Off-Grid Electricity Access Project.

The Regional Off-Grid Electricity Access Project (ROGEAP) has officially launched its activities in Yaounde, Cameroon.

The launch took place at an awareness-raising workshop attended by representatives of the ECOWAS Commission, the Cameroon Ministry of Water Resources and Energy, the World Bank and stakeholders from the private and public sectors, including civil society organisations as well as commercial banks in Cameroon.

ROGEAP is a joint initiative of the ECOWAS Commission and the West African Development Bank, aimed at increasing access to sustainable electricity services for households, businesses, public hospitals and schools in the 15 ECOWAS Member States and 4 other African countries.

The workshop provided an opportunity to educate stakeholders on off-grid Solar PV technologies, with the aim of facilitating the establishment of a regulatory framework for the development of the off-grid Solar PV market in Cameroon.

Participants made presentations on the mechanism for implementing the ROGEAP project in the 19 targeted countries; the 15 ECOWAS Member States and 4 other countries in sub-Saharan Africa: Central African Republic, Cameroon, Chad, Mauritania.

The workshop was officially launched in Yaounde by the Chief Technical Advisor at the Ministry of Water Resources and Energy of Cameroon, Laurent Ngouiva, and was attended by Monitoring and Evaluation Experts from the ECOWAS Commission.