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Our colleague Mr Grace BIRIKADDE of the Ugandan National Environment Management Authority shares the enclosed document.

The Rural Electrification Agency of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development has scheduled the Energy for Rural Transformation program (ERT).

"In November 2001, the World Bank approved the program as a three-phase Adaptable Program Loan (APL). The purpose of the ERT program is to develop Uganda’s energy and information/communication technologies (ICT) sectors, so that they make a significant contribution to bringing about rural transformation, i.e., these sectors facilitate a significant improvement in the productivity of enterprises as well as the quality of life of households."

"… ERT phase 2 was declared effective on November 25, 2009 and will run for a period of four years. The aim of the second phase is to accelerate investments and increase regional coverage by shifting from the Phase I case-by-case approach to processing sub-projects through the institutional framework developed in phase 1."

"… Under ERT II, the Rural Electrification Agency (REA) will be responsible for implementing the major part of the Rural Energy Infrastructure component, especially physical infrastructure development…"

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