Togo - Wood recovery in the Nangbeto Lake

Joint UNDP/Worid Bank Energy Sector Management Assistance Program Activity Completion Report No. 055/86 Country: TOmO Activity: WOOD RECOVERY IN THZ NANGBETO LAKE AP RIL 1986 Report of the ,og UNOP,ld Banlc Ey Sector Maagement Assnce Progam