Madagascar - Power Grid Resilience Project (PRRE)

The Electricity Networks Resilience Project (PRRE) is an energy infrastructure and institutional support project in Madagascar designed to improve the resilience, reliability and quality of electricity supply while supporting the completion of the ongoing PRIRTEM I transmission project. The project combines social and environmental safeguard implementation, contractual regularization of high-voltage transmission works, reinforcement of JIRAMA’s distribution network, deployment of prepayment meters, and project management support. It specifically finances the implementation of the Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) and Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP) for PRIRTEM I, the regularization of the EPC contract for the construction of the high-voltage line, technical support to JIRAMA, including the acquisition and installation of prepayment meters and other network equipment, and project administration. The total project cost is estimated at UA 30.997 million (about USD 42.04 million), financed by an ADF concessional loan of UA 13.25 million, a Transition Support Facility concessional loan of UA 6.9 million, a European Union grant of UA 10.629 million, and a Government counterpart contribution in kind of UA 0.218 million. The executing agency is the Project Implementation Unit in charge of PRIRTEM I.