Access to Energy Fund zie 4000002350 The Access to Energy Fund (AEF) established by FMO and DGIS in 2007, is an investment fund that focuses on pro-jects for energy access in developing countries. Since its inception, AEF has improved the availability and quality of renewable energy generation and distribution ca-pacity and has built up a diverse renewable energy portfolio. The fund has proven to meet a need in terms of access to energy and to be additional and catalytic. The current investment mandate expires 31 December 2018. Building on the recommendations from the AEF eval-uation (completed 2017 Q1) and the announcement of the establishment of a Dutch Fund for Climate and Development (DFCD), FMO has requested DGIS: - An extension of the investment mandate to 31 De-cember 2028 - A EUR 40 million top up - Some amendments to the current investment crite-ria, allowing for investments in developing countries outside SSA and investments targeting SMEs (in ad-dition to households) - A EUR 5 mln envelope (out of the overall AEF Fund capital) exempt from revolvability to be used for technical assistance, capacity development and pro-ject specific monitoring <(>&<)> evaluation activities.