Tonga Renewable Energy Project under the Pacific Islands Renewable Energy Investment Program

The project executing entities will be (i) the MFNP for the overall project implementation, especially for disbursement of funds; (ii) Tonga Power Limited (TPL) for Outputs 1 and 2; (iii) and the Ministry of Meteorology, Energy, Information, Disaster Management, Climate Change and Communications (MEIDECC) for Output 3. TPL and MEIDECC will be joint executing entities for Output 4 (Project Management Capacity Building). The PMU established in MEIDECC under the ongoing OIREP will also be the TREP-PMU. Figure 10 illustrates the project organizational arrangements.

The PMU will provide the project management services to all executing entities. An Environment and Social Unit (ESU) will be formed by the PMU and will be tasked with all social and environmental monitoring and reporting for TREP. This will include regular environmental audits for all construction activities, as well as monitoring of all project activities in relation to resettlement and gender. The PMU will be staffed by (but not limited to) the following: a Project Manager; Ongrid Team Leader; Off-grid Team Leader; Administrative Officer; Financial and Procurement officer; and Environment and Social Safeguards Officer. Under Output 4, both project management consulting (PMC) and construction supervision consulting (CSC) services will be mobilized and, financed under TREP, to support PMU operations and support the capacity building activities. These organizational arrangements are designed to ensure optimal technology transfer and capacity development of MEIDECC, TPL staff and staff of other Tongan stakeholders.