Fifth Call for Proposal for Participating Financial Institutions (PFIs) under the Yemen Emergency Electricity Access Project

Through this Call for Proposals, UNOPS will engage eligible Participating Financial Institutions (PFIs) and distributors [1], some of whom operate either alone or in partnership with each other, and help them set up financing windows for high-quality, small-scale solar solutions for rural and peri-urban households and provide grants to beneficiaries to make systems affordable.

UNOPS will make available 2,986 high quality off-grid energy access products to PFIs and distributors to be distributed to eligible rural and peri-urban households, offering partial grants to the PFIs based on cash or credit terms of said products.

[1] Financial institutions include any microfinance bank, microfinance institution or other local entity providing micro-credits, which is registered as a financial institution, or non-governmental organization, or other association, pursuant to the laws of the Republic of Yemen, and approved by UNOPS to participate as a financier of solar products and small-scale solar systems.