04/07/2014
Nine low-income African countries win funding to transform renewable energy services (African Development Bank Group)
(Source: African Development Bank Group) At the semi-annual Climate Investment Funds (CIF) governing body meetings held June 25-28 in Montego Bay, Jamaica, nine African nations were chosen to receive new funding and operational support from the CIF's Scaling Up Renewable Energy in Low Income Countries Program (SREP). The nine African countries are: Benin, Ghana, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Uganda and Zambia. This increases the number of African countries piloting CIF climate-smart investment plans to 25, nearly half of all 55 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. The African Development Bank (AfDB), one of the CIF's five implementing agencies, worked...
