Source · Select Committees · International Development Committee
Recommendation 30
30
Accepted
Ensure multilateral funding scales community energy projects, empowering beneficiaries through global leadership and best practices
Recommendation
The Government should ensure that funding through multilaterals offers opportunities to scale community energy projects. It should take a global leadership role to guarantee that communities benefit from energy access projects in ways that empower them. This could include facilitating the development of best practice guidelines, encouraging knowledge sharing on successful models and supporting co-designed pilot initiatives that demonstrate replicable approaches. (Recommendation, Paragraph 91) 36
Government Response Summary
The government accepts this recommendation, stating it already leads by example through domestic commitments and engagement with Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) to scale energy access and ensure community benefits. It commits to continue influencing and driving innovations from significant multilateral investments.
Government Response
Accepted
HM Government
Accepted
Government Response: Agree 70. The FCDO agrees with this, and we are leading by example with our domestic commitments, mobilising public and private capital, forging partnerships, working with partners and utilising the expertise of UK PLC including from industry, private sector and our universities to accelerate and scale support for the global transition to a low-carbon future. 71. The FCDO seeks to ensure that all its programmes have a robust monitoring and evaluation approach to ensure that learnings on best practices and pilot initiatives are disseminated, to maximise the potential demonstration effect. This enables our bilateral programming to inform the multilateral system. 72. The UK’s long-running engagement with key Multilateral Development Bank (MDB) energy access instruments and dedicated funds, including the World Bank Group’s Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme (ESMAP) and African Development Bank’s Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA), has provided foundational support for Mission 300 and the associated initiatives that the MDBs are developing to scale energy access in support of countries delivering on their Mission 300 compacts. UK contributions to these MDB funds have provided a conduit for cross learning with our bilateral programmes, for mutual benefit and impact. We intend to continue this engagement in the coming period, further to the UK decision to emphasise multilateralism as a 0.3% donor, and actively influence, inform and drive innovations and community benefits from the significant multilateral investments in energy access under Mission 300.