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Objective
The USAID Power Distribution Program is a five-year, USAID-financed project designed to facilitate improvements in electric power distribution utilities across Pakistan. The project began in September, 2010 and was designed to be implemented in two distinct components:
Components:
Component 1 consisted of Operational Audits of each of the nine Government-owned distribution utilities (DISCOs). The purpose of these in-depth, operational audits was to establish baseline information that could be used to measure improvement in performance over time. The audits covered governance, operational, financial, human resources, communications and customer service areas, and surfaced opportunities for fundamental improvement in all these sectors. These improvement opportunities are reflected in DISCO specific Performance Improvement Action Plans.
Component 2 is focusing on execution of the Performance Improvement Action Plans by each DISCO, including implementation of performance improvement projects to demonstrate a number of key operational improvements and directly measure their value to the utility.
Geographical Coverage:
The Program works in partnership with the Ministry of Water and Power, Government of Pakistan and nine (9) power distribution companies (DISCOs) located across the four provinces of Pakistan. The names of these DISCOs are:
- GEPCO - Gujranwala Electric Power Company
- FESCO - Faisalabad Electric Supply Company
- HESCO - Hyderabad Electric Supply Company
- IESCO - Islamabad Electric Supply Company
- LESCO - Lahore Electric Supply Company
- MEPCO - Multan Electric Power Company
- PESCO - Peshawar Electric Supply Company
- QESCO - Quetta Electric Supply Company
- SEPCO - Sukkur Electric Power Company
For more information about the Program, please read this Fact Sheet.
Further details on USAID’s energy projects in Pakistan can be found here.