ESF DOCUMENTS 

The Federal Republic of Nigeria (the Recipient) will implement the Nigeria Distributed Access to Renewable Energy Scale-Up Project (DARES) with the involvement of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA) as set out in the Financing Agreement. The International Development Association (the Association) has agreed to provide the original financing for the Project as set out in the referred agreement.

As required by the World Bank, the REA has prepared the following documents prior to project implementation:

The purpose of these documents is to ensure environmental and social risks and impacts that are associated with proposed project activities are identified and avoided. Where avoidance is not possible, such risks and impacts will be minimized and mitigated.