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The Africa Mini-Grid Market Acceleration Programme (AMAP) is a technical assistance (TA) programme funded and implemented by the Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA).

With USD 7m in funding to be disbursed over four years, the main objective is accelerating private-sector mini-grid investment on the African continent to accelerate the energy transition.

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AMAP pillars

Pillar 01

Public sector readiness

Pillar 01 focuses on strengthening the public sector’s ability to de-risk the market and attract private-sector investment. Its focus is on preparing the country for capacity, policy, and administrative requirements. Pillar 01 includes Central Contracts with a regional focus and MAP Contracts with a country-level focus.

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Pillar 02

Access to finance

Pillar 02 aims to develop financing instruments that offer tactical financial support to financial institutions and GMG developers. The development of a Results Based Finance (RBF) instrument, a guarantee facility, and strategic financial and legal support for developers in accessing more suitable forms of finance collectively de-risk access to finance and catalyse further investment.

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Pillar 03

Developer support

Pillar 03 looks beyond financial close, providing TA support to GMG developers to promote operational sustainability. Assistance is directed at various challenges across the eco-system of GMG operations, including skills acquisition and retention, demand stimulation, financial restructuring, supply chain management, enhancing market intelligence, etc.

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Pillar 04

Management

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glossary of terms

Market diagnostic

The diagnostic is an initiating intervention to assess market readiness within a selected country. It undertakes a high-level status review of key enabling requirements such as policy and regulation, tolerance of PPP models, institutional capacity, tariff codes, and ease of doing business, amongst other considerations. The diagnostic informs subsequent TA interventions.

Policy and regulations

This TA intervention provides policy guidance and supports the development of a regulatory environment conducive to mini-grid market acceleration. Includes advice on critical mini-grid policy decisions, defining institutional mandates, developing formal regulatory documents and associated templates (licence, permitting, etc.), including tariff tools, methodologies, etc.

Planning support

Focuses on identifying the most appropriate electrification options in the target country. Includes an assessment of the current electrification efforts, the adequacy of quality service levels, identification of least-cost electrification options through geospatial electrification planning, and the best options and arrangements for scaling up electrification within local market realities.

Site identification and feasibility

Deepening the geospatial analysis, this TA identifies and prioritises actual GMG sites within the country. It then extracts key data for each site, such as the village size, household density, distance from the grid, etc. Based on site characteristics, a high-level demand assessment is developed, including disaggregating and quantifying customer categories (residential, commercial, public services, etc.). This is followed by system sizing and costing.

Financial support

A TA designed to develop a funding support programme for GMG in targeted countries. The TA determines what subsidies and concessional instruments are required and how much private capital is to be leveraged based on the overall business case of the GMGs. Based on conditions and requirements, the TA identifies the most suited finance package and develops a funding programme adapted to GMGs in that country.

GMG procurement

To support national implementing agencies with the procurement process, including the design of a tendering platform, the design of contracts and bidding documents, tender briefings, review and assistance during evaluation and contract award, as well as ongoing monitoring and support.

country interventions

    1. Policy and regulation

    2. Site ID/feasibility

    TIMELINE OF EVENTS

    01.05.2022 - 31.10.2023
    Stantec/policy and feasibility

    01.05.2022 - 31.10.2024
    Embedded advisor

    06.03.2024 - 10.11.2025
    ALER contract

    06.03.2024 - 30.06.2025
    TA assistance to ALER

  • TIMELINE OF EVENTS

    15.08.2022 - 15.04.2023
    Nodalis - technical & financial support.

    1. Policy and regulation

    2. Site ID/feasibility

    TIMELINE OF EVENTS

    01.09.2023 - 30.08.2024
    Site identification and feasibility studies

    09.02.2024 - 08.02.2025
    Feasibility studies on solar-hydro hybrid sites

    01.04.2024 - 30.06.2025
    Regulatory review & financing pipeline

  • TIMELINE OF EVENTS

    01.09.2025 - 31.12.2025
    Market diagnostic

  • TIMELINE OF EVENTS

    01.03.2022 - 30.09.2022
    Planning support

  • TIMELINE OF EVENTS

    01.10.2022 - 24.11.2023

    1. Side ID/feasibility

    2. Financial support

    3. GMG procurement

  • TIMELINE OF EVENTS

    01.03.2024 - 28.02.2025

    1. Planning support

    2. GMG procurement

    1. Market diagnostic

    2. Financial support

    TIMELINE OF EVENTS

    23.05.2023 - 23.03.2025
    TOR diagnostic

    06.03.2024 - 30.06.25
    Follow-up TA based on recommendations from diagnostic

    1. Policy and regulation

    2. Site ID/feasibility

    3. Planning support

    TIMELINE OF EVENTS

    22.03.2023 - 23.03.2024
    100 sites pre-feasibility studies

    27.03.2023 - 31.12.2024
    PDER update

    03.04.2023 - 13.08.2023
    Review of legal texts

  • TIMELINE OF EVENTS

    15.12.2022 - 30.09.2023

    1. Site ID/feasibility (Vida)

    2. Planning support (RIMDIR)

  • TIMELINE OF EVENTS

    06.03.2024 - 30.06.2025
    additional TAs required to support ALER (feasibility study)

    06.03.2024 - 30.06.2025
    additional TAs required to support ALER (GMG regulation review)

    1. Financial support

    TIMELINE OF EVENTS

    18.09.2023 - 14.02.2024

AMAP performance log frame

Pillar 01

WORKSTREAM 01
Develop a standard set of Technical Assistance diagnostic & support tools

OUTPUT
Standardised tools and resources (Diagnostic and subsequent TA TORs, Training resources & templates/ tools)

TARGET
1 inclusive set
PROGRESS UPDATE
MAP TA framework developed

WORKSTREAM 02
Regulatory review support, policy support, stakeholder engagement

OUTPUT
Country-level support on policy and regulation and associated stakeholder engagement.  

TARGET
5 countries
PROGRESS UPDATE
Completed 1 country, active in 5 countries, launching in two more countries

WORKSTREAM 03
Provision of site identification support and site techno-economic analysis

OUTPUT
Country-level geospatial analysis of GMG pipeline and techno-economic feasibility studies

TARGET
5 countries
PROGRESS UPDATE
3 countries completed

WORKSTREAM 04
Provide programme implementation support for GMG tendering programme

OUTPUT
GMG tendering programmes successfully implemented

TARGET
2 countries
PROGRESS UPDATE
Currently supporting Guinea
Advanced stage in Madagascar
(with Mozambique as an alternative) 

Pillar 02

WORKSTREAM 01
Design of the RBF instrument

WORKSTREAM 02
Guarantee facility*

* Workstream to be undertaken under AMAP 2.0

WORKSTREAM 03
Provision of Transaction Advisory Support

Pillar 03

WORKSTREAM 01
Market scoping exercise 

WORKSTREAM 02
Held Desk conversion to knowledge platform

WORKSTREAM 03
Developing ESG Framework