Details
- Identification
- EvalRef 2021-F-2869, Evaluation contract C-426780, Evaluated references D-39761
- Publication date
- 20 April 2022
- Author
- Directorate-General for International Partnerships
Description
The 11th EDF Barbados Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Budget Support programme was designed in 2016, against a background context of political stability for the country, with good governance standards and strong institutions. The Ministry of Energy, Small Business and Entrepreneurship was originally set up in 1978 as an ‘Energy Division’ under the Ministry of Trade, based on TA recommendations commissioned by the UK’s Overseas Development Administration (ODA). Since then, the Ministry has evolved into an organisation with a widened remit covering responsibility for oil and gas, renewable energy, and energy conservation (having amalgamated with the Energy Conservation Unit). The Ministry also provides geological and earth science services to other Government departments, as well as to the private sector.
The Ministry of Energy, Small Business and Entrepreneurship is today comprised of an Administrative Unit, Legal & Regulatory Unit, Natural Resources Department, Renewable Energy & Energy Conservation Unit, Research & Planning Unit, Project Execution Unit and Project Monitoring Unit.
The main users of this evaluation are the EU Delegation to Barbados, INTPA G1, C6, The Ministry of Energy, Small business and Entrepreneurship, The Ministry of Finance, Economic Affairs, and Investment.