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From water to energy: Digitalization and innovation go hand in hand in developing hydropower in Mozambique
Akila MUNIR | 06-12-2022
By: RERD2Energia para todos (Energy for All) The Mozambican government’s ambition is clear: Energia para todos. By 2030, all Mozambican households should have access to sustainable and affordable electricity. In 2019, however, the counter stood at only 29.6%. Mozambique, therefore, faces an ...
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Mobilising climate finance for the implementation of Mozambique’s Nationally Determined Contributions under the Paris Agreement
Akila MUNIR | 29-07-2022
By Simon De Clercq, Samuel Buvane and Adriaan TasSince Mozambique signed the Paris Agreement in 2016, the country has taken several steps towards combating climate change and building climate resilience. At COP26 in Glasgow in 2021, Mozambique launched its Updated Nationally Determined Contributions...
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Mozambique: Assessing differentiated energy access through the Multi-Tier Framework (MTF), a learning survey exercise
Akila MUNIR | 31-05-2022
Human welfare has always been closely linked to an appropriate provision of energy. However, in 2019, 600 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa did not have access to electricity and about 900 million people were lacking access to clean cooking energy (IEA, 2019). Mozambique is one of the countries...
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Support to gender mainstreaming in the promotion of sustainable access to energy in Mozambique: a training-of-trainers approach
Akila MUNIR | 08-03-2022
By Esra NURJA and Evert WAETERLOOS, Enabel Mozambique As part of Enabel’s support to the Mozambican Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy (MIREME) and the Energy Regulatory Authority (ARENE), a study was commissioned to identify strategic entry points for gender mainstreaming in the promotion ...
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Towards National Junior Experts for the collection and analysis of data on the energy sector in Mozambique?
Akila MUNIR | 22-07-2021
The bilateral collaboration project between the Belgian and Mozambican government “Development of Capacity within the Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy (MIREME) and the new regulator ARENE”, faces a persistent lack of qualified human resources in MIREME for energy data collection and analysis...
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Rural electrification in Mozambique: how to find the right villages?
Akila MUNIR | 03-06-2021
By: Antoine DE CLIPPELE & Riccardo DEL CITTOMozambique has abundant resources for generating clean, accessible and sustainable energy. In 2011, the United Nations launched the Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) initiative to ensure universal access by 2030 to modern energy services, double ...
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Mozambique: How to get to the gist of Geographical Information Systems for energy sector information management?
Akila MUNIR | 28-04-2021
News by: Evert Waeterloos A wider use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) is an appealing prospect for an improved information base and coordination between the different players in Mozambique’s energy sector. Enabel and the partner Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy (MIREME) launched...
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In Mozambique, Enabel’s extension of its Study and Expertise Fund allows to mobilise expertise in the fight against climate change
Akila MUNIR | 21-01-2021
By: Jesse Waterschoot and Akila MunirEnabel’s Study and Expertise Fund in Mozambique is in place since 2014. The aim of this project is to support sectors through studies, consultancies and providing technical expertise in priority areas identified for the cooperation between Belgium and Mozambique...
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The role of alternative sources to achieve sustainable access to energy for all in Mozambique
Akila MUNIR | 24-12-2020
By: Evert Waeterloos and Akila Munir Around 2.7 billion people around the world still utilise traditional cookstoves with solid fuels such as firewood, coal and dung for daily cooking and heating. Women and girls play a pivotal role for energy provision in households, including collecting traditional...
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PEFA 2019: Technical level validation seminar of the preliminary report in Mozambique
Akila MUNIR | 16-10-2020
By: Jesse Waterschoot and Damiano Stella, Enabel Mozambique The Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) assessment of the Mozambican health sector was launched in March 2020 with a seminar. Since then, the consultants have gathered the necessary documentation for conducting their analysis...
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Mainstreaming gender in the (renewable) energy sector in Mozambique
Akila MUNIR | 05-06-2020
By: Evert Waeterloos, Enabel Mozambique Energy inequality and genderThe world today faces a significant energy divide between rich and poor countries, with more than 95% of the world’s population lacking access to electricity and clean cooking facilities living in sub-Saharan Africa and developing...
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PEFA 2019 seminar assessment launch and workshop on Mozambique’s health sector
Akila MUNIR | 29-04-2020
By: J. Waterschoot and D. Stella The Ministry of Health and the Development Partners agreed upon a harmonised PFM analysis plan. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the Health sector common fund, known as PROSAUDE, foresaw a PFM analysis plan that became the basis of the Harmonised plan; The...
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Mozambique: A year later: slowly recovering from Idai cyclone, but shielding from Covid-19
Akila MUNIR | 06-04-2020
By Evert WAETERLOOS, Enabel MaputoOn March 15th last year, a major humanitarian crisis hit Mozambique. Cyclone Idai brought heavy rains and floods to the provinces of Tete, Manica, Niassa, Zambezia and Sofala, and destroyed most of the city of Beira (see Van de Velde, A. and E.Waeterloos ‘Climate...
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Rural renewable energy use and the challenge of clear communication
Akila MUNIR | 23-12-2019
By A. de Clippele and E. Waeterloos, Enabel Mozambique Sustainable access to energy is an important vector to improve the living conditions of the rural population of Mozambique. Not only can sustainable energy access facilitate day-to-day life by extending hours for food preparation, studying...
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Kick-starting the Baseline Study of the second phase of the Renewable Energy for Rural Development Project (RERD2)
Anke VANDEVELDE | 01-04-2019
In the first week of March, Management for Development (MDF) consultant Ingrid Plag paid a visit to Enabel projects in Mozambique to provide hands-on support to the baseline studies. For the Capacity Building project at the Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy (CB MIREME) this exercise formed...