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Country : Cape Verde

Summary : Consultancy Services on Energy and Migration: Developing a Programmatic Approach to Addressing Irregular Migration through Energy Access

Deadline : 08 Apr 2019

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Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 31201284

Document Ref. No. : ECW/RM/001/2019

Competition : ICB

Financier : Austrian Development Agency (ADA)

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

Purchaser's Detail

Purchaser : ECOWAS CENTRE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY
Achada Santo Antonio, Electra Building 2nd Floor, C.P 288, Praia “Resource Mobilisation and Project Development Officer, Monica Maduekwe”; Telephone :+238 2604649 - Fax : +238 2624614
Cape Verde
Email :mmaduekwe@ecreee.org

Tender Details

Request for proposals are invited for Consultancy Services on Energy and Migration: Developing a Programmatic Approach to Addressing Irregular Migration through Energy Access in West Africa.

Expertise: Resource mobilisation, finance, private sector development, energy, gender and climate change, energy and migration

Location: Home based, with possibility to travel to selected countries

Duration: 80 working days

Deadline for proposal submission: 8 April 2019

1 Introduction

Achieving the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7, i.e. ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all, remains highly relevant to the West African region, where more than half of the population do not have access to electricity.

The link between energy poverty and environmental degradation as well as development challenges (e.g. health, education, agriculture, and productivity in general) have long been established in literatures. However, since the adoption of the SDGs in 2015, which ushered in a new phase in the “global agenda for sustainable development, international cooperation on energy and the fight against climate change”, energy access, specifically the lack or uneven access of it, is increasing seen to contribute to irregular migration, which includes economically and socially induced migration due to vulnerability, poverty and lack of economic opportunities, etc.1

At the level of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), however, energy poverty has long been linked to issues affecting peace, stability and economic prosperity, which are factors that could aggravate migration. In 2007, the ECOWAS Conference for Peace and Security, held in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, adopted a regulation articulating the need to establish a specialized centre for renewable energy and energy efficiency and, thus, support Member States to harness alternative energy resources towards achieving energy self-sufficiency and environmental sustainability.

This idea has since been materialized in form of the ECOWAS Centre for Renewable Energy and Efficiency (ECREEE), which became operational in 2010 and has since then worked with and through West African countries to achieve its mandate.

With its objective to mitigate existing technology, financial, economic, business, legal, policy, institutional, knowledge and capacity related barriers, ECREEE’s first operational phase (2011 – 2016) revolved around working as a specialized agency to address these barriers through policy development and support, capacity building, investment promotion and business development, awareness raising and advocacy, etc. The ECOWAS region has advanced significantly since the Centre was created: renewable energy is increasingly seen as a viable alternate energy source, with a number of local companies being established (or expanding their services) to provide sustainable energy solutions.

These changes have created a new role for ECREEE to fill. With the regional policies in place and policy instruments at the national level to promote private sector participation in the sustainable energy sector, there is a demand for ECREEE to serve as a fundraising facilitator whose role is to enhance the capacity of ECOWAS Member States to attract foreign and domestic investors into the energy sector. This new role requires that the Centre continues to deliver on areas it has the comparative advantage to implement, as a regional entity, while spearheading a coordinated effort towards a region-wide
resource mobilisation agenda to achieve SDG 7 in the West African region.
In the frame of its regional resource mobilisation strategy, aimed specifically to achieve this “new
role”, ECREEE is launching this Request for Proposals (RfP) to conduct a comprehensive study on the
theme: ‘Strengthening Coherence, Coordination, and Cooperation on Resource Mobilization in
Achieving SDG7 in ECOWAS’.
The study will cover progress and challenges on fundraising towards investment in closing the energy
deficit in countries of the region. As a background for its analysis, it will look at issues surrounding
energy and development, such as how the energy crises aggravates and is aggravated by climate
change, how this worsens irregular migration and impacts on gender. Furthermore, the assignment
will consider what it would take to close the fundraising gap and how to track progress made at the
regional and national level on resource mobilisation towards achieving SDG 7.
The key product of this consultancy is a study report and programme document on the ECOWAS
Programme on Energy and Migration, which will be hosted by ECREEE and implemented in
collaboration with the key international and regional stakeholders.
2 Background
2.1 ECREEE Resource Mobilisation Strategy
In 2018, the ECREEE Executive Board approved the ECREEE Strategic Plan (2017 – 2021) as a means to
lead West Africa to achieve its vision of universal energy access. The Strategic Plan is a key part of
realizing the energy vision and will serve as a tool for ECREEE to function and to perform its role as the
West African energy agency. In 2018 as well, the ECOWAS Commission created an office for Resource
Mobilization for the Centre in an effort towards a sustainable funding situation to support ECREEE in
operationalizing this Strategic Plan and meeting its mandates, particularly through the
implementation of the four Sustainable Energy Policies adopted by the ECOWAS Heads of State,
namely:
? The ECOWAS Renewable Energy Policy
? The ECOWAS Energy Efficiency Policy
? The ECOWAS Bioenergy Policy
? The ECOWAS Policy for Gender Mainstreaming in Energy Access
In order to actualize this, the Resource Mobilisation Strategy therefore works to:
I. Ensure that ECREEE has a clear, coordinated approach to identifying, engaging, negotiating,
managing and reporting to its donors as well as communicating to them and its wider group
of stakeholders its results of financial inflows and technical assistance support;

