Service de l'énergie en milieu sahélien
Espace Résidence, Hann Mariste 1 421
BP 652, Dakar
Tél : 	(221) 832.73.97
Fax :	(221) 832.61.89
E-mail :    b.sadasy@semis.sn

SEMIS (Energy services in sahelian environment) is a Limited Liability Company (LLC), under Senegalese law, with a capital of 5 millions francs CFA, founded on March 11th 1987. SEMIS is composed of a group of professionals (engineers, economists and rural world specialists) and it includes both Senegalese and foreign consultants.

SEMIS is one of the first sahelian research consultancy to have developed a set of concepts and competences on services (water and energy) and on the participative dynamics in rural environment. 

The complementarity of the competences brought together in our regional network of experts allows SEMIS to offer a whole range of quality studies in the fields of water and electricity supply to rural and semi-urban areas.

REFERENCES 

Year 1999
Senegal	AFD
	Implementation of the project to reform the management of water pump stations (REGEFOR) in partnership with Burgeap.

	PROGEDE. Department of Energy – World Bank
	Study to establish a strategy for the dissemination of 225 000 metallic “improved stoves” in Senegal. 

Mali	European Union
	Technical assistance to a consolidation of the Regional Solar Program (151 solar–powered water pumps) 

Year 1998 

Burkina Faso	E.D.F - ADEME
	Assistance on the privatization of the management of 3 “communication and activity centers” (CCA) powered by decentralized photovoltaic systems.

Republic	E.U. Delegation in Conakry
of Guinea	Evaluation of the Division for Training and Monitoring (DAM) of the National Service for Watering Places Development (SNAPE).

Senegal	Department of Energy, FED micro-realizations project
	Feasibility study and design of a decentralized rural electrification program in the department of Bakel (AISB Project). Negotiated financing with the PMR/FED and implemented the entire project (identification, dimensioning, technical specification, issuing invitations to tender, defining training procedures, assistance and counsel to the NGO AISB who is the field operator).

	CILSS 
	Socio-economic supervision of 10 pumping stations for the Regional Solar Program, including two systems used for irrigation.

	GTZ 
	Feasibility study on drinking water supply to localities covered by the integrated project of the Delta of Djoudj: possibility of solutions based on renewable energy, solar or wind powered pumping.

Mali	RSP
	Technical assistance contract for the consolidation of the RSP (10 months).

All CILSS	CILSS - European Union 
countries  	Technical assistance to the regional coordination of the RSP for the consolidation of the RSP: development of the database, organization of two training sessions for the national representatives. Support missions in the countries, involvement in the negotiations on the conditions for the continuation of the SAV. 

	European Union – INCO-DC 
	In partnership with Nova University of Lisbon: study “Transition schemes through a sustainable energy system in sahelian countries”.

Year 1997 

Burkina Faso	French Development Fund (CFD)
	Study on the reform of maintenance management for solar-powered hydraulic equipment (in collaboration with Burgeap). SEMIS conducted an investigation on the water points, the local management committees and private operators in the sector. This survey covered 30 villages, representative of the different regions in Burkina, and served as basis for the diagnostic study.
	
	E.D.F - ADEME
	Post-installation monitoring of 3 villages electrified through the CCA project (Communication and Activity Centers). In the framework of this supervision, SEMIS was responsible of providing training to the NGOs, giving them the necessary tools to coordinate the populations in the CCA equipped villages. SEMIS also provided a concluding evaluation of the work on these NGOs on behalf of EDF-ADEME.  

	E.D.F - ADEME
	Study on the potential contribution of photovoltaic systems to the improvement of electricity supply to the region of Bobo-Dioulasso. 

	Royal Dutch Embassy and World Bank 
	Feasibility study and project dossier for a rural electrification program to be implemented as an addition to the project for participative management of natural forests.

Senegal	E.U - Région Nord-pas-de-Calais-FAC - GRET
	Technical assistance to the project “ Alizé Sénégal ” in collaboration with the GRET. This project aims to supply drinking water to rural population thanks to local production and rehabilitation of windmills.
	This program is based on an approach of involvement of the main beneficiaries, in agreement with the decentralization policy promoted by the Senegalese government. Users organization and support activities are the cornerstone of this program. 

	French Development Fund (CFD)
	Study for the reform of the management of motorized pumping stations in Senegal: within the framework of this institutional study performed by BURGEAP in Senegal, SEMIS conducted all of the socio-economic surveys on local management committees and willingness to pay for water in Senegal. 

All CILSS	European Union
countries	Within the framework of consolidation work for the Regional Solar Program, SEMIS in collaboration with IED (France) currently provides for a period of 10 month technical assistance to the regional coordination of  the RSP, based in Ouagadougou. This assistance covers all of the member countries of the CILSS and follows the evaluation studies and diagnostic studies carried out by SEMIS-IED. This consolidation effort, centered around population coordination and support, should allow the program to comfortably move towards a phase of extension. 

Year 1996
Burkina Faso	FED – European Commission Delegation in Ouagadougou
	Assistance to the coordination team of the RSP in Sissili : training of the team, support for the implementation of an evaluation framework, elaboration of a coordination manual. This intervention and the manual for coordination work were financed by the European Commission Delegation in Ouagadougou. 

Benin	French Development Fund (CFD)
	Coordination of the meeting of Directors of Hydraulics and Energy from the Entente Council member countries, and dossier outline for the “Water and Energy” program.  

Gabon	CFD, E.D.F
	Evaluation and analysis of the experiments with the distribution of prepayment based electricity meters.

