National launch of the ‘ROGEAP’ in Cameroon: the project is being extended to countries in Central Africa

The ECOWAS ROGEAP – Regional Off-Grid Electricity Access Project (ROGEAP) officially launched its activities on Friday 18 August 2023 in Yaoundé, Cameroon. The seminar was attended by representatives from theECOWAS Commission, the Cameroonian Ministry of Water and Energy, the World Bank and stakeholders from the public and private sectors, including civil society organisations, professional associations, the media, NGOs and commercial banks in Cameroon.

During the seminar, a presentation was given to participants on the mechanism for implementing the ‘ROGEAP’ project across the 19 Member States involved in this initiative, namely the 15 countries of the ‘ECOWAS’ and four other countries in sub-Saharan Africa: the Central African Republic, Cameroon, Chad and Mauritania. The workshop also provided an opportunity to raise awareness of off-grid solar photovoltaic technologies, with a view to facilitating the establishment of a regulatory framework conducive to the development of the off-grid solar photovoltaic market in Cameroon.

In Yaoundé, the seminar was officially opened by Mr Laurent Ngouiga, Technical Adviser No. 1, representing the Minister for Water and Energy of Cameroon, in the presence of Mr Momodou NJIE, Senior Energy Specialist at the World Bank, and Mr Arnaud Kouadio BA, Monitoring and Evaluation Expert at the West African Economic and Monetary Union (ROGEAP), representing Commissioner Sédiko Douka, responsible for Infrastructure, Energy and Digitalisation at the West African Economic and Monetary Union (ECOWAS).