[{"bbox": [126, 127, 1077, 476], "category": "Table", "text": "<table><tr><td></td><td>plans to prevent corruption through transparency. In addition, one indicator rewards the Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission for verifying a sample of asset declarations by public officials to monitor against illicit wealth accumulation. Perception of corruption will be monitored through the logframes of the budget support operation and the support project to civil society.</td></tr><tr><td>Low gender sensitivity in the development of the electrification in the country, and specifically in the south-east.</td><td>M The trainings and other activities in the gender component of the programme are implemented as per the recommendations of the Gender Analysis undertaken in the identification phase.</td></tr></table>"}, {"bbox": [136, 478, 265, 504], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Assumptions"}, {"bbox": [136, 517, 1067, 568], "category": "Text", "text": "1) Côte d'Ivoire Energie (CI) continues supplying electricity, which is more likely if LEC settles its 2013-2017 arrears to CI;"}, {"bbox": [136, 570, 1067, 623], "category": "Text", "text": "2) LERC has issued licenses and holds licensees to their initial commitments or appoints new licensees if the original ones default;"}, {"bbox": [136, 624, 864, 649], "category": "Text", "text": "3) Sufficient contractors interest to bid, given the bad access history of the area;"}, {"bbox": [136, 650, 979, 677], "category": "Text", "text": "4) All involved actors have a sufficient level of knowledge and expertise on gender equality."}, {"bbox": [114, 723, 600, 748], "category": "Section-header", "text": "# 3 LESSONS LEARNT AND COMPLEMENTARITY"}, {"bbox": [114, 764, 870, 792], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.1 Lessons learnt and Evaluation of Previous actions funded by EU"}, {"bbox": [114, 804, 1116, 921], "category": "Text", "text": "Results from previous EU financed interventions have informed the development of the action⁷. The main lessons learnt from these contracts, from the Mount Coffee Hydropower project, from one specific EU Evaluation⁸ and from evaluations shared by other donors in the framework of the Rural Energy Working Group are:"}, {"bbox": [151, 933, 1116, 1017], "category": "List-item", "text": "a) Domestic and pico-grid solar installations can be best handled by the private sector supply market; there is no scope or justification for direct government-level intervention at such a small scale;"}, {"bbox": [151, 1020, 1116, 1106], "category": "List-item", "text": "b) Small solar mini-grids can be reasonably easily installed but, once installed and handed-over to the communities, the communities have in most cases found it impossible to collect sufficient funds to pay for the replacement of the batteries, as required after 5 to 8 years;"}, {"bbox": [151, 1107, 1116, 1194], "category": "List-item", "text": "c) If grid electricity arrives but there is no willing and qualified operator in place, electricity will not flow regularly due to lack of maintenance and the electricity bills will not be issued nor paid."}, {"bbox": [114, 1231, 730, 1259], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.2 Complementarity, synergy and donor coordination"}, {"bbox": [114, 1273, 1116, 1328], "category": "Text", "text": "Several donors are engaged in the energy sector in Liberia. The presently known activities funded by the different donors in Rural Electrification are as follows:"}, {"bbox": [114, 1357, 1116, 1417], "category": "Text", "text": "Under the 11th EDF NIP EUR 100 000 000 envelope for Energy, the EU is implementing the EUR 52 000 000 Financing Agreement \"Monrovia Consolidation of Electricity Transmission and"}, {"bbox": [114, 1502, 1116, 1590], "category": "Footnote", "text": "⁷ Energy Facility grant contracts: 238 644 Cross-border supply of Electricity to Rural Communities in Liberia from Côte d'Ivoire; 267 810 Bring light to the 205 Health clinics which do not have it; 267 844 Rural Energy Master Plan and Market Development; 353 422 Renewable Energy market development, training and installation of solar pico-grids; 353 458 Construction of 5 rural village solar mini-grids."}, {"bbox": [114, 1589, 1116, 1632], "category": "Footnote", "text": "⁸ Contract 378 863 Mid Term Evaluation of the initial operational phase of contract 238 644 Cross-border supply of Electricity to Rural Communities in Liberia from Côte d'Ivoire."}, {"bbox": [608, 1677, 620, 1696], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "9"}]