PURE Rural Mozambique Climate Project

Enabel, together with FUNAE, Mozambique’s Fund for Energy, has been developing a funding proposal for the Green Climate Fund. The “PURE Rural Mozambique Climate Project” aims at driving climate resilience through increased energy access and climate-smart productive use of renewable energy (PURE) solutions in rural areas of Mozambique. It proposes an integrated, climate-resilient approach to rural electrification that supports both climate mitigation and adaptation goals.

It will support deployment of 30-40 solar-powered mini-grids across underserved communities, with an estimated 8000 connections supported and an estimated 399k tCO2eq reduced; It will also incentivise the deployment of 300-400 climate-smart PURE solutions that strengthen rural livelihoods and reduce climate vulnerability.

The project is structured around four interrelated components: (i) institutional strengthening and capacity support of FUNAE, Mozambique’s national energy fund; (ii) development of a pipeline of investment-ready mini-grid and PURE projects; (iii) construction and commissioning of mini-grids by competitively selected private developers; and (iv) delivery of Results-Based Financing (RBF) incentives to PURE developers to catalyze the uptake of income-generating, climate-resilient equipment (e.g. solar-powered irrigation, refrigeration, milling, cold storage, etc).

It forms an essential part of a government-led Country Platform, a coordination mechanism aiming at streamlining financing flows, harmonizing technical support and unlocking a new level of policy alignment and national transformation.

In line with GCF requirements on public disclosure, we are publishing the project’s Environmental and Social Management Framework, which presents the Project’s social and environmental risks, impacts and how they will be managed – thus avoiding, mitigating or compensating any social or environmental adverse impacts and enhancing positive impacts.