[{"bbox": [129, 153, 1134, 259], "category": "Text", "text": "are employed below the poverty line, and 50% of female-headed households suffer from multidimensional poverty. In addition, 87% of women work in the informal sector in non-agricultural jobs, salaried women earn 27% less than men, and the proportion of young people (15-24 years old) without education, employment or training is 37.6 for women compared to 21.4 for men⁴."}, {"bbox": [97, 259, 1134, 312], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Low level of industrialisation and economic activity which is reflected in the low consumption of energy per capita, 215kWh/year against a Sub-Saharan Africa average of 552kWh/year."}, {"bbox": [97, 312, 1134, 445], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Regular power outages and power instability affecting the productivity and competitiveness of existant manufacturing industry and deterring investments in the country. Indeed, with Nalubaale HPP as the main provider of primary reserve for the Uganda's power sector, a forced outage of the Nalubaale units and limited availability of the plant might consequently also lead to larger black-outs and have wider systemic consequences in the Uganda power system."}, {"bbox": [97, 445, 1134, 498], "category": "List-item", "text": "- High electricity tariffs as a consequence of multiple factors including procurement of energy from relatively expensive IPPs. NKHPP is actually supplying the cheapest power in the country at only USD cents 1.26 kWh."}, {"bbox": [97, 498, 1134, 550], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Readiness to cope with climate change negative impacts on economic infrastructures and communities' livelihoods along the Lake Victoria and the Nile River due to rain pattern variation and extreme weather events."}, {"bbox": [97, 550, 1134, 630], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Lack of capacity at the public generation company, UEGCL, to operate, maintain and manage efficiently the generation assets its own due to the fact that the assets were in concession till recently (NKHPP, Namanve thermal power plant) or they were just commissioned (Isimba HPP, Karuma HPP)."}, {"bbox": [97, 657, 1073, 711], "category": "Text", "text": "Identification of main stakeholders and corresponding institutional and/or organisational issues (mandates, potential roles, and capacities) to be covered by the action:"}, {"bbox": [91, 736, 1134, 817], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development (MEMD) is responsible for the follow up of this action in the framework of the National Energy Policy and the implementation of the NDP III. The Ministry is well staffed and enjoy extended technical support from other development partners mainly Germany and the World Bank."}, {"bbox": [91, 817, 1134, 897], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Ministry of Water and Environment (MWE) is responsible for engaging at the regional level with the Nile Basin Initiative and the East African Community. MWE is also responsible for authorising water abstraction and discharges from Lake Victoria."}, {"bbox": [91, 897, 1134, 950], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Uganda Energy Generation Company Limited (UEGCL) will be responsible for the implementation of the action. UEGCL is the holding company for state-owned generation assets."}, {"bbox": [91, 950, 1134, 1055], "category": "List-item", "text": "- The Electricity Regulatory Authority (ERA) is an independent body with the role of regulating, sanctioning and supervising in the area of electricity. ERA regulates licensing, generation, transmission, and distribution. Therefore, in the frame of this action, ERA is intended to approve necessary investments for the rehabilitation of NKHPP and take then in consideration when fixing tariffs for electricity."}, {"bbox": [91, 1055, 1134, 1107], "category": "List-item", "text": "- The private sector. The involvement of the private sector is expected in the implementation of service and works contracts."}, {"bbox": [91, 1107, 1134, 1161], "category": "List-item", "text": "- The European Finance Institutions (EFIs), some of them with local presence, are expected to participate in the action through a blending approach providing a concessional credit to the Government."}, {"bbox": [85, 1621, 503, 1647], "category": "Footnote", "text": "⁴ https://www.data.unwomen.org/country/uganda"}, {"bbox": [1038, 1682, 1144, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 6 of 22"}]