Country: Cote D’Ivoire
$30m provided to anchor a receivables securitisation local currency bond of XOF 60 billion (c.$100m) to fund the continuation and acceleration of the national Electricity for All Programme Electricité Pour Tous (PEPT) electrification programme in Côte d’Ivoire (LMIC and FCAS). The programme will add 400k new connections in the next two years which is expected to provide first time electricity access to 2m low income rural households.
$42m of debt to support the construction and operation of a 46 MW biomass plant in Côte D’Ivoire (LMIC and FCAS). This will improve income generation for 12k outgrowers, while increasing access to reliable electricity to 743k consumers and avoiding 120k tCO 2e per year.
