Strengthening Utilities and Promoting Energy Reform (SUPER) Quarterly Report – Q3 FY2021

The SUPER TO is implemented by Deloitte Consulting LLP and is supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The core tasks under SUPER have been organized into four focus areas, which include assessing existing sector conditions, designing and implementing new market structures, building energy sector entities' institutional capacity, and testing new commercialization technologies and approaches. In the third quarter of Fiscal Year 2021 (Q3 FY2021), the SUPER TO continued scoping potential Work Assignment (WA) opportunities, developed scopes of work (SOWs), and sourced delivery teams for two new WAs. The SUPER team facilitated three Stakeholder Working Groups to review the current state of non-technical losses in Jamaica and discuss policy concepts for reducing non-technical losses. The team also scoped WA #3 - Iraq Energy Sector Assessment, which will examine the current state of the energy sector of Federal Iraq and the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, and WA #4 - Utility Cybersecurity and Digitalization in the Caribbean and Central America. The SUPER team delivered a training for USAID energy and environment officers on climate change mitigation and the power sector, and contributed an article to the USAID Climatelinks.org blog highlighting the SUPER TO capabilities to help USAID missions with power sector-related climate change mitigation initiatives. The team also promoted the SUPER TO as a mechanism that USAID Operating Units can leverage to promote climate change programming, utility commercialization priorities, and energy sector reforms. The SUPER TO operates through Work Assignments, which are distinct pieces of technical assistance, defined by specific SOWs and budgets, undertaken directly with USAID Operating Units. The SUPER team has set up a process to filter potential WAs to ensure they align with the SUPER objectives and core activities, and a close-out process that prioritizes publishing and socializing the learnings generated from each WA. In Q3, Deloitte focused on implementing non-technical loss reduction activities in Jamaica under WA #2, identifying and scoping potential new WAs, delivering a training to USAID energy and environment officers on climate change mitigation and the power sector, and promoting the SUPER TO as a mechanism that USAID Operating Units can leverage to promote climate change programming, utility commercialization priorities, and energy sector reforms. Looking to Q4, Deloitte will focus on completing activities under WA #2 and scoping follow-on work in Jamaica, launching two new WAs that are in the final stages of scoping, publishing and promoting the SUPER landing page on the USAID web site, and identifying new potential WAs through outreach to USAID Operating Units and partner country counterparts. The SUPER TO has set up a process to ensure that all Work Assignments align with the SUPER objectives and core activities, and a close-out process that prioritizes publishing and socializing the learnings generated from each WA. The team has also established a process to filter potential WAs to ensure they align with the SUPER objectives and core activities, and to set up and operationalize WAs that have technical concurrence and funding. The "core" Deloitte technical team and the "core" USAID technical team manage the overarching TO, oversee all the WAs, and promote cross-collaboration and knowledge from the WA outputs and deliverables, among other contractual responsibilities. The SUPER TO aims to promote equitable and inclusive energy development by empowering women and reducing gender gaps in the energy sector and across the entire value chain of electricity service provision. The team has set up a process to ensure that all Work Assignments align with the SUPER objectives and core activities, and a close-out process that prioritizes publishing and socializing the learnings generated from each WA. The SUPER TO has also established a process to filter potential WAs to ensure they align with the SUPER objectives and core activities, and to set up and operationalize WAs that have technical concurrence and funding.