Lead country
Benin
Participating countries
Benin
Project status
Under implementation
Implementing period
From September 8, 2016 to September 8, 2021
Project ID: 4979
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Technical team
- Energy Programme
Technical area(s)
- Energy access
- Renewable Energy
Sub-area(s)
- Electricity access
- Clean cooking
- Sustainable charcoal
- Type: Thermal
- Type: Off-grid, standalone systems
- Resource: Solar
Landscape(s)
- Human altered areas
- Forests
Sub-landscape(s)
- Urban areas
- Rural areas
- General
Transformed sector(s)
- Forestry and other land use
UNDP role(s)
- Capacity development / Technical assistance
- Direct support / Service Delivery
- Normative support
Strategy
- Capacity building
- Governance
- Technology innovation
Sub-strategy
- Community capacity building
- Technical capacity building
- Sustainable land management
- Laws/ Policy/ Plan formulation
- Institutional framework
- Ecosystem mitigation and adaptation
- Alternative energy sources
Social inclusion
- Local community/CSOs
- Women
Gender equality
- Women's access to and control over resources
Gender result effectiveness scale
- Gender responsive
Pathway(s)
- Systems pathway
- People pathway
- Sci-tech pathway
Risk reduction target(s)
- Improve resilience
- Hazard control/mitigation
SDG target(s)
- 7.1 Ensure universal access to sustainable, reliable energy
- 13.2 Integrate climate change into national policies, planning
- 13.1 Strengthen resilience, adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards
Conventions and protocols
N/A
Private sector(s)
N/A
Hot topic
- Nature-based solution
- Food and agricultural commodities strategy
Project description
The project Strengthening the resilience of the energy sector in Benin to the impacts of climate change (Adaptation Project) also called in short NAPA Energy, aims to support the Government of Benins strategy to adapt to climate change in the energy sector and to reduce the vulnerability of rural and urban communities to climate change and variability, through increasing the resilience of energy production, transport and distribution on the territory.The project addresses the second priority intervention identified by the 2008 NAPA of Benin: Reducing populations vulnerability to climate change impacts by providing a better access to sustainable energy sources and protecting forest resources.The first intervention concerns the adaptation capacities of the energy sector to climate change. It will strengthen these capacities in order to enable stakeholders to integrate climate risks in energy planning and to face climate risks, so that risks of economic losses due to climate change are reduced.The goal of the second intervention is to support the development of new frameworks for energy policies and strategies that will take climate change into consideration. Climate change issues and adaptation measures should be integrated into policies and strategies both at the national scale, and in vulnerable areas identified by the NAPA.The third intervention will take action to reduce climate vulnerability of energy supply sources in Benin. It will focus on the resilience of watersheds, of forest areas supplying wood for energy, and of electricity production and distribution facilities. It will assess the vulnerability of these areas and take protective measures, involving all stakeholders, to protect these energy sources. Moreover, it will support the development of alternative energy production sources for vulnerable communities.
USD $8,200,000
Grant amount
USD $31,650,000
Leveraged amount (co-financing)
1
Source(s) of fund
Sources of fund
- Least Developed Countries Fund ($8,200,000)
Implementing partner(s)
- Government of Benin
Project metrics
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