Projects and references

The main objective of this 6-month mission was to devise a development strategy for the restructuring of precarious neighbourhoods in Greater Tana within the framework of PRODUIR, carried out in a participatory and inclusive manner with all the actors involved in urban development in Greater Tana. It aimed at guiding and directing the Communes of Greater Tana and the Ministry of Decentralisation and Land Planning in future actions in these neighbourhoods.
This strategy was based on the results of the urban and social study carried out under the PRODUIR programme.
The study consisted of four stages: (1) defining the urban and socio-economic framework of the precarious neighbourhoods of Greater Tana, (2) SWOT analysis of the various actions carried out in the precarious neighbourhoods and international benchmarking, (3) development of the various aspects of the strategy at different scales, and (4) programming the implementation of the strategy in the short and medium terms for Greater Tana.

The project aims to support the coordination unit of the Programme of Adaptation of Cities to Climate Change (PAVICC). This programme of nearly €50m supports four major cities in Benin on climate resilience via infrastructure and on local taxation via the recruitment of four tax experts housed directly in the cities to help the local administration improve its resource mobilisation.

The overall objective of the Consultancy services is to; (i) provide technical support and quality assurance to PO-RALG’s PCU and the respective MC PIUs and supervision consultants and contractors they to engaged by each MC to implement sub-projects); (ii) assist and advise the PCU in overall project monitoring and reporting utilizing, where necessary, the monitoring and reporting carried out by the respective PIUs and their support consultants; (iii) assist and advise the PCU in drafting Terms of Reference of key Component 3 studies including metropolitan governance; local government revenue collection and GIS; integrated transport and land use planning (in concert with DART and other key agencies/stakeholders as necessary), and; other urban studies and including Component 4 Feasibility Studies.

The project aims to electrify the existing railway line between Bukhara, Miskin, Urgench, and Khiva, enabling high-speed passenger trains to operate and significantly reducing travel time from 8 hours (on road transport) to 3. The objective is to connect key tourist destinations like Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara, and Khiva by high-speed rail, boosting Uzbekistan's appeal as a tourism destination. Outputs include: 1) upgrading railway infrastructure along the line, and 2) developing the tourism corridor from Bukhara to Khiva.

As part of the diversification of Indonesia's energy mix, PLN wishes to develop a wind farm with an installed capacity of around 200 MW in the Banten region on the island of Java. SOFRECO is carrying out the feasibility study for this wind farm under AFD financing and in consortium with the developer 3E, until the recruitment of the turnkey contractor. This study begins with the installation of measurement masts, then includes the selection of the most suitable power generation devices for the site, the design of the wind farm and its connection, as well as all the technical and financial studies necessary for the construction (topography, geotechnics, transport and stability of the network).

Conduct of a feasibility study on:
- the construction of a second high-voltage connection from Ferkessédougou or a neighbouring location on the Ivorian network (Kong) to Bobo Dioulasso (204 km) and from Bobo Dioulasso to Ouagadougou (336 km);
- the extension and/or construction of substations;
- electrification of communities and villages along the line and around the substations;
- the installation of compensation and synchronisation equipment and flow control, if required;
- CI-ÉNERGIES (Côte d'Ivoire) and SONABEL (Burkina Faso) network reinforcements, if required.

Conduct of a feasibility study on:
- the construction of a second high-voltage connection from Ferkessédougou or a neighbouring location on the Ivorian network (Kong) to Bobo Dioulasso (204 km) and from Bobo Dioulasso to Ouagadougou (336 km);
- the extension and/or construction of substations;
- electrification of communities and villages along the line and around the substations;
- the installation of compensation and synchronisation equipment and flow control, if required;
- CI-ÉNERGIES (Côte d'Ivoire) and SONABEL (Burkina Faso) network reinforcements, if required.

The Ghoubet project is a 60MW under-construction wind farm in Djibouti. It is developed by an Independent Power Producer (IPP), Red Sea Power, and works are conducted by Siemens-Gamesa.
A company, which is considering acquiring a stake in the project, has tasked a group of consulting firms to conduct a complete due diligence of the project. SOFRECO was responsible for the on-site technical due diligence. The purpose of the visit was to assess the physical state of construction, to compare this with the project's progress reports and to produce a report highlighting areas of concern or red flags.

The objective of the services is to ensure the proper implementation of the works to be constructed as part of the PROSER project for 805 locations spread across 17 regions of the country. The works planned for PROSER concern the construction of 6,460 km of 33kV overhead lines, the installation of 1,394 substations, and the construction of 3,419 km of LV lines, as well as 113,838 LV connections and the installation of 94,023 public lighting units.