[{"bbox": [146, 146, 1080, 751], "category": "Table", "text": "<table><tr><td>Environmental</td><td>Energy investments pose environmental risks and are prone to potential impacts of climate change and natural disasters.</td><td>Medium</td><td>High</td><td>Support SEA of the Malawi National Energy Policy, screen specific projects for environmental impact and climate risk assessments, and raise awareness on climate risks. Integrate / mainstream awareness of disaster risk reduction and disaster preparedness strategies as relevant</td></tr><tr><td>Corruption</td><td>The energy sector is prone to corrupt practices because of its traditional institutional arrangements, dominated by state monopolies.</td><td>High</td><td>High</td><td>Continue support to reform process to reduce the incentive and potential to capture monopoly rents and to increase the transparency and accountability of public and private transactions, regulatory structures, and decision-making processes.</td></tr></table>"}, {"bbox": [157, 753, 316, 776], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Lessons Learnt:**"}, {"bbox": [157, 778, 1073, 937], "category": "Text", "text": "Technical assistance projects tend to suffer from a lack of ownership. The action will deploy the Twinning instrument to support institutional capacity building. Through its peer-to-peer and mandatory results approach, Twinning has proved successful elsewhere as it is very effective at engaging the beneficiary at a senior institutional level. The technical assistance component will aim to build commitment through developing a strategic project pipeline with a realistic expectation of funding under a subsequent blending programme."}, {"bbox": [157, 949, 1073, 1026], "category": "Text", "text": "Agreements with private investors have, in the main, not materialised. The action will support a move away from unsolicited to transparent solicited bidding that is more likely to interest investment banks and facilitate financial closure for IPPs."}, {"bbox": [146, 1108, 442, 1139], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.5. The Intervention Logic"}, {"bbox": [157, 1151, 664, 1178], "category": "Text", "text": "The underlying intervention logic for this action is that:"}, {"bbox": [157, 1190, 1073, 1430], "category": "Text", "text": "With institutional capacity building activities and strong commitment among sector agencies, Malawi's energy sector reform process will be well developed, legal frameworks operationalised and energy agencies will fulfil their respective mandates with increased efficiency and transparency as well as improvement of basis services to its citizens. This assumes that the sector stakeholders are fully engaged and motivated for implementing the regulatory framework. Achieving this output, and with active high level government support, will lead to a positive outcome of enhanced governance of the Malawi energy sector because commitment at all levels has been shown to be central to reforming the sector elsewhere. Achieving this outcome will depend on the government remaining committed to the implementation of reform."}, {"bbox": [157, 1442, 1073, 1601], "category": "Text", "text": "With effective technical assistance supporting bankable projects and government commitment to facilitating investments, there will be an improvement in strategic planning, secured IFI blended financing and increased private sector IPP investments. This assumes that the government supports a rationale prioritisation of investments and that authorities will be willing to undertake transparent tendering to attract private sector investments. Achieving these outputs, and with government commitment and support to project implementation, will lead to an outcome of improved access to"}, {"bbox": [965, 1662, 1080, 1686], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 13 of 25"}]