COLLABORATION AWARD

THIRD ANNUAL INN-OBA-TIONS AWARD RECIPIENT - JANUARY 2016

The Uganda Grid-Based OBA Facility: Energy for Rural Transformation II, team led by Mitsunori Motohashi, supports improved access to electricity for poor households by subsidizing connection fees in peri-urban and rural areas throughout Uganda. The highly collaborative project is based on a PPP between the government of Uganda (GoU) and service providers, and includes strong collaboration between the GoU and the World Bank/IDA, GPOBA and KfW. To date, the project has reached 75 percent of its target, with 102,000 households connected to electricity supplies. (Read article in East African Businessweek, "Uganda Grid-Based Output-Based Aid Facility." 

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