Cote d'Ivoire - Project to Improve Access to Electricity in Rural Areas

The Project to Improve Access to Electricity in Rural Areas (PAEMIR) is an investment operation to extend medium-voltage electricity networks and connections in rural areas. The project covers three districts in northern Côte d'Ivoire (Savanes, Woroba and Zanzan), and concerns 426 localities with an estimated population of 259,486. The project falls within the National Rural Electrification Programme (PRONER), which aims to electrify all localities with more than 500 inhabitants by 2019 and the entire country by 2025. PAEMIR will also enhance the complementarity of rural electrification operations by extending networks under the off-grid electrification system approved by the Bank in 2018 on the private sector window, which targets areas far away from the networks. In addition, the project will enhance the synergy of all ongoing rural electrification projects with operations financed by the Bank over the past three years to strengthen the generation capacity of CIPREL and AZITO power plants. The project has four components: (i) Power Infrastructure; (ii) Social Connections; (iii) Institutional Support; and (iv) Project Management. The total cost is estimated at EUR 48.51 million. The project implementation will cover 36 months, from 2019 to 2021.