Gambia	Study on the valorization of savings generated 
Senegal	around the water pumping stations of the Regional 
Guinea Bissau	Solar Program. This study aimed to identify the 
Mauritania 	conditions for introducing to the local management committee activities for a valorization of the savings attached to equipment renewal, in order to ease some of the recurring expenses of the water stations.

Senegal	French Development Fund (CFD)
	Identification, feasibility study and consultation dossier for the health centers electrification program of the Catholic Private Medical Centers Association in Senegal (APSPC).

	Micro-realizations Project (FED-PMR)
	Elaboration of a PMR financing report for the implementation of a rural electrification program in Eastern Senegal. This report led to a co-financing agreement from the Department of Energy on the project.

	Royal Dutch Embassy
	Study, “Program for the intensive propagation of solar equipment in Senegal”, in the region of Kolda, in southern Senegal.

	Department of Energy
	Maps of the electrification effort in Senegal. Surveys on household energy covering 4000 households in the ten regions of the country.
	
	World Health Organization
	Monitoring of the solar electrification program of the  Catholic Private Medical Centers Association in Senegal (APSPC). Implementation of a system for the  sale of energy.

	Senegalo-Japanese Project on Solar Energy
	Prepared terms of reference for the elaboration of a guiding scheme for solar electrification in Senegal. 

Chad	EDF and ADEME
	Identification of villages for the implementation of a decentralized rural electrification project. 

Year 1995
Regional	WIP-Germany
Study on the conditions for the lifting of barriers to the spread of photovoltaic technology. (JOULE program – Power to the world’s villages). Defined procedures for the evaluation of energy needs in the field of decentralized electrification, health, and water supply. 

Gambia	Delegation of the European Commission in Banjul
	Assistance to the implantation of the community equipments segment of the Regional Solar Program.

Senegal	FED / Micro-realizations
	Development plan for the village of Ngarane.

	World Health Organization
	Consultant support for the establishment of an agreement protocol  between the WHO, the Department of Energy and the APSPCS on sale of energy by health centers in the framework of rural electrification. 
       
Year 1994
Senegal	European Development Fund (FED)
	Designed a system for the training and managing of local communication workers in rural areas. 

	FED/PHV
  	Coordination of the RSP field team and assistance to the national coordinator. 

	Plan International
	Study on the possibility of implantation of a project in the city of PIKINE. 
  	
Year 1993
CILSS	FED - Kruger Consult
countries	Economist role in the identification study for the second phase of the Regional Solar Program: Guinea Bissau, Gambia, Senegal, Cap-Vert.

Year 1992
Guinea	European Union-CILSS
Bissau	Analysis of conditions for financial mobilization towards water pumping stations in villages in Guinea-Bissau, Regional Solar Program.

Guinea	World Bank / Burgeap
Conakry	Study on the "motivation to pay for water" in Guinea Conakry. This study was realized by Bruno Legendre, former director of Semis, he remains a resource available for support work on all SEMIS projects.

Senegal	FED/ Micro-realizations Project
	Study on the production and consumption of onions in the department of Podor.
        
 	FED/PHV
	Coordination of the RSP field team and assistance to the national coordinator in Senegal.

	FONDEM
	Technical study and financing design for the solar equipment of three health centers in Casamance.
	
	World Health Organization
	Investigation on the possibilities of energy sale in the context of health centers electrification with solar systems. 

	European Development Fund (FED) - Burgeap
	Training program for Regional Solar Program field teams in Burkina Faso.	

Year 1990
Mali	French Agency for the control of Energy (AFME)
	Involvement in the organization of the Bamako regional seminar on the theme “Development of energy resources in Africa: solar energy”.

Senegal	French Agency for the control of Energy (AFME)
	Study on the possibilities to develop solar energy in the department of Matam. 

	Royal Dutch Embassy
	Analysis of the conditions for the marketing and distribution of the agricultural production from the island-project in Morphil (Podor).

	Japanese Embassy
	Elaboration of a project for the support of the Fedde Naange rural association. Equipment and devlopment of two farming concerns using solar powered irrigation systems.

	FED/PHV
	Preparatory study on the possibility to stream the agricultural production of the Senegal river valley towards the urban area of Dakar. 

	FONDEM
	Technical study and financing design for the solar equipment of three health centers of the APSPCS in Casamance.

	Région-Nord-Pas-de-Calais / ASF
	Conception et realization of the preliminary study for the project “Build and Produce in the FOUTA”.

	Dutch Embassy / APSPCS
	Study and implementation work for the electrification with solar systems of a health center in Casamance. 

	British Petroleum Senegal
 	Performing a study and organizing the supply of diesel oil to agricultural plots in the Senegal river valley. 

	FAO
	Bibliographic study on mutual credit in Senegal. 

	FED / Hydro-agricultural Project
	Monitoring of 17 marketplaces in the department of Podor and distribution of a weekly information bulletin to peasants of the area. 

	KFW / Food Security Commission
	Monitoring economic equilibrium  of the households in the department of Podor, in the context of the “Supervision of risk zones” program.

	SEMIS
	Methodology for market supervision and application. The Semis experience 1988/1990.
	Extension of the market supervision activities to six sites in the department of Podor.
	Study on the users and frequentation of the Aere-Lo road station. Report on the opportunity for the construction of a gas-station.

Regional	FED / BURGEAP
	Study to implement the financial mechanism of the Regional Solar Program in Senegal, Gambia and Niger.