HT Electricity Project

Abstract*

The objective of the Electricity Loss Reduction Project is to contribute to the sustainable improvement in the quality of electricity services in Haiti to customers and to the strengthening of the financial and operational performance of the electricity public utility (EPH). The project will implement the following three components. The first component, improvement in the Electricite d'Haiti (EDH) management systems and practices towards a more customer... Show More

Development Objective

Contribute to the sustainable improvement in the quality of electricity services to customers and to the strengthening of the financial and operational performance of the electricity public utility (EDH).

Key Details

Project Details

Project ID
P098531
Status
Closed
Team Leader
Frederic Verdol
Borrower 2
N/A

Country
Haiti
Disclosure Date
April 14, 2006
Approval Date
(as of board presentation)
August 3, 2006
Effective Date
July 31, 2007

Total Project Cost 1
US$ 7.47 million
Implementing Agency
N/A
Region
Latin America and Caribbean
Fiscal Year 3
2007

Commitment Amount
US$ 6.00 million
Environmental Category
C
Last Update Date
October 2, 2023
Closing Date
August 31, 2013

Last Stage Reached
BANK APPROVED

Associated Projects
P112164

Notes
1. Total project cost includes funding from World Bank and non-bank sources in US$ millions. Active and Closed projects show current commitments. Proposed (pipeline) and dropped projects show the forecast amount. The commitment amount for projects in the pipeline is indicative and may be modified during the project preparation.
2. Borrower refers to the Borrower of a Loan or Recipient of a Grant.
3. ”Fiscal Year” is the fiscal year in which the project was approved (or dropped if the status is dropped). The World Bank's fiscal year is from July 1 - June 30. For example, a fiscal year of 1996 corresponds to July 1, 1995 - June 30, 1996.

Sectors

Themes

FY17 - Private Sector Development

FY17 - Business Enabling Environment33%
- FY17 - Regulation and Competition Policy33%
FY17 - Jobs22%
- FY17 - Job Creation22%

FY17 - Urban and Rural Development

FY17 - Rural Development22%
- FY17 - Rural Infrastructure and service delivery22%
FY17 - Urban Development22%
- FY17 - Urban Infrastructure and Service Delivery22%

Project Map

Interactive Map

Finances

Financing Plan (US$ Millions)

Financier	Commitments
IDA Grant	6.00
Local Sources of Borrowing Country	1.47

Total Project Financing (US$ Millions)

Product Line	IBRD/IDA
IBRD Commitment	N/A
IDA Commitment	6.00
IBRD + IDA Commitment	6.00

Lending Instrument
Grant Amount	N/A
Total Project Cost**	7.47

Summary Status of World Bank Financing (US$ Millions) as of February 28, 2025

No data available.

Detailed Financial Activity as of February 28, 2025

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Period	Financier	Transaction Type	Amount (US$)
Aug 3, 2006	IDA-H2510	Loan Commitment	6,000,000.00
Sep 26, 2013	IDA-H5100	Loan Disb	12,255.00
Sep 11, 2013	IDA-H2510	Loan Disb	64,869.58
Sep 10, 2013	IDA-H2510	Loan Disb	1,019,993.80
Sep 27, 2013	IDA-H2510	Loan Disb	23,851.31
Sep 8, 2009	IDA-H5100	Loan Commitment	5,000,000.00
Jan 31, 2014	IDA-H5100	Loan Cancel	620,173.10
Oct 3, 2013	IDA-H2510	Loan Disb	117,158.76
Dec 24, 2013	IDA-H5100	Loan Disb	-667.58
Nov 6, 2013	IDA-H2510	Loan Disb	-140.45
Sep 26, 2013	IDA-H5100	Loan Disb	34,367.00
Jan 31, 2014	IDA-H2510	Loan Cancel	508,163.72

Footnotes

Ratings

IMPLEMENTATION RATINGS

Name	Review	Date
Progress towards achievement of PDO	Moderately Satisfactory	2013-09-12
Monitoring and Evaluation	Moderately Satisfactory	2013-09-12
Procurement	Satisfactory	2013-09-12
Project Management	Moderately Satisfactory	2013-09-12
Financial Management	Satisfactory	2013-09-12
Overall Implementation Progress (IP)	Moderately Unsatisfactory	2013-09-12
Counterpart Funding	Satisfactory	2013-09-12

COMPLETION RATINGS

INDICATOR	IMPLEMENTATION COMPLETION & RESULTS REPORT: 05-22-2014
Outcomes	Moderately Unsatisfactory
Risk to Development Outcome	High
Bank Performance	Moderately Satisfactory
Borrower Performance	Moderately Unsatisfactory
Government Performance	Moderately Satisfactory
Implementing Agency	Moderately Unsatisfactory

INDEPENDENT EVALUATION RATINGS

INDICATOR	ICR REVIEW: 12-30-2014	PROJECT PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT REPORT:
Outcome Rating	Unsatisfactory	N/a
Risk To Development Outcome	High	N/a
Bank Performance	Moderately Unsatisfactory	N/a
Borrower Performance	Moderately Unsatisfactory	N/a
Government Performance	Moderately Unsatisfactory	N/a
Implementing Agency	Moderately Unsatisfactory	N/a
Icr Quality	Satisfactory	N/a
M&e Quality	Modest	N/a

Results Framework

PROJECT DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVE INDICATORS

INDICATOR		BASELINE	CURRENT	TARGET

Cash Recovery Index	Value	11.51	26.70	40.00
	Date	March 1, 2011	July 1, 2013	November 30, 2013
	Comment	Value has been reset post earthquake. Average value over the last 12 months.	Commercial progress on private clients could not compensate the increase of payment arrears from public entities.	Value expected in April 2013, as an OIA (Tetra Tech) objective.

