By Austine Luseni, Communications Specialist, Ministry of Energy
Dr. Kandeh Yumkella, Chairman, Presidential Initiative on Climate Change, Renewable Energy and Food Security, is to chair an Energy Governance Coordination Group (EGCG) constituted by His Excellency President Julius Maada Bio as a vehicle to ensure coherence and effective information sharing and coordination within the energy sector.
The EGCG is specially and strategically tasked with functions including but not limited to the provision of guidance to entities within the energy sector, tackling of immediate and short-term challenges, and provision of guidance in the design and roll out of sector investment promotion initiatives.
The EGCG comprises the Deputy Ministers of Energy l &II, Minister of Finance, CEO of MCC, and Chairmen of EDSA, EGTC and EWRC.
Dr. Yumkella is expected to bring his impressive level of knowledge and experience in the domain of energy governance to positively bear on and or leverage Sierra Leone’s energy potentials and reform endeavours.
With the energy sector and the Feed Salone agenda being inextricably linked, reforms continue in the sector. Chairman Presidential Initiative on Climate Change, Renewable Energy and Food Security, Dr.Kandeh Yumkella, is to chair an Energy Governance Coordination Group, EGCG, constituted by His Excellency President Julius Maada Bio as a vehicle to ensure coherence and effective information sharing and coordination within the energy sector.
The EGCG is specially and strategically tasked with functions including but not limited to the provision of guidance to entities within the energy sector, tackling of immediate and short-term challenges, and provision of guidance in the design and roll out of sector investment promotion initiatives.
The EGCG comprises the Deputy Ministers of Energy l &II, Minister of Finance, CEO of MCC, and Chairmen of EDSA, EGTC and EWRC.
Dr. Yumkella is expected to bring his impressive level of knowledge and experience in the domain of energy governance to positively bear on and or leverage Sierra Leone’s energy potentials and reform endeavours.
With the energy sector and the Feed Salone agenda being inextricably linked, reforms continue in the sector.