Cameroon: African Development Bank launches project to tackle electricity metering challenges
The African
Development Bank and the multi-donor Fund for African Private Sector Assistance
(FAPA) have joined the government of Cameroon to launch an initiative to
bolster the deployment of electricity metering services in the country.
The Bank and FAPA
will provide technical assistance to the government through the Electricity
Sector Regulatory Agency, ARSEL. This includes facilitating feasibility studies
for the ringfencing of metering services, drafting of regulations to address
the gaps and sensitization workshops.
On behalf of the
Bank’s Central Africa regional operations manager, principal country economist
Claude Nkodia said the project would support national efforts to provide
efficient electricity metering services. “Collectively, these efforts will
reduce the current metering gap, estimated at 1.8 million meters in 2017,” he
said.
Adolphe Ndjouke
Thome, Secretary-General of the Ministry of Water Resources and Energy, said
the project will increase and safeguard competitive metering services and
encourage more private sector involvement. The technical assistance provided
aligns with the Bank’s commitment to create an enabling environment for private
investment in the energy sector, including tackling policy and regulatory
challenges.
FAPA, administered
by the Bank, is a thematic trust fund that provides grants for technical
assistance and capacity building to support the Bank’s Private Sector
Development Strategy. In addition to the Bank, the Government of Japan, the
Austrian Development Bank and the Government of Austria are the contributors.
The project is a
response to the findings of the Bank's Electricity Regulatory Index for Africa
report, which evaluates the progress of regulatory frameworks across the
continent and recommends actions for improvement. For Cameroun, one of the
recommendations was to enhance the quality of service and loss reduction.
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