The preparation of the public tender for mini-grids under GET FiT Mozambique includes pre-feasibility studies, environmental licensing, and land adjudication in each of the preselected sites.
On Monday, 20 October 2025, these site preparation activities in the field officially saw its start with a Kick-Off event at the Grand Plaza Hotel in Nampula City.
The Kick-off was overseen by the Director of Provincial Infrastructure Services (SPI) who held an opening note, emphasizing the importance of the project to bring sustainable energy to the people of Nampula. The provincial delegate of FUNAE (the national Energy Fund responsible for renewable energy development and off-grid energy access) represented FUNAE as a key intervention partner. The Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy were present, emphasizing that GET FiT is a government led programme with strong support from the central government.
The GET FiT programme was introduced by Ms. Mari Sofie Furu, Project Director and in depth presentation made by the Mini-grid Project Manager, Mr. Emmett Costel, representing Multiconsult Norge AS as Programme Implementation Consultant. The kick-off also featured a presentation by FUNAE of their experiences and lessons learned of mini-grid construction and operations.
The Kick-off activities continued with presentation of the field work plan and a review of all sites to be visited during the coming weeks and months.
On the next day, the activities continued with pilot implementation of the pre-feasibility studies and community consultations in three sites in Ribaué District. From there, several teams will spread across the province of Nampula in 15 districts, to undertake the field work, following the methodology established in the work plan and tested in the pilot sites.
The result of the work will be provisional DUATs (land use rights), concluded environmental licensing processes, and site briefs, including demographic information, energy usage projections, and potential for productive uses of energy, to be included in the tender’s Request for Bids, for each site.
