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IEG Good Practice Awards: 2004 Winners
Project Award
 Winner
Bangladesh Third Rural Electrification Project
Reason
for Selection
The Bank undertook a concerted dialogue with the government
on rural electrification and succeeded in supporting a large
expansion of rural connections and helped push through an
ambitious program of transferring lines from parastatals to
cooperatives. Network losses for the transferred lines were
reduced from 30-50 percent to 15-20 percent. Performance-based
remuneration was introduced for the management of the cooperatives.
Despite the challenging overall country and sector environment,
the project performed well on measures of economic efficiency.
Experience with the cooperatives supported under the project
provides lessons for other countries in the region.
Project
Description
Approved: May 1, 1990
Closed: December 31, 1999
IEG PPAR date: June 14, 2001
Project
Team Members
Nurul Alam
Doug Barnes
Raihan Elahi
M. Iqbal
Somin Mukherji
Chrisantha Ratnayake
Surayia Zannath
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