This project will lead to direct connections and affordable access to electricity in rural areas of Bolivia. The Project’s objectives are to:

(a) extend electricity access to at least 7.000poor Bolivian households, micro-enterprises and social uses in remote and dispersed rural areas (benefiting some 35,000 Bolivian citizens in these areas),

(b) develop and consolidate a mechanism for electrification of remote and dispersed households using a new form of public-private partnership (PPP) with innovative, output-based “medium-term service contracts” for the provision of electricity with decentralized, renewable technologies under the Government’s new Universal Access Policy.
 

A Grant Agreement was signed on June 26, 2007.

This project will help fund the installation of at least 7000 solar home systems (SHS) for dispersed rural households, schools, clinics and micro & small enterprises (MSEs).

GPOBA has previously provided Technical Assistance funding to design this project’s OBA scheme. Through the recently signed Grant Agreement, GPOBA is now providing US$5.2m in one-off output-based subsidies.

"B" – see also: http://go.worldbank.org/TL9GO2GS60

Lucia Spinelli