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ECOWAS officially launched the ROGEAP project’s activities in Liberia and Mauritania.

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ECOWAS officially launched the ROGEAP project’s activities in Liberia and Mauritania.

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ECOWAS officially launched the ROGEAP project’s activities in Liberia and Mauritania.

ECOWAS is officially launching the activities of its Regional Off-Grid Electricity Access Project (ROGEAP) in Liberia and Mauritania.

Stakeholders in the renewable energy sector from Liberia and Mauritania took part in the official launch of the activities of the Regional Off-Grid Electricity Access Project (ROGEAP). The launch events took place on Thursday 8 June in Monrovia, Liberia, and on Monday, 12 June, in Nouakchott, in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, attended by experts from the ministries responsible for energy, as well as stakeholders from the public and private sectors, including civil society organisations, NGOs, the media and commercial banks from Liberia and Mauritania.

The aim of these two national workshops is to present the ROGEAP project to the relevant stakeholders, raise their awareness of off-grid solar photovoltaic technologies and, finally, establish a regulatory framework conducive to the development of the off-grid solar photovoltaic market in Liberia and Mauritania.

In Monrovia, the seminar to launch the Regional Off-Grid Electricity Access Project (ROGEAP) in Liberia was opened by Kelvin GRUGBAYE, Director of Energy Efficiency and the Environment, representing the Liberian Minister for Mines and Energy, in the presence of Her Excellency Joséphine NKRUMAH, ECOWAS’ Resident Representative in Liberia, the World Bank’s Representative in Liberia and Arnaud KOUADIO BA, ROGEAP Monitoring and Evaluation Expert, representing the ECOWAS Commissioner responsible for Infrastructure, Energy and Digitalisation, Sédiko Douka. Arnaud KOUADIO BA, ROGEAP Monitoring and Evaluation Expert, representing Commissioner Sédiko Douka, responsible for Infrastructure, Energy and Digitalisation at ECOWAS.

In Nouakchott, the workshop in Mauritania was chaired by Ahmed Salem BOUHEDA, Secretary-General of the Ministry of Petroleum, Mines and Energy, in the presence of Elhadji SYLLA, Senior Adviser to ROGEAP, representing the ECOWAS Commissioner for Infrastructure, Energy and Digitalisation, Sédiko Douka.

ROGEAP is being implemented by the ECOWAS Commission and the West African Development Bank (BOAD). Its aim is to increase access to sustainable electricity services in the 15 ECOWAS member states and in four other African countries (Mauritania, the Central African Republic, Chad and Cameroon) for households, commercial enterprises and public health and education infrastructure, using solar systems. Valued at US$338.7 million, the project is funded by the World Bank, the Clean Technology Fund (CTF) and the Netherlands Development Cooperation (DGIS).