Nigeria Power Sector Program SIEE-EMMP 2018-2023

Launched in April 2018, NPSP employs a flexible approach to develop, deploy, evaluate, and sustain various interventions and activities responding to Nigeria's critical needs and the broader economic, political, and social developments of the power sector throughout the next five years. NPSP aims to increase electricity availability, access, and reliability throughout Nigeria, while measuring objective progress across five thematic technical areas: gas, on-grid generation, off-grid generation, transmission, and distribution. The program also focuses on improving the enabling environment for private sector participation in the power sector. To achieve these objectives, NPSP will unlock power supply, expand on- and off-grid access, improve sector liquidity, and enhance the enabling environment. The NPSP's technical programming involves several interventions, including smart metering, off-grid sector support, and bringing transactions to financial close. These interventions have been determined as negative determinations with conditions in the Power Africa 2 Programmatic IEE. Positive determinations are usually relevant to activities requiring construction of major infrastructure, which could have a significant effect on the environment. However, NPSP will not be involved directly in the construction and operation phases of transactions, and therefore, there should be no NPSP activity that receives a positive determination. The Supplemental Initial Environmental Examination (SIEE) for NPSP presents a systematic analysis of the proposed actions, their potential impacts, and the relevant determinations and conditions. The SIEE assesses whether the determinations and conditions are appropriate and adequate, proposes final determinations and conditions language, and outlines the plan for subsidiary review and reporting. The SIEE also stipulates nine specific conditions that must be implemented and complied with, as applicable, and expects reports on compliance in the NPSP annual reports and the Power Africa Environmental Compliance Annual Report. NPSP inherited approximately 43 transactions from the Power Africa Transactions and Reform Program (PATRP) that have undergone environmental and social screening. NPSP will track the progress of these transactions through Power Africa's transaction maturity stages and conduct additional rescreening as the transactions progress. For new and existing transactions, NPSP will follow a systematic approach to proactively identify, manage, and mitigate the potential environmental impact of each transaction. The activities directly supporting the development, installation, and construction of energy sources and technologies listed in Section 5.0 of the Environmental Management and Mitigation Plan (EMMP) will not be funded by USAID. Rather, USAID Power Africa will only provide technical assistance for these activities. The technical assistance will require that project developers and proponents follow the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) regulatory requirements for Nigeria, including the development of ESIA reports and associated documents. In Annex 1, Table 5 of the EMMP, entitled "Sample Environmental Mitigation and Monitoring Plan by Energy Source," presents the impact, mitigation, and monitoring measures proposed by NPSP for these activities directly supporting the development, construction, and operation of energy sources and technologies. The plan outlines the measures to be taken to mitigate the potential environmental impacts of these activities, including the development of environmental mitigation and monitoring plans, the implementation of environmental monitoring and reporting systems, and the provision of training and capacity-building programs for project developers and proponents.