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All country projects funded under this initiative have competitively procured the required consulting services, and the appointed vendors are listed on each country project page. ESMAP also carried out two selection processes to establish…

The Energy Subsidy Reform Assessment Framework (ESRAF) is a comprehensive analytical toolkit and assessment framework for helping countries to achieve politically and socially sustainable reforms.

The Need for a FrameworkReforming subsidies can be a complex and politically unpopular process. Many countries embarking on energy subsidy reform have seen their efforts fail and reforms undone. ESMAP created ESRAF to draw from these…

ESMAP's support to the Power to the Poor program helped provide interest-free loans to female-headed households, enabling 83,000 of them to get an electricity connection.

Although the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) continues to hold the world’s largest oil and gas reserves and has been able to maintain electricity access rates of close to hundred percent in most of its economies, it may not be in a…

The analysis focuses on describing the patterns of reform without judging their desirability or evaluating their impact. The paper finds that following rapid diffusion during 1995-2005, the spread of power sector reforms slowed…