Management Support to LEC Sub-Activity. This Sub-Activity aims to support implementation of the management arrangement for LEC selected by the Government informed by a study of public management and private sector participation options for LEC over the medium and long term to determine which is most likely to lead to a financially sustainable utility. The form of assistance will depend on the management arrangement selected, but could, for example, include technical assistance to LEC management and staff in the case that a public management option is selected, or funding and technical assistance to execute a transaction for a private sector management option.
Management Support to LEC Sub-Activity. This Sub-Activity aims to support the tendering and implementation of a management services contract for LEC. This short- term plan, selected by the GoL and informed by a study of public management and private sector participation options for LEC, will help lead to a financially sustainable utility. Other management options, such as a concession, are still within LEC’s long- term vision for the utility. The LEC Training Center Activity aims to improve capacity in the sector by building LEC’s technical, operational, financial, and administrative capacity, and forming the core base for training of technicians in the electricity sector. The Mt. Coffee Support Activity aims to provide additional support to the Mt. Coffee Rehabilitation Activity to mitigate environmental and social risks and ensure long-term sustainability. For example, MCC funding will support: the provision of small-scale community infrastructure (e.g., bridges) in order to ensure communities and/or settlements surrounding the MCHPP reservoir are not permanently blocked from accessing their farms, settlements, and/or other social services (e.g., health clinics, schools); additional human resources support to LEC, including the Project Implementation Unit (PIU), to ensure timely and professional management, oversight and reporting of environmental and social impacts and risks; a watershed management plan (including climate change and fisheries studies); and rehabilitation of the raw water transmission line from MCHPP to the White Plains Water Treatment Works. Finally, the Energy Project will also include technical assistance support to strengthen socially inclusive and gender-responsive planning and implementation capacity of MLME and LEC as a part of the Energy Sector Reform Activity, and a separate effort to increase productive uses of electricity by enhancing capacity, skill and entrepreneurship development of women, youth, and other marginalized groups as a part of the Mt. Coffee Support Activity. The diagram below illustrates and describes the expected causal relationships for the Mt. Coffee Rehabilitation Activity and synthesizes expected outcomes of that Activity. This program logic will be expanded to incorporate other Energy Activities, and/or separate logics will be developed once the remaining Activities are more defined.
