Mauritania Reviews Electricity-Sector Governance and Infrastructure Oversight

On 8 October, Mauritanian authorities directed the implementation of recommendations following an independent inquiry into fires at electricity substations in Nouakchott. The measures included infrastructure rehabilitation, stronger preventive controls and improvements to operational oversight at the national electricity company SOMELEC. Government agencies and public utilities require transparent procurement, infrastructure-performance monitoring and effective programme management to implement reforms. HPC provides public-sector analytics, project-monitoring systems and governance-support solutions for a proposed contract value of $420,000.