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Mozambique

30% reduction in the use of oil for domestic lighting by 2025 against a 2011 baseline

Up to 40% reduction in the use of biomass in semi-industrial facilities by 2025 against a 2011 baseline

Duplication of domestic hidroelectricity capacity by 2025 against a 2011 baseline

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To strengthen institutions and community capacities for ER TFM Emissions Reduction Traditional Fire Management (“ER TFM”)so as to increase resilience of local communities and ecosystems to the impacts of climate change

Mozambique faces recurrent droughts, floods, cyclones, and rising temperatures that disproportionately affect rural and low-income communities. These hazards severely undermine agricultural productivity and food security, while energy systems remain heavily reliant on climate-sensitive hydropower. With rural electricity access below 10 per cent, most rural households and small enterprises lack reliable energy to adapt to climate shocks, diversify incomes, or access basic services.

This project aims to enhance climate resilience and reduce emissions in rural Mozambique by expanding access to decentralized renewable energy and climate-smart productive use solutions, while strengthening national institutional capacity to sustainably finance and manage off-grid energy investments.

Structured around four outcomes, the project will strengthen the institutional and technical capacities of Mozambique's national energy fund, Fundo de Energia (FUNAE); support the development of mini-grids through competitive private-sector concessions; reduce emissions through solar mini-grid installation and operation; and increase climate resilience and livelihood generation through climate-smart productive use of renewable energy solutions.

By combining competitive private-sector mini-grid concessions with results-based financing for productive uses, the project addresses affordability, demand, and investment risks that have constrained rural electrification in Mozambique. The project is expected to directly benefit 66,200 people, of whom 52 per cent are women, and indirectly reach a further 158,800 people, while positioning FUNAE as a sustainable national vehicle for off-grid energy and climate finance in the long term.

Eastern and Southern Africa are highly vulnerable to climate change, facing recurrent droughts, floods, heatwaves, and increasingly erratic rainfall that intensify water stress and land degradation. These climate stresses are compounded by rapid population growth, projected to rise from around 749 million in 2023 to nearly 964 million by 2050, placing growing pressure on already overstretched infrastructure. In 2023, around 365 million people lacked access to electricity and 580 million lacked access to clean cooking, severely constraining adaptation, productivity, and health outcomes across the region.

The ASCENT-GREEN project  aims to support climate-vulnerable communities across 21 countries in Eastern and Southern Africa by catalysing private-sector delivery of distributed renewable energy, clean cooking, and productive-use energy. It seeks to increase climate resilience, drive economic development, and reduce emissions across some of the region's most remote and fragile contexts.

Structured around three components, the project will establish a regional energy access financing facility providing affordable lending, results-based financing, and technical assistance, prioritizing rural households, fragile, conflict-affected populations, small and medium-sized enterprises and women-owned enterprises; develop regional de-risking facilities including a risk-sharing facility and a carbon risk mitigation facility to crowd in private capital; and establish a Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)-led regional platform to coordinate policy, technical assistance, and knowledge sharing across participating countries.

Through financing instruments that address barriers such as affordability, risk perception, and scaling up, the project will mobilise significantly larger private flows and accelerate market transformations, enabling far greater reach. It is expected to directly benefit 28.8 million people and indirectly reach a further 13.8 million, supporting improved access to energy services and enhanced resilience across participating countries.

To support twenty-five (25) developing countries in the preparation and submission of BTRs and combined BTR/National Communications (BTR/NCs) in a gender-responsive manner that aligns with the reporting requirements of the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement (PA), while also addressing each country's unique national development priorities.

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