Capacity Building Opportunity on Clean Energy Mini-Grids

For MSMEs based in the English and Portuguese-speaking ECOWAS Member States:
Cabo Verde, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone.

The ECOWAS Centre Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ECREEE) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft Für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), in the framework of the project “Improving the Governance of the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Sector in West Africa (AGoSEREE-AO), financed by the European Union (EU), are working to support entrepreneurs and developers who invest or intend to invest on clean energy mini-grids (CEMGs) through the expansion of the window opened by ECREEE and International Renewable Energy agency (IRENA), with the support of the Luxembourg Cooperation in 2015, to support entrepreneurship in the ECOWAS region.

ECREEE and GIZ are organising regional trainings aimed at entrepreneurs, developers and/or operators of existing or future CEMGs. This Call for Applications follows the “Qualitative study on clean energy mini-grids and entrepreneurship support in the ECOWAS region”, financed by the EU and implemented by ECREEE and GIZ. The main objective is to mitigate the lack of information and technical capacity of actors in the CEMG sector.

This second regional training will be conducted in English* and have a 1-week duration. It will take will take place during the 2^nd/ 3^rd week of February 2020 in Accra, Ghana, in the facilities of VRA at Akuse.

Candidates** must come from Micro, Small or Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) based in one of the English and Portuguese-speaking ECOWAS Member States. The MSMEs must be involved in the development, construction, management, operation or maintenance of CEMGs.

Female applications are strongly encouraged, in line with ECOWAS and GIZ gender policies. The selection criteria are available in the Terms of Reference (ToR). Between eight (08) to ten (10) candidates will be selected, at least one each from each eligible country.

Interested candidates must submit online all documents listed in the attached ToR to renfacility@ecreee.org, before 23h59 (UTC-1) on Friday, 20^th December 2019.

*This training aims at (MSMEs) based in at English & Portuguese-speaking ECOWAS Member States.

**Individual candidates will be rejected!\