Accelerating the adoption and scale-up of electric mobility for low-carbon city development in the Philippines Reduce GHG emissions from transport in the Philippines through e-mobility industry development Note: Disbursement data provided is cumulative and covers disbursement made by the project Agency. 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Other direct beneficiaries are expected in the private and public sector as recipients of trainings and knowledge exchange through connecting with regional and global platforms. Assuming that 40% of the population of the targeted cities will be permanent users of e-jeepneys and e-buses, the project will indirectly benefit 1,167,246 people. The project will impact a wide scope of inhabitants due to cleaner air.The estimation of number of direct beneficiaries is 91,100 beneficiaries (54560 women, 36540 men). The total number consists of the following:Number of trainees in all technical and institutional workshops and training sessions: 500 (40% women)Number of municipal population (90,600) that will use e-jeepneys and e-buses using deployed charging infrastructure (60% women)The project will create socio-economic benefits at that national and local level by supporting Philippine’s electric vehicle market continue to develop, in turn creating co-benefits in the form of new jobs along the EV value chain in the Philippines, a reduction in the Philippine’s contribution to GHG emissions globally, and improvements in national and local air quality. Electric vehicles have emerged as a key technological solution to decarbonizing the transport sector and Philippines’s decision to pursue development of their own EV automotive sector nationally creates synergies to meet climate targets while creating opportunities for people to work, develop new technological skills and improve the quality of life in local communities. The project supports this through the development of support programme for entrepreneurs and SMEs working on electric mobility and supports inclusivity by dedicated attention to women entrepreneurs working in the space and support opportunities for women to work in the labour market in the Philippines. From a gender perspective, the project also supports development of safe, clean and efficient transport for men and women, in turn supporting economic growth by reducing travel time and providing reliable modes of transport through new proposed policy and planning measures. Please see the ESMP for further details.Project interventions will contribute to several co-benefits, including accelerating the development of renewable energy and decarbonization of the grid and the electricity sector (through charging stations powered by renewable energy), the improvement of air quality and reduction of GHG emissions in the transportation sector, and the development of EV industry sector. These co-benefits can be quantified and described in more detail below:  1. Improvement of the air quality through the reduction of air pollutants emission from transport. Due to introduction of electric vehicles and the establishment of electric vehicles charging stations integrated with renewable energy systems within the Project there will be co-benefits of reducing major air pollutants like NOx, SO2, PM10. The pilot use of electric vehicles will replace some existing public transport vehicles including jeepneys which are diesel-run and have an average age of more than 20 years with relatively high exhaust pipe emissions of air pollutants. This will result in reduced concentrations of air pollutants especially particulate matter and improve air quality along the operating routes, and thus will benefit local people and users of public transport vehicles including women and children. This is expected to directly reduce the following pollutants in the project lifetime: particulate matter by 26,151 tones, NOx by 1,244,627 tons and SO2 by 3,011 tons. In addition, the interventions of the project (both the policy, demonstration, and capacity building and knowledge exchange) and are expected to indirectly reduce the following pollutants: particulate matter by 61,018 tones, NOx by 2,904,130 tons and SO2 by 7,027 tons.   2. Development of renewable energy and decarbonization of the grid and the electricity sector through the contribution to the increased installed capacity of PV systems by 1250 kW and additional deployment of the renewable energy systems through scaling up activities.                       [1] Gender and Transport, Discussion Paper No. 2011-11, International Transport Forum