and leadership opportunities for women and excluded groups
Approaches and Insights from Recent Research on Energy Subsidy Reform
No full textThis report summarizes the findings
of a review aimed at understanding emerging approaches to
energy subsidy reform, discerning trends, and identifying
major strands of thinking and research in the field, as
reflected in major policy and academic journals relevant to
the subject. The review was initiated in early 2020 as part
of a multiyear stocktaking study on energy subsidy reform
experiences in developing countries by the ESMAP Energy
Subsidy Reform Facility (ESRF). The study objectives were
achieved through a two-stage process involving screening of
select policy and academic journals focusing on energy
policy, economics, and other related fields. The process was
used to identify relevant articles on energy subsidy reform
and explore themes and trends related to scope, substance,
and messaging. The review focused on identifying recent
trends in the selected literature, in particular
the coverage, focus, themes, and approaches related to energy
subsidy reforms. Recent literature was compared with earlier
approaches, and commonalities and changes in methodology and
focus were documented
Approaches and Insights from Recent Technical Assistance
No full textThis report takes stock of political
economy analysis (PEA) and communications in the context of
country-specific technical assistance activities supporting
energy subsidy reforms that benefited from financial and
technical support from ESMAP. Initiated as part of a
retrospective assessment of technical assistance activities
that ESRF has supported since its establishment, this report
reviews designs and implementation approaches of World
Bank–executed technical assistance activities. The
assessment is based on a qualitative review of key outputs of
select PEA and communications support activities carried out
in the context of country grants. The report documents
different approaches, assesses activity designs and outputs,
and attempts to draw insights from emerging practices and
substantive findings, along with making recommendations
for future work. Key questions include, What practical
approaches are used for providing technical and advisory
support to developing-country governments for political
economy assessments and communications strategies in support
of energy subsidy reform efforts? What good practice examples
are available for assessing political economy dimensions,
using them to inform reform designs by addressing key impacts
and concerns identified and conducting meaningful
stakeholder engagement to explain the reform and build support
The International Bank for Reconstruction
No full textknowledge and technical assistance program administered by the World Bank. It provides analytical and advisory services to low- and middleincome countries to increase their know-how and institutional capacity to achieve environmentally sustainable energy solutions for poverty reduction and economic growth. ESMAP is funded by Australia, Austria
Evaluating Rural Electrification Projects - Methodological Approaches
Get PDFIn recent years, the international community has expanded efforts in programme evaluation to improve the accountability of development projects. This paper presents approaches to implementing state-of-the-art evaluations in rural electrification projects, taking into account specific challenges that researchers face in such interventions. Furthermore, it suggests a particular approach to assess impacts before an intervention is implemented by surveying the yet non-electrified target region of the project and, in addition, an already electrified region. Besides delivering robust evidence on impacts, results from such ex-ante evaluations provide insights for the project design, thereby reducing the gap between evaluation researchers and practitioners.Impact evaluation, ex-ante impact assessment, electricity access, rural development
Developing an Energy Efficient Urban Transport Plan for Zarqa City Downtown Area
No full textTo promote energy efficiency in the
delivery of city services, the Energy Sector Management
Assistance Program (ESMAP) in the World Bank launched a
multi-year initiative, the Energy Efficient Cities
Initiative (EECI), in December 2008 to help scale-up energy
efficiency improvements in developing country cities around
the world. One of the tools to help scale up energy
efficiency improvements under the EECI program is the
provision of pre-investment policy support wherein ESMAP
applies its expertise in advising cities on appropriate
analytical tools, policy and regulatory framework, lifecycle
costing principles, energy efficient codes, and financing
schemes. ESMAP is also working with Cities Alliance City
Development Strategies (CDS) in this regard. Within this
context and in keeping with the Government of Jordan's
(GOJ) regional development agenda, ESMAP received a proposal
from the Zarqa Municipality seeking technical and financial
support for developing an energy efficient urban transport
planning strategy for the city Downtown area. This is linked
with the cities alliance grant to prepare inputs to the
broader CDS for preparation of the new Zarqa master plan to
be developed by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs (MOMA)
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