Access to Gas & Heat Supply for Poor Urban Households in Armenia

The objective of the Project is to improve access to gas and heating services for Eligible Households in urban multi-apartment buildings. The Project consists of the following parts:

Part A: Individual Gas Heater Solutions Improving access to gas and heating services for Eligible Households living in urban multi-residential apartment buildings by subsidizing connections to the local gas network and/or installing individual gas heaters.

Part B: Local Boiler Solutions 1. Improving access to heating services for Eligible Households living in urban multi-residential apartment buildings by installing gas-based local boiler systems to serve entire apartment complexes.

2. Improving access to heating services for Eligible Households living in urban multi-residential apartment buildings (which have already selected and/or installed a gas-based local boiler system without connecting to individual Eligible Households apartment units), by connecting individual apartment units to the existing local boiler system.

Part C: Implementation Support Provision of goods, works and services for the effective implementation, monitoring and supervision of the Project.

(for more information please see: http://go.worldbank.org/SJUJBCFVL0 [3])

This project closed on December 31, 2009 and successfully improved access to gas and heating services for 5,847 households (23,739 people) in urban multi-apartment buildings.

This project will subsidize new service connections to 17,000 poor Armenian households.

GPOBA’s effort will serve as a pilot for the upcoming IDA-financed Urban Heating Project. Lessons learnt through this program may help justify increased use of OBA in other IDA projects.

Armenia’s Renewable Resources and Energy Efficiency Fund (R2E2) will receive GPOBA’s grant. This fund will then disburse subsidies to local service providers on an output basis.

"F" - for more information, see http://go.worldbank.org/SJUJBCFVL0 [3]

Ani Balabanyan [5]