SERVICES PROVIDED BY STRATEGY & ECONOMICS

 

Project activities included:

NERC design, process and policy – assisting NERC to finalise its structure, identify required resources and to recruit permanent staff.  We helped NERC to develop its strategy, identify its policy priorities and to establish internal procedures.

Transfer of knowledge and capacity building – the main body of the project is focused on building NERC capacity during the development of the key elements of the regulatory framework, including:

• Licensing of industry operators

• Development of interim and ultimately final pricing/tariff arrangements

• Development of technical codes

• Creation of customer protection policies

• Development of competitive power purchase arrangements

• Production of a communications strategy

Training delivery included formal regulatory, skills-based and functional courses / seminars as well as ‘on-the-job’ training on a day to day basis.  Training modules included:: Regulatory Governance (Overview of Regulation Policy Design and Delivery) – two day course; Economics for Non-Economists – two day course; Engineering for Non-Engineers – one day course; Customer Service – one day course; Basic Finance – one day course; Power Sector Reform, Structure and Institutions – two day course. Each training module was delivered to approximately fifteen staff.

Support on major Government reform initiatives – we supported the NERC in its formal role in the development of the Government’s Rural Electrification Strategy, and similarly in the Government’s policy for encouraging private sector participation in Distribution Cluster Units.