NAT'L ELECTRIFICATION

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The project objectives are to enable the Volta River Authority/Electricity Corporation of Ghana (VRA/ECG) to provide electricity from the national power grid to small urban centers and rural areas through a systematic electrification program, and to assist in the strengthening and rationalization of the sector institutions, particularly the ECG. The project is comprised of three main components: (a) a portion of a time slice of the investment program defined under an IDA-financed National Electrification Planning Study, which will include connection to the national power grid of all of the district capitals that are not supplied from the grid; (b) re-inforcement of the ECG's existing distribution network by expanding substations, and building or replacing major links between substations; and (c) institutional strengthening of ECG through regrouping of all its commercial activities under one directorate and hiring an outside firm under a performance-based management contract to run this new directorate.