Malawi - Electricity Access Project

The development objective of Electricity Access Project is to increase access to electricity in Malawi. This project has three components. 1) The first component, Grid electrification, aims to finance cost-effective, priority investments in grid electrification by providing electricity supply to households living in close proximity to an existing distribution infrastructure leveraging on the geospatial analysis to maximize the number of connections under the financing. 2) The second component, Off-grid market development fund, aims to address the challenges to scaling up the off-grid market. 3) The third component, Technical assistance (TA) and capacity building, finance various TA and capacity-building activities related to institutional culture and performance to ensure Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM), Ministry of Natural Resources, Energy, and Mining (MoNREM), and other sector stakeholders have adequate technical, planning, and operational capacity to implement the electrification rollout activities and effectively undertake activities under components 1 and 2 of the project. It has the following subcomponents: (i) Technical assistance to ESCOM; and (ii) Technical assistance to MoNREM.