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Short Description:

Overall goal

The Global Energy Transformation Programme (GET.pro) aims to contribute to the achievement of the SDGs and the Paris Climate Agreement on sustainable energy and climate change. This will be achieved through three complementary instruments focusing on the private sector (GET.invest), the public sector (GET.transform) and the African-European strategic dialogue (AEEP). The Austrian contribution is earmarket to support GET.transform. GET.transform supports the achievement of international energy and climate targets by promoting systemic transformation processes in partner countries and regions. It creates conducive framework conditions for large-scale investments in renewable energy facilitated, inter alia, by GET.invest. GET.transform will analyse and disseminate practical, on-the-ground knowledge, lessons learned and data gathered during provision of its advisory services in partner countries, in order to improve energy sector governance in other countries in the region and to feed these practical experiences into the international discourse on energy transformations, facilitated in Africa, inter alia, by the AEEP.

Expected results

GET.transform has the following Specific Objective: In up to 5 countries or regions, concrete measures to transform the energy sector and/or implement NDCs (e.g. integrated energy and climate planning, regulatory frameworks, clean energy support mechanisms) have been introduced into political decision-making.

The following results shall be achieved:

1) Partner countries and regions are assisted to develop conducive framework conditions for successful energy transformations;

2) Knowledge and data from implementation in partner countries and regions are provided to advance energy sector governance planning and regulation globally.

Target group / Beneficiaries

GET.transform’s final beneficiary is the population of partner countries and regions benefitting from a sustainable, affordable and reliable access to energy, which in particular relates to the poorer part of the population living in rural areas. This will be achieved through the involvement of relevant pan-African and regional institutions, and through structured support to ministries, regulatory bodies, utility companies, municipalities and organized civil society as intermediaries.

A key feature of the GET.transform activities at the national level is the creation of strategic cooperation partnerships with renowned international actors in order to increase the direct development impact of GET.transform interventions. Furthermore, by forming transformation alliances and mainstreaming the programme’s transformative approach into strategies of international key players, a sustained impact (and visibility) beyond the programme boundaries will be ensured.

The total number of beneficiaries of GET.pro is estimated at about 6.84 Million people. The estimated number of beneficiaries reached by ADA's contribution amounts to 139,655 people, calculated by applying the same proportionality ratio of the financial contribution over the total programme volume; this ratio is equal to 2.04%.

Activities

GET.transform will deliver cutting-edge advisory services across three transformational work streams: Integrated Energy & Climate Planning, Renewable Energy Grid & System Integration, and Electricity Access

GET.transform follows a multi-tier approach covering Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) regions as well as country transition support at minimum in Peru, Uganda and Mozambique. The multi-tier approach translates the three work streams into activities at the regional and country level. GET.transform provides in-depth country transition support and can up- and down-scale country experiences across the two geographical regions.

Activity packages include:

A) Transformation support (Implementing Power Sector Reforms in Selected Partner Countries and Regions) through comprehensive technical advice and capacity building;

B) Knowledge for the energy transformation through the development of knowledge products and outreach activities.

GET.transform offers dedicated transformation advice to selected high-impact countries and regions, which can be mobilized rapidly through standing pools of short-term experts. By integrating advisory services into the bilateral portfolio of GET.pro’s contributors and partners, GET.transform will close the gap between long-term bilateral programmes and short-term technical assistance facilities. Implementation takes place in close cooperation with strategic cooperation partners (such as IRENA, G-PST, World Bank/ESMAP), regional entities (AUC, UN-ECLAC) and bilateral programmes of its contributors.

Context

More than 190 countries have committed to Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) with the aim to embark on a climate friendly development path and thereby meet the targets stipulated in the Paris Climate Agreement. As the energy sector accounts for two thirds of CO? emissions, ensuring access to sustainable energy for all (SDG 7) is the key to achieve the international climate targets. At the same time, access to sustainable energy contributes to gender equality (SDG 5) and is a precondition for poverty reduction and economic growth (SDG 1 and SDG 8) as well as the sustainable development of cities (SDG 11). In order to achieve these development goals, a global energy transformation is needed. While significant progress has been made in some countries and regions, holistic sector transformations have not been implemented yet on a broad scale (core problem).

Conducive framework conditions, as the foundation of a successful energy transition enabling large-scale investments in clean energy technologies, are still lacking in many countries and regions. The World Bank RISE report, for instance, shows that only about one third of the 111 analyzed countries have reached a reasonably advanced stage in the implementation of supportive policy and regulatory frameworks.

GET.transform addresses this challenge by offering dedicated transformation advice to selected high-impact countries and regions across three work streams: Integrated Energy & Climate Planning, Renewable Energy Grid & System Integration, and Electricity Access.

GET.transform follows a multi-tier approach covering Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) regions, as well as country transition support at minimum in Peru, Uganda and Mozambique. While the use of renewable energy needs to be accelerated across the entire economy, GET.transform focusses on supporting the uptake in the power sector as a key enabling element. Electricity will play an important role as energy systems progress with their decarbonisation. Other sectors such as industry, buildings and transport will increasingly rely on electricity driven solutions including the shift to, for example, electric mobility, green hydrogen or heat pumps.