The project aimed to support the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare of Liberia in increasing access to reliable health care in rural and peri-urban health facilities in Liberia through providing modern, affordable and sustainable energy sources to the facilities. The project will establish a database of all rural and peri-urban health clinics energy needs; install solar PV in rural and peri-urban health clinics; capacity building of all stakeholders in Solar PV technology; establish a solar maintenance unit; and raise community awareness.
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Implementer |
Medical Emergency Relief International (Merlin) ; Save the Children (last 8 months); |
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Donors and budget |
EU ( 1,489,866 Euro); total planned budget 2,000,000 |
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Start and end date |
August 2011 to September 2014 |
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Aims/objectives |
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Geographic coverage |
In all counties of Liberia |
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Target groups |
Rural and peri-urban communities and their health facilities |
Results and Impact
204 health facilities have received PV systems and 1215 local people have been trained in the PV maintenance. The PV-electrification has improved the quality of the offered. Sustainability has been integral in the design by a central maintenance unit but as the Ministry of Health could not fund the unit GIZ committed to temporary run the unit.
