Emergency Infrastructure Rehabilitation Project, Phases 1 and 2

Village management committees for power sector. The experience of Phase 1 shows that the VMCs were not effective in maintaining and operating the power plants because (i) they did not have sufficient ability to ensure consistent collections, (ii) they did not have sufficient revenues to pay for the fuel to operate the diesel generator sets, and (iii) they lacked the technical expertise to operate and maintain these sets. The TFET water sector projects had similar conclusions, indicating that this structure needs to be improved.