Uganda’s Ministry of Finance and the German Development Cooperation have signed a €10-million grant aimed at financing an electrification program for rural communities.
Director for East Africa KfW Development Bank Klaus Mueller, during the visit of German Chancellor’s personal representative for Africa, Gunter Nooke, in Uganda said to the Daily Monitor that this was the second contract they have signed to increase connectivity of electricity to Uganda.
“This grant will go towards increasing connectivity of communities in Uganda. In the past, we focused on generation but we realized there was need to increase access of communities to electricity,” he said.
A statement released by the German embassy in Kampala said the new grant will finance a program to electrify rural communities of the country. “The new grant will finance a program to electrify communities located along existing power lines in rural and peri urban areas of the country. Specifically, the program promotes investments in medium and low-voltage electricity lines, transformers and household connections.”
The funding includes capacity building at Uganda’s Electricity Regulatory Authority to improve the regulatory framework for grid interconnection of small renewable energy projects in Uganda
The program will benefit private households, small-scale companies and public institutions such as schools and hospitals. The funding will be made available to the Rural Electrification Agency which is responsible for the implementation of the program.
audemars piguet replica watches Besides programs for access to electricity, KfW also implements projects for the generation of electricity such as the GET FiT Uganda Program which supports small renewable energy projects. The government of Uganda signed a £14.7 million grant agreement with KFW to finance the Grid Interconnection Support component for the GET FiT Program.