Active stakeholder participation and involvement – the success and the sustainability of the project results is largely contingent upon the transfer of knowledge and skills to the persons who will be responsible for using and further developing the performance monitoring systems and other energy strategy implementation mechanisms that will be established as part of this project, long after the Consultant departs. Accordingly, we believe it is important that MoECI staff actively participate in the working groups that will be established for executing the various project tasks and that the project team continuously engage MoECI staff (and others) to ensure that they are acquiring knowledge, assimilating the required techniques and build their capacity (and interest) to carry out their policy formulation, implementation and monitoring functions.

Use of tested and proven methods and approaches – as mentioned above, the Consortium and the key experts have extensive experience in all aspects of the project in many country and regional settings. This knowledge and experience, and the lessons learnt, will be brought to bear in the present project, although of course they will need to be carefully tailored to local circumstances, priorities and needs.

Maximum use of prior work and systems, and existing information – we undertake to ensure that all relevant and available existing information, rules, procedures and methodologies are collected, reviewed, analysed and suitably incorporated in our work and recommendations. This will ensure that there is no unnecessary duplication and that our project builds upon and further refines work that has been developed in the context of other technical assistance projects for MoECI and other beneficiaries, such as the PCA Project.

Speedy project execution – although the project duration is 31 months, the project scope is comprehensive and requires a substantial body of work to be undertaken. Accordingly, a significant element of our proposed work scheduling is the conduct of activities wherever possible in parallel. In this respect, we propose that during the inception period a comprehensive and detailed project implementation and action plan be developed by the Consultant with clear deadlines and milestones, which will be agreed with MoECI, the project Steering Committee and JMG, and guide all ensuing work and tasks.

Effective project organisation and staffing structure – the proposed organisation (which is discussed more extensively below) has been designed to maximise the effectiveness of project activities. Specifically, we have adopted a clear delineation of responsibilities and matched the project tasks to the specialised expertise and knowledge areas of the key experts, supported by the Team Leader’s overall responsibility for the project and the consortium’s quality control processes. Finally, we will mobilise and deploy specialised short-term, non-key experts to support the key expert team in all relevant disciplines and thereby ensure sufficient coverage of the comprehensive project subject matter.