II. Enhance the effectiveness of development assistance in the ECOWAS region by facilitating a
strategic, coordinated and harmonized approach to resource mobilisation at the national
level;
III. Improve relations and dialogue between ECREEE and its partners;
IV. Improve structures and systems to facilitate better management of resources; and
V. Align donor support to the ECOWAS development agenda and the ECOWAS sustainable
energy policies.
The result of is that ECREEE's contribution, as a specialized institution for SDG 7, is measurable, visible
and felt at the regional and national level.
2.2 Energy and Development
With its mandate to contribute to the sustainable development of the ECOWAS people, ECREEE’s work
takes into consideration how the energy challenges in the region affects human and economic
development in West Africa. Furthermore, ECREEE’s energy solutions (in form of its technical
programmes), in their formulation, is designed to respond to circumstances where the worsened
economic situation, at the household and community level, resulting from these energy challenges,
increases the vulnerability of the population to issues like climate change, which, in turn, intensifies
already existing gender-related issues.
Given this, this study to enable the ECOWAS region improve its approach to attracting investment,
will be conducted with development issues in the centre.
2.2.1 Energy, climate change and gender
The ECOWAS Environmental Policy (2008) notes that ECOWAS Member States are vulnerable to the
negative effects of climate change and that while the region contributes very little to these problems,
it is one of the regions that are most prone to the consequences of climate change2.
The Policy identifies ‘Energy’ and ‘Women’ as highly vulnerable to climate change. Climate change is
expected to negatively impact the already limited electrical power supply through impacts on
hydroelectric and thermal generation. Service interruption is also expected to result from damage to
transmission lines and substation equipment impacted by sea level rise, flash floods, and other
extreme weather events. Climate change impacts resulting in increased fuel-wood scarcity will
increase pressure on the remaining forest resources, resulting in further degradation of the
environment and negative impacts on rural livelihoods.3
In the midst of these is the issue of gender in
climate change. Climate change will affect men and women differently, not because of their sex but
because of the inequalities in social standing and economic capability.

Although a multifaceted issue, one way ECREEE has chosen to address this is through protecting those most vulnerable to climate change and energy poverty as a result of their low income status. ECREEE’s newly formulated project: The ECOWAS Project on Promoting Agricultural Competitiveness through Solar Energy (PAC- SOLAR), is designed to respond to the energy, climate change and gender nexus. The project seeks to support the region’s agricultural businesses to produce more through the increasingly affordable and reliable option of harnessing its abundant renewable energy resources towards providing a stable supply of water for irrigation and other agricultural purposes4. Its aim is addressing a key challenge to the sector’s competitiveness, i.e. its dependence on the irregular nature of the climate for agricultural irrigation through rainfall. The project contributes directly to the goals of the ECOWAS Sustainable Energy Policies, with a strong link to the ECOWAS Policy for Gender Mainstreaming in Energy Access, as it works to transform and improve the income generating capacity of a sector where women and low income groups predominately rely on for their livelihood.

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