A PILOT PROJECT ON CAPACITY BUILDING ON ELECTRICITY
REFORMS
IN BANGLADESH, INDIA AND NEPAL
(RESA PROJECT)
SLOT Analysis
RESA — Nepal
Dr. Dhrubesh C Regmi
and
Asish Subedi
Presented at
Mid term evaluation meeting
Jaipur, India
2 April 2009
Outline of the presentation

General overview of Nepali power sector

SLOT Analysis — RESA Nepal

Way forward
Nepali power sector: general overview
• Sources of energy
• Legal aspects
• Institutional aspects
• Load-shedding
• Socio-economic
impacts
Energy consumption by source: Nepal
Commercia
l sources
15%
Renewable
sources
1%
Traditional
sources
84%
Electricity,
14.2
Coal, 17.6
Petroleum,
68.2
SLOT Analysis
RESA
Nepal
Strengths
• Timely endeavour in raising consumer awareness in ongoing
power sector reform in Nepal
• Only organisation working on the issue
• Wide geographical coverage even in its pilot phase
• Networking with a wide range of stakeholders in the sector
• Bridge between the utility, policy makers, the private sector
and the consumers
• Support from all the stakeholders including political parties ,
media and the consumers
• Good team work and systematic implementing mechanism
among the partner organisations in the region
• Sharing of relevant information among the
RESA team regarding power sector reforms in
the respective countries
Limitations
• Limited number of project activities
• Slight changes in project activities posing
administrative and budgetary constraints
• No activity to directly address the most
pressing issue of load-shedding in the
electricity sector in Nepal
• Process oriented approach of the project
team rather than content oriented
Opportunities
• Given the low level of consumer awareness
and existence of numerous electricity related
problems, scope of expansion in relation to
activities and geographical coverage
• Creating a position to push the government
for taking consumer-friendly decisions
• Possibility of a tie-up with various consumer
and other related organisations
to explore further working
options in the sector
Threats
• State of acute power deficiency limiting the
project scope
• Raised expectations among the different
stakeholders including the partner
organisations
Way forward
• RG meeting II
• GIMs II