The development objective of the Energy and Mineral Sector Strengthening Project for Brazil is to improve the contribution of energy and mining resources to accelerated national economic growth and increased social and environmental sustainability in a context of globalization and technological change. There are four components to the project. The first component is strengthening the capacity of the government to drive the sustainable development of the energy and mineral sectors. This component will support for strengthening the capacity of the borrower and the participating entities in the areas of planning, social and environmental sustainability, and in managing, evaluating and monitoring activities under their responsibility. The second component is strengthening of regulatory institutions. This component will support for: (a) strengthening the frameworks governing the legal, institutional, and oversight functions and responsibilities of the Participating Entities; and (b) capacity building for the formulation of policies, regulations and guidelines on the energy and mineral sectors. The third component is technology development. This component will support for the development and use of cutting edge technologies to: (i) improve research and development capacity of the borrower's power sector to transport efficiently and reliably large blocks of energy across continent-wide distances; and (ii) enhance the capacity of the geological survey. The fourth component is support to south-south cooperation. This component support to Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) and to selected borrower's agencies and entities (to be selected by the Borrower and to be acceptable to the Bank) to: (a) assist them in, inter alia, developing internal procedures and information and/or knowledge systems for purposes of carrying out south-south cooperation between Brazil and participating c