In the past decade, Ethiopia has become one of the world's fastest growing economies, with a 10.9 percent growth rate that represents twice the region's average growth rate of 5 percent. The Ethiopian government has made universal access…
The Rwandan government is dedicated to expanding access to electricity and aims to increase its electrification rate, first to 70 percent by 2018, and subsequently to 100 percent by 2020 – an ambitious target considering that approximately…
This report details the results of the MTF survey in Cambodia and provides an informed account of the status of both access to electricity and access to modern energy cooking solutions in the country.
Many studies have estimated the amount of investment that is needed to meet energy access goals, but none have attempted to systematically analyze what finance these countries are actually committing to energy access, what is known about…
This version of the ESMAP Business Plan has been laid out as follows: Overview, Program Proposal, and Grant Amount by Country. Click on the download link above and choose the section you are interested in.
Access to energy has been measured traditionally in binary terms—either having access or not. However, this method does not capture the multiple aspects of access—capacity, duration, quality and reliability, affordability, and safety—and…