Technical Assistance to the Republic of Serbia : Advisory Support to the Working Group Designing a Reform Strategy for Municipal Public Uutility Companies
This report describes a technicalassistance project in Serbia to support the design of anational strategy on local Public Utility Companies. It wasa response to the request from the Ministry of Economy andRegional Development (MERD) in early 2008. The projectobjectives were as follows: to assist the MERD in steeringthe working group; to provide specific targeted inputs toworking group discussions; to help the Government determinethe extent and nature of informational, analytical, andinstitutional steps required to fully elaborate andimplement a reform strategy; and to advise the Bank and thePublic-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) onthe potential demand for further external assistance to thereform process. The required specific deliverables were asfollows: an inception note, including the consultant s firstviews after reading existing background reports,recommendation for any changes in the TOR for the services;a first draft of agenda items for the working group;following the second and subsequent visit(s), briefs on casestudies, comparative sectoral analyses, and othercontributions to working group discussions; and this finalsummary report, including a terms of reference for furtherrecommended studies and identification of potential roadblocks.