Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP)

Type of Recipient
Public entity at the national level
Public entity at the sub-national level
Public entity at the regional level
Region
East Asia and Pacific
Europe and Central Asia
Middle East and North Africa
South Asia
Sub-Saharan Africa
Fund Size

$ 811.9 million

Co-financing Requirement
No
Sectors and Themes
Energy
Climate Objective
Mitigation
Type of Support Provider
Multilateral
Trustee or Administrator
World Bank
Contact Information

ESMAP is a think tank whose world-class experts gather and analyze data on energy access, cooking practices, renewable energy expansion, and end-use decarbonization solutions in hard-to-abate sectors including energy efficiency practices. Drawing from multiple sources, their teams develop global and country-specific data sets whose comprehensive rigor has gained the confidence of partners including governments, private investors, utility managers, and policymakers, among others.

 

Support Provider

Major government donors include Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom and the World Bank

Purpose of Support
Strengthening enabling environments and stakeholder capacity
Funding Type
Grants
In-kind contributions
Monitoring and Reporting Procedures

ESMAP M&E system includes bi-annually monitoring reports, justifications for extension of grant closing date,outputs and outcomes indicators, grant completion report.

Organizational and Decision Making Structure

ESMAP is governed by a Consultative Group (CG) comprising representatives from contributing donors and chaired by the Senior Director of the World Bank's Energy and Extractives Practice Group. The CG meets annually to review ESMAP's strategic direction, achievements, use of resources and funding requirements.

The World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) also reviews and assesses the performance of all World Bank Global Trust-Funded Programs.  This includes an evaluation of ESMAP against its business plans, investment frameworks, and the effectiveness and efficiency of the deployment of trust fund resources. In addition, IEG assesses the World Bank's management and accountability for the use of trust fund resources and the impact of trust funds on the World Bank's development role. Read the most recent IEG evaluation

ESMAP's latest Independent External Evaluation completed in March 2020 is a requirement by the World Bank to review the performance of programs reaching the end of their business plans. On this occasion, the evaluation covers the 2017-2020 Business Plan.  A Briefing Note was also prepared aiming at synthetizing the contents of the full evaluation.  As customary, following the evaluation's recommendations, ESMAP Management prepared a response.

The previous Independent External Evaluation covered a four-year period from July 2011 to June 2015.  Two years of the previous (2008-2013) and the subsequent (2014-2016) ESMAP business plans, and one year of the previous ASTAE business plan and three years of the ASTAE business plan (2012-2016).  With both these business plans having reached their end date, the World Bank Group (WBG) required an external evaluator to review the performance of ESMAP and ASTAE against their respective business plans and investment frameworks. As a follow up to the evaluation's recommendations, the ESMAP Management Team prepared a response.

Eligibility Criteria

ESMAP’s analytical and advisory services are fully integrated within the World Bank’s country financing and policy dialogue in the energy sector. 

Please contact ESMAP for additional details on eligibility criteria for specific services. 

Eligible Countries

ODA eligible countries may access funding. These consist of all low and middle income countries based on gross national income (GNI) per capita as published by the World Bank.

Information on how to

Access funding by referencing the World Bank Group's country financing and policy dialogue in the energy sector. Find information regarding the WBG energy sector here. Reference ongoing activities here.