Environmental and social safeguards (ESS) report for FP291/2: Additional Finance: Accelerating Sustainable & Clean Energy Access Transformation (ASCENT) – Regional Energy Access Acceleration Platform (REAAP)

Cover date: 02 Oct 2026
Document type: Environmental and Social Safeguards report, Sub-project ESS report
Organization: The World Bank / International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / International Development Association
Countries: Botswana, Burundi, Comoros (the), Democratic Republic of the Congo (the), Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Project: ASCENT-GREEN: Resilient Energy Access for Inclusive Development

This document presents relevant environmental and social safeguards (ESS) information about FP291: ASCENT-GREEN: Resilient Energy Access for Inclusive Development, specifically for the sub-project "Additional Finance: Accelerating Sustainable & Clean Energy Access Transformation (ASCENT) – Regional Energy Access Acceleration Platform (REAAP)". Project and programme funding proposals that have environmental or social impacts are required to provide these reports as annexes to the funding proposals.