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Improving Utility Governance and Management in West Africa

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dc.contributor.authorWorld Bank
dc.date.accessioned2025-04-10T18:49:11Z
dc.date.available2025-04-10T18:49:11Z
dc.date.issued2025-04-10
dc.description.abstractMost power utilities in West Africa are not financially sustainable. Several interrelated factors cause these performance issues, but dependence on liquid fuels, poor governance, insufficient use of information technology (IT), and weak balance sheets are particularly common and acute challenges. This paper is one of a series of three that aim to help West African utilities and governments - and the development financiers that support them - better understand and respond to these issues. The focus in the papers is primarily on utilities with a distribution function (that is, distribution-only utilities, transmission and distribution utilities, or vertically integrated utilities), but examples from other types of utilities (transmission only, generation and transmission) are drawn on when instructive. Though each paper’s approach is tailored to its topic, they share common features. Each paper contains: (i) a stocktaking of the scope of the challenge in West African utilities, sometimes informed by new data collected for that paper; (ii) conceptual frameworks to help readers deepen their understanding of the topic; and (iii) real-world country examples in the form of case studies and or utility deep dives. The insights presented in these papers draw on lessons learned from past World Bank engagement with client utilities and, in turn, have helped shape ongoing Bank operations.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099040225110020935
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/43055
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/43055
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWashington, DC: World Bank
dc.rightsCC BY-NC 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/igo
dc.subjectAFFORDABLE AND CLEAN ENERGY
dc.subjectECONOMIC GROWTH
dc.subjectLIQUID FUELS
dc.subjectSUSTAINABLE FINANCE
dc.subjectPOOR GOVERNANCE
dc.subjectSTRONG INSTITUTIONS
dc.titleImproving Utility Governance and Management in West Africaen
dc.typeESMAP Paper
dspace.entity.typePublication
okr.date.disclosure2025-04-10
okr.date.doiregistration2025-04-14T11:52:11.737441Z
okr.date.lastmodified2025-04-05T20:04:11Zen
okr.doctypeESMAP Paper
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099040225110020935
okr.guid099040225110020935
okr.identifier.docmidP180988-fc0e2089-e17b-4c84-b436-08618042d3c6
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum40004776
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum40004776
okr.identifier.report200234
okr.import.id7076
okr.importedtrueen
okr.language.supporteden
okr.pdfurlhttps://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099040225110020935/pdf/P180988-fc0e2089-e17b-4c84-b436-08618042d3c6.pdfen
okr.region.geographicalCentral Africa
okr.region.geographicalWest Africa
okr.sectorFY17 - Energy Transmission and Distribution
okr.sectorEnergy and Extractives
okr.themeFY17 - Energy Policies & Reform,FY17 - State-owned Enterprise Reform and Privatization,FY17 - Public Administration,FY17 - Energy,FY17 - Transparency, Accountability and Good Governance,FY17 - Access to Energy
okr.themeFY17 - Public Sector Management,FY17 - Environment and Natural Resource Management
okr.topicEnergy::Fuels
okr.topicEnergy::Energy Resources Development
okr.topicEnergy::Energy Policies & Economics
okr.topicEnergy::Energy Consumption
okr.unitEnergy & Extractives AFR4 (IAWE4)
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