Bank-executed Activities. The Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) assists client countries to increase know-how and institutional capacity to achieve environmentally sustainable energy solutions for poverty reduction and economic growth. The objective of the ESMAP Programmatic Multi-Donor Trust Fund currently under preparation is to provide multi-year funding support to implement the new ESMAP 2008-2013 Strategic Business Plan (SBP), endorsed by the ESMAP governing body, the Consultative Group for the Energy Trust Funded Programs, in April 2009. The SBP presents the core set of: i) continuing and proposed programs through which ESMAP will continue supporting client countries to better address the energy security and poverty reduction nexus; and ii) newly identified ESMAP initiatives that address all three thematic challenges and thereby strengthen ESMAP's comparative advantage as a global knowledge and technical assistance partnership. Specifically, ESMAP’s activities are developed around the following areas of focus: Component 1: Energy Assessments and Strategy TA Programs (EAS-TAP) will enhance institutional capacity of client countries to conduct energy assessments, develop strategies and investment programs and designing robust frameworks to track, monitor, and evaluate intervention costs and benefits of: i) measures to mitigate national energy systems vulnerabilities; ii) regional energy integration; and/or iii) low carbon growth. Component 2: Pro-poor Energy Access TA Programs (PEA-TAP) will assist client countries to formulate and implement policy reform measures and strategies to: i) close the energy access gap for the poor through enhancing the productivity of SMEs both as providers and users of modern energy services to the poor in rural and urban communities; ii) enhance poverty reduction impacts of national/rural electrification programs; and iii) achieve gender sensitive energy sector development. Component 3: Energy Efficient Cities Initiative (EECI) to assist cities to deploy energy efficient solutions for the delivery of basic urban services. Component 4: Renewable Energy Market Transformation Initiative (REMTI) to assist client countries to diversify their energy supply mix and scale up deployment of renewable energy technology. Component 5: Activities relating to overall general program management and administration functions required for efficient management of the program.
Bank-executed Activities. Component 1: Design, Implementation and Integration of a Multiyear Planning and Budgeting Process Providing technical assistance to the Budget Office within the Ministry of Finance (Ministerio de Hacienda (MH)), and the General Directorate of Economic and Social Development (Dirección General de Desarrollo Económico y Social, (DIGEDES)) within the Ministry of Economy (Ministerio de Economía, Planificación y Desarrollo (MEPyD)) for: the design of the multiyear budget, the medium term fiscal framework (MTFF) and the medium term expenditure framework (MTEF); the design of performance informed budgeting, including the preparation of guiding documents, the carrying out of legal review and the design of a reform action plan; and the development of the national monitoring and evaluation system and related tools.
Bank-executed Activities. The Contribution funds may be used to finance the following categories of expenditures for Bank-executed activities: World Bank staff working for the Secretariat, including direct, indirect and sustaining costs, as well as field benefits, of such staff related to such work, consultants’ fees, extended term consultants, temporary staff costs, contractual services, associated overheads, travel expenses, leasing of equipment, and media and workshops.
