Environmental and Social Assessment and Resettlement Action Plan for Rwanda Urgent Electricity Rehabilitation Project (UERP)

Narrative Description of Project.

The Government of Rwanda through financing from International Development Association (IDA) toward the cost of the Urgent Electricity Rehabilitation Project (UERP). The project is being jointly financed by the Nordic Development Fund (NDF). The project is intended to mitigate the power crisis in Rwanda and to help to restore good utility practice for its installations. The projects to be financed under this grant include The construction of the thermal power station in Jabana using the Fuel-oil of a capacity of 20 MWS

Description of actual services provided by your staff within the assignment:

Tito Kodiaga of EMC is assisting the Rwanda electricity utility company in fulfilling its obligations under the Environmental and Social Management Framework (ESMF) and the Resettlement Policy Framework (RPF) to improve performance of either framework during UERP implementation, recommend improvements to the project and the World Bank, developing and implement an internal administrative tracking system for Project Coordination Unit (PCU) in order to monitor the progress of project investments in terms of meeting environment and social safeguard requirements. EMC Consultants will develop a system, which will include the planning, assessment, approval, implementation and monitoring phases of UERP investments. The system will be computer-based and designed for data entry and report generation.