Percentage of customers served at least 6 hours per day on average in the zones served by EDH	Value	20%	100%	50%
	Date	March 1, 2011	July 1, 2013	August 31, 2013
	Comment	Value has been set post earthquake.	Important variations, due to a fragile power system (Epower plant down since June 2013). Lowest value on one distribution circuitwas 8.3h/day in June 2013.

INTERMEDIATE RESULTS INDICATORS

INDICATOR		BASELINE	CURRENT	TARGET

1.1.Number of customers in CMS database	Value	0	224,052	185,315
	Date	December 12, 2005	July 1, 2013	August 31, 2013
	Comment		Major improvement, thanks to the Commercial action plan implemented since October 2012.	Value has to be reset post the earthquake.

1.2. Number of customers in TSMS database	Value	0	224,052	180,315
	Date	December 12, 2005	July 1, 2013	August 31, 2013
	Comment		Clients of the provinces in TSMS database, but tool not yet operational in these areas.	Value has to be reset post the earthquake.

1.3. Number of EDH employees trained to use CMS and TSMS (not cumulative)	Value	0	296	435
	Date	December 12, 2005	July 1, 2013	August 31, 2013
	Comment		Remaining staff to be trained are located in the provinces. As deployment of the CMS is considered by EDH management as a priorityaction (following the August 2013 gap analysis conducted under the Project), training of staff will start in September 2013.

1.4. Active Customers/employee ratio	Value	80	98	100
	Date	December 12, 2005	July 1, 2013	August 31, 2013
	Comment	184,000 customers for 2,300 employees, information available in the project PAD.	As of July 2013, 224,502 clients for 2302 employees.	Value to be adjusted with new commercial and financial recovery plans.

5.2. Number of satisfied customers (large customers)	Value	TBD	TBD	1,270
	Date	December 12, 2005	July 1, 2013	August 31, 2013
	Comment	No baseline.	Survey to will be conducted in September2013, for the Government's ICR.

5.3. Employees satisfied with new system Value 0 TBD 625
Date December 12, 2005 July 1, 2013 August 31, 2013
Comment Survey to will be conducted in September2013, for the Government's ICR.

TA to EDH management	Value	Sub standard procedures	Gap analysis done, recommended new procedures for	Implementation of new procedures for: - Financial
	Date	December 18, 2009	August 1, 2013	August 31, 2013
	Comment		TA supported design and implementation of Commercial action plan 2012-2013 and Financial Audit 2013-2014.

Financial Management Plan	Value	No financial management plan in place	EDH Financial tool by September 2013, Extensive fi	Implementation of (i) an accounting system, (ii) d
	Date	December 18, 2009	August 1, 2013	August 31, 2013
	Comment		Accounting assistance contract signed on May 13, 2013 with awarded firm. Results expected by February 2014.By end September 2013,a parallel financial audit will provide a tool to present scenarios for the next 2-3 fiscal years..

Small customers served at least six hours a day on average	Value		100%	50%
	Date		July 1, 2013	August 31, 2013
	Comment	Measurement started in 2011.	100% of industrial clients in the industrial zones have more than 12h/day

Percentage of large customers served at least 12 hours per day on average	Value			60%
	Date		April 1, 2012	February 28, 2013
	Comment	This measurement started in 2011.	Not measured yet, remote meters will provide information in end 2012

Cash Recovery Index - large customers	Value			85%
	Date		July 1, 2013	August 31, 2013
	Comment	CRI indicator not estimated by customer type.	Audit of 310inactive industrial customers showed 8% having a fraudulent use of service.

Number of large customers regularized	Value	0	1320	1270
	Date	December 12, 2005	July 1, 2013	August 31, 2013
	Comment		Since 2012, 50 new industrial clients in the Port-au-Prince area.	Total number of industrial customers may evolve.

Number of EDH employees trained to attend and follow up on large customers	Value	0	28	20
	Date	January 12, 2010	July 1, 2013	August 31, 2013
	Comment	No specific recurrent training for this frange of custumers	A Large Clients Unit has been created, for individualized customer relationship .	EDH willing to have a cell of 20 staff specialized in large priority customers.

Successful training of MTPTC staff to supervise performance indicators	Value	Not trained	Energy Cell created in MTPTEC, coordinator of the	Staff dedicated to sector performance review train
	Date	December 18, 2009	August 1, 2013	August 31, 2013
	Comment	Baseline is set on the day of effectiveness of the additional financing, which finances the MTPTC staff	Coordinator to recruit team. Former Energy Unit staff who did performance indicators monitoring could be recruited.

Number of EDH employees satisfied with the project Value 0 TBD 1938
Date December 12, 2005 December 1, 2012 February 28, 2013
Comment Surveys will be conducted in April 2013.

Number of EDH employees satisfied with the project	Value	0	TBD	1938
	Date	December 12, 2005	December 1, 2012	February 28, 2013
	Comment		Surveys will be conducted in April 2013.