[{"bbox": [114, 132, 1116, 187], "category": "List-item", "text": "3. **Additional support** will be provided under small contracts in direct management for e.g. the Technical Audit of the works."}, {"bbox": [114, 219, 1003, 247], "category": "List-item", "text": "4. Prepare and conduct gender sensitive energy awareness events and trainings, i.e.:"}, {"bbox": [114, 248, 1116, 305], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Events to reach both women and men, taking into consideration women's lower access to information and restricted mobility, in Buchanan, Greenville and Barclayville;"}, {"bbox": [114, 306, 1116, 334], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Develop and actualise strategies to boost interest amongst young girls to choose technical courses;"}, {"bbox": [114, 335, 1116, 392], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Provide training to women in technical areas to meet the employment needs of the EU energy programme once rolled out;"}, {"bbox": [114, 393, 1116, 449], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Develop training modules and conduct business management trainings to prepare women for the upscaling of relevant businesses that have clear growth potential once power is available;"}, {"bbox": [114, 450, 1116, 536], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Provide gender training to key actors in the energy sector to ensure that all involved key stakeholders have a sufficient level of knowledge on gender equality and how it matters in the energy sector, in Monrovia and at the three field locations."}, {"bbox": [114, 566, 1116, 652], "category": "List-item", "text": "N.B. Technical assistance to LERC & MME and Studies have been/are being provided with EU support to Liberian authorities for the preparation of mini-grid projects with funding from the preparatory phase⁹ including:"}, {"bbox": [129, 653, 1116, 710], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Designing the appropriate _affermage contracts_ for the electrification of mini-grids in general, including institutional and legal framework, rules and procedures;"}, {"bbox": [129, 711, 1116, 798], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Providing TA services for implementation of the enabling environment of the selected projects, i.e. the drafting of the individual _licences_ and the relevant award procedures as well as promoting the compliance with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights;"}, {"bbox": [129, 799, 1116, 855], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Feasibility study, Design and preparation of Tender Documents of the individual works components for electricity generation, transmission and distribution."}, {"bbox": [129, 856, 1116, 911], "category": "Text", "text": "The 3-year TA to LERC started in March 2019 under the already signed new contract 401 419 TA to LERC & MME."}, {"bbox": [114, 943, 1116, 1087], "category": "Text", "text": "The inclusion of the community awareness raising, participation and consultation activities to ensure citizens and of possible support to homes that cannot afford the service; the provision of electricity to basic social service facilities, such as schools, medical centres/hospitals, etc., and including complaints mechanisms for potential rights violations and discrimination is part of the licensing and tariff setting processes being prepared by LERC with EU support."}, {"bbox": [114, 1088, 1116, 1203], "category": "Text", "text": "Part of the licensing and tariff setting processes being prepared by LERC with EU support (stakeholder analysis) include community awareness raising, citizen's participation and consultation activities, complaint mechanisms for potential rights violations and discrimination and stakeholder's dialogue."}, {"bbox": [114, 1217, 375, 1245], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.2 Intervention Logic"}, {"bbox": [114, 1258, 1116, 1315], "category": "Text", "text": "The private sector must be the driver of the expansion of electricity access to the south-east. Liberia is, due to poor internal transport and other infrastructure, not the country of first choice for investors."}, {"bbox": [114, 1328, 1116, 1385], "category": "Text", "text": "The entry of scale oriented, financially sound and technically-savvy companies into the power supply business in Liberia is key to achieve the connection targets by 2035."}, {"bbox": [114, 1398, 1116, 1484], "category": "Text", "text": "EU will finance construction of electrification assets in towns where LERC will award an electricity undertaking licence with exception of Barclayville, which is a special case and might not require a licence because of the type of action and its small size."}, {"bbox": [114, 1589, 1116, 1635], "category": "Footnote", "text": "⁹ Ongoing contracts: 384 896 Electricity Licenses in the S-E; 390 463 Design and Tender Docs for Minigrids in the S-E; 398 525 Feasibility Study and Tender Documents for the Sinoe Rapids Hydro Power Plant near Greenville."}, {"bbox": [605, 1678, 626, 1698], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "12"}]