Ethiopia Electricity Access Rural Expansion Project - Output-Based Aid Agreement, Ethiopia

Output-Based agreement entered into by the World Bank and Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation. The World Bank agrees to extend a grant to assist financing a project consisting on increasing access to electricity for up to 228,571 poor households in rural towns and villages with grid access, within the context of the Universal Electricity Access Program (UEAP), by assisting the recipient in its connection fee financing program. The increased access to electricity will improve the quality of life, enhance educational services, and provide income-generating opportunities

National Electrification Program (NEP) 2.0: Integrated Planning for Universal Access, 2019

This document, named NEP 2.0, is an updated version following the release of the NEP in 2017. The Govern- ment expressed its commitment to steadily update the electrification targets and timetables based on new analytics and progress on the ground. The fol- lowing new analytics have become available as well as implementation progress and lessons learned over the first year of implementation:

Prospects of Public- private Partnership (PPP) in Ethiopia

Public- private- partnerships (PPPs) have been introduced as an alternative strategy to resource mobilization and as a way of embedding efficiency gains in building the infrastructure and delivering public services. Ethiopia is pursuing an ambitious transformational change involving huge public investment to address infrastructural deficit and public services delivery gaps.