| Overview : The Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) are both implementing agencies of the Global Environment Facility (GEF). The GEF provides funding to developing countries to address environment and climate change issues. Countries that are eligible for funding from the GEF can access such financial resources through implementing agencies of the GEF, a role played by DBSA and UNDP in this project. Funding is available to projects that meet the following criteria: Alignment with the country’s development priorities and programmes, and endorsement by the country’s GEF Operational Focal Point (OFP); Consistency with the GEF strategy; Address one or more of the GEF Focal Areas (and cross-cutting issues and programmes), advancing the prospect of reducing risk to, or improving, the global environment; Seek GEF financing only for the incremental costs of measures to achieve global environmental benefits; and Co-finance i.e. projects that are able to attract financing and leveraging of funds from other sources
Therefore, the government of South Africa through its Department of Energy, with support from DBSA and the UNDP South Africa Country Office (herein after referred to as UNDP), seek to acquire the services of an experienced consultant with extensive knowledge and experience in setting up or developing financing schemes to accelerate the implementation of energy efficiency initiatives. The objective of the assignment is to advise and develop a potential funding mechanism suitable for encouraging and increasing the uptake of LED lighting and energy efficient distribution transformers through the implementation of the “Leapfrogging South Africa’s Markets to High-Efficiency LED Lighting and High Efficiency Distribution Transformers” project. |
