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Development of a medium term public expenditure plan in the Mauritanian energy
| Country : | Mauritania. . |
| Client : | PARSEAE - Projet d'Appui à la Réforme des Secteurs de l'Eau, de l'Assainissement et de l'Energie |
| Start Date : | 2003 |
| Completion Date : | 2003 |
| Value of services : | 37 280€ |
| Funder : | World Bank |
| Associate/Partner : | N/A |
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| Description : |
The IED task has been to define the set of public expenditures in the energy sector in Mauritania, for the years 2004, 2005 and 2006. To come out onto a better efficiency of the public action, this work had to answer to a set of criterions : consultation of all the concerned actors, the highlights of the development mechanisms of the sector and the take on charge of the objectives of poverty reduction, expenditures rationalisation, investment plans visibility and the induced costs repartition. The actors assembled in thematic groups for the supervision of the energy CDMT (Medium term public expenditure plan) preparation were : the Electricity direction (coordinator), the Hydrocarbons direction, the MHE administrative direction, the national OMVS committee, the PAERSEAE, the national harnessing of energy committee, the universal access agency, the rural electrification agency, the SOMELEC, the Mauritanian centre of political analysis. |
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| Description of the Actual Services Provided | The purpose of the first step was to underline a strategic vision for the sector development : - Analysing the national energy system, with an particular accent on the electricity social demand et on the consequent development of the electricity market, - Bringing out the correlation with the poverty reduction strategic framework, - Undertaking an examination of the present institutional framework, - Analysing the public expenditures during the years 1997 up to 2002. From this analysis, the consultant brought out an action plan : - for the hydrocarbons sub sector, - for the electricity sub sector, - for the national energetic assessment. Each one of the three action plan served as a basis of the elaboration of a budget-programme 2004-2006, after having stipulated inclusion in the budget rules and put in coherence investments proposed by the different actors. The synthesis table makes appear a total investment need of 42 billions UM that calls several supervision measures and costs harnessing and that constitutes also a signal on the saving potential from the energy harnessing. |