ESMAP Business PlanFY2014-2016

ESMAP’s Objectives

To Inform Development Financing Inform Policy and Strategy and Increase Client

Capacity Deepen Knowledge and Generate Innovative

Solutions

Annual Block Grants (ABGs)

ABGs – the core of ESMAP’s program for regional Analytical and Advisory Activities

Energy sector assessments and strategies, institutional development, and policy and regulatory reforms.

Energy efficiency in transport and water sectors.

Energy-water nexus Low carbon development

Energy Access

Sustainable Energy for All TA Facility- $15 million focused on AFR, SAR and EAP- scaling up energy access programs

Africa Renewable Energy and Access Program (with AFTEG) Partnership with Cities Alliance on energy access for the

peri-urban/urban poor Global knowledge products:

– Defining and measuring access to energy– SE4ALL Global Tracking Framework – electricity access– Periodic State of Energy Access Report

Clean Energy

Global Geothermal Development Plan– About a dozen test drilling projects to be identified and developed ($5 million)– Working with bilaterals and multilaterals to raise $500 million for projects

Renewable Energy Resource Mapping ($12 million program getting underway in 9 countries)

Enhancing WBG capacity– Operational Support to regions for RE scale-up strategies: Concentrated Solar Power– RE staff training program with IFC and online library of RE-related operational

documents– Grid integration (smart grids, integration of RE resources into grids)

Climate resilience in energy sector

Special Initiative – SIDS DOCK Program

Support to Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Current project pipeline of US$5.5 million

supporting geothermal (Dominica), grid codes (Mauritius and Seychelles), regional regulator in Caribbean, EE in Cape Verde and Sao Tome and Principe

Additional pledged funding of $9 million

Energy Efficient Cities Initiative

Global deployment of city energy diagnostic tool (TRACE) in AFR, EAP, ECA, LCR and SAR

Knowledge Management: training program for policy makers on urban transport

Scale up operational support for EE components in municipal water/ wastewater and urban transport lending

New program: $10 million in FY14-16 for TA and resource mobilization in targeted cities to include energy efficiency in urban planning and investment programs

Energy Strategies and Assessments Program

Energy Subsidy Reform: Technical Assistance to countries for designing and implementing subsidy reform

$15 million program with focus on fossil fuel subsidies Multi-sectoral: energy, macro-economic, social protection,

communications Gender and Energy: Evidence-base to demonstrate that gender

equality improves development outcomes

Results-Based Funding

Global work– Economic analysis of opportunities for RBF – Learning from RBF approaches in other sectors

Project development funding and technical support: clean cooking solutions in Indonesia and Uganda