Mr. Abdellatif BARDACH, President of the National Electricity Regulatory Authority, participated on 13 and 14 February 2019, in Abidjan at the AfDB headquarters in the workshop "Electricity Regulatory Index (ERI) for Africa". The workshop was attended by national and regional regulatory institutions, operators’ groupings, utilities and consumer associations in order to obtain stakeholders' perceptions on the development of the ERI 2019 after that of 2018.
Regarding the ERI, the African Development Bank (AfDB) launched in 2016 the New Deal on Energy for Africa, a partnership-based initiative that aims at achieving universal access to electricity in Africa by 2025.
