Burkina Faso - Energy Sector Budget Support Programme

The proposed operation is a UA 20 million ADF grant to Burkina Faso to finance the Energy Sector Budget Support Programme (PASE). This is a sector budget support operation which will be implemented in 2015 to back the efforts of the authorities to find a lasting solution to the crisis in the electricity sub-sector. The Bank’s assistance is justified by the necessity to address the needs of a regional member country (RMC) whose institutions are momentarily weakened by popular uprising. It stems from dialogue between the Bank and the Government as part of support for transition. The programme design is based on two major guiding principles aimed at improving the governance of the major sector enterprises, as well as controlling State subsidies to the sector. The two guiding principles are: (i) support the authorities in implementing reforms aimed at removing the constraints on regular electricity supply; and (ii) back the authorities in implementing reforms aimed at improving governance in the supply of petroleum products. Thus, to align with these guiding principles, PASE comprises two complementary components, namely: (i) Support for Regular Electricity Supply; and (ii) Improvement of the Performance of the Petroleum Products Supply System.