LAUNCH OF THE MISSION TO DRAFT GUINEA-BISSAU’S NATIONAL ENERGY POLICY
LAUNCH OF THE MISSION TO DRAFT GUINEA-BISSAU’S NATIONAL ENERGY POLICY (23 July 2025): ECOWAS, through ROGEAP, is providing assistance to the Ministry of Energy of Guinea-Bissau.
Bissau, (23 July 2025).
The Minister for Energy of Guinea-Bissau, Dr José Carlos Varela Casimiro, in the presence of the Senior Adviser to the ROGEAP project and representatives of other technical and financial partners, chaired this afternoon’s launch and scoping workshop for the development of Guinea-Bissau’s National Energy Policy.
As a reminder, the ECOWAS Commission, through the Regional Off-Grid Electricity Access Project (ROGEAP), is providing technical assistance to the Ministry of Energy of Guinea-Bissau to help the country develop a national energy policy. Under the supervision of the Directorate-General for Energy, ROGEAP has recruited two international experts to:
- Review the current energy policy and the regulatory and legal framework;
- To diagnose and assess the state of the energy sector;
- To draw up a national energy policy in line with the Government’s priorities and a roadmap for its implementation;
- Align the new policy with national development plans, regional agreements and international commitments, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement.
As a reminder, ROGEAP is a project funded by the World Bank, the Clean Technology Fund (CTF) and the Directorate-General for International Cooperation (DGIS), and implemented by the ECOWAS Commission under Component 1 (Developing a regional market for off-grid solar energy).
