Project

Leapfrogging South Africas markets to high efficiency LED lighting and high efficiency dis-tribution transformers

Lead country

South Africa

Participating countries

South Africa

Project status

Approved/Endorsed

Project start date

June 24, 2020

SDGs addressed by this project

SDG targets

  1. 7.3 Double global rate energy efficiency improvement
  2. 13.2 Integrate climate change into national policies, planning
  3. 9.4 Upgrade infrastructure, retrofit industries for sustainability

Project ID: 5728

*The boundaries shown and the designations used on the above map and included in lists, tables and documents on this website do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the United Nations or UNDP | References to Kosovo* shall be understood to be in the context of UN Security Council resolution 1244 (1999).

Technical team

  • Energy Programme

Technical area(s)

  • Energy efficiency

Sub-area(s)

  • Lighting

Landscape(s)

N/A

Transformed sector(s)

N/A

UNDP role(s)

  • Capacity development / Technical assistance
  • Convening / Partnerships / Knowledge Sharing
  • Institutional mechanism and system building

Strategy

  • Law regulation
  • Capacity building
  • Monitor inventory

Sub-strategy

  • Laws/ Policy/ Plan formulation
  • Standards/ Labeling/ Guideline
  • Awareness raising
  • Technical capacity building
  • Institutional capacity building
  • Energy finance
  • Knowledge/Data management
  • Impact assessment

Social inclusion

  • Private sector
  • Local community/CSOs

Gender equality

N/A

Gender result effectiveness scale

N/A

Pathway(s)

  • People pathway
  • Systems pathway
  • Sci-tech pathway

Risk reduction target(s)

  • Hazard control/mitigation

SDG target(s)

  • 7.3 Double global rate energy efficiency improvement
  • 13.2 Integrate climate change into national policies, planning
  • 9.4 Upgrade infrastructure, retrofit industries for sustainability

Conventions and protocols

N/A

Private sector(s)

  • Small and medium-sized enterprises

Hot topic

  • Multi-stakeholder collaboration

USD $5,200,000

Grant amount

USD $79,530,000

Leveraged amount (co-financing)

1

Source(s) of fund

Source(s) of fund

 

  • Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($5,200,000)

Implementing partner(s)

  • Department of Energy

Joint agencies

  • Development Bank of Southern Africa
  • UN Environment

Related resources

Geospatial information

Discover relevant spatial data related to this project/country/region, powered by UN BiodiversityLab

Project reports and documentation