Kick-off meeting – 6th application round geothermal GRMF facility, 6 May 2020
Awarded projects of GRMF rounds 1 to 5 (source: GRMF)
Alexander Richter
20 Apr 2020
The Geothermal Risk Mitigation Facility (GRMF) will be holding a webinar-based kick-off meeting for the 6th Application Round of the facility in Africa. Date is 6 May 2020 at 02 pm (GMT+3).
The Geothermal Risk Mitigation Facility (GRMF) has announced the date for the kick-off meeting for the 6th Application Round of the Geothermal Risk Mitigation Facility (GRMF). Despite these difficult times, caused by the Covid19 pandemic, GRMF remains fully operational.
The kick-off will be held on 6th of May 2020 from 02:00 pm to 4:30 pm (Addis Ababa time (GMT+3)).
Due to the current Covid-19 pandemic, the meeting will be conducted using webinar software.
More information about the webinar will follow shortly. Please check https://grmf-eastafrica.org/ for further updates.
The Geothermal Risk Mitigation Facility (GRMF) was established to fund, facilitate, and accelerate geothermal development in eleven partner countries in the Eastern African Rift region. It is hosted and managed by the African Union Commission (AUC). Funding is provided by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) together with the EU-Africa Infrastructure Trust Fund (EU Africa ITF) via KfW Development Bank (KfW), and the UK Department for International Development (DFID).The GRMF was launched in 2012. It conducts a series of Application Rounds to identify eligible and bankable projects and determine appropriate project funding levels. The 5th Application Round was finalised in October 2018. The GRMF programme has a total funding volume of approximately USD 115 million, which may be increased at the donors‘ discretion.
