The World Bank has approved $125m in funding for the Third Energy Sector Development Policy Operation (DPO). The loan is the third and final part of a $375m programme aimed at supporting the energy sector objectives in Rwanda’s National Strategy for Transformation (NST1), which aims to lay the foundations for achieving upper-middle-income country status by 2035 and high-income status by 2050. The first DPO was approved in December 2017.