The African Development Bank Group has set an aspirational vision to achieve universal access to electricity by 2025 – 100 per cent access in urban areas, 95 per cent access in rural areas, and sufficient uninterrupted energy supply to cover demand needs for those who are grid-connected. This vision is encapsulated in the New Deal on Energy for Africa (NDEA) and is a more aggressive target than the UN’s Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) and Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7) that targets universal access by 2030.
This paper tracks the AfDB energy sector financing in Zimbabwe past and current, and compares the findings with those obtained in secondary data on AfDB financial flows conducted by the ACCESS coalition sourced from East Africa particularly Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. The focus is on investments and technical support provided to governments, civil society, and the private sector approved between 2014-2021. In addition, projects in the pipeline as of January 2022 for which data was publicly available were considered.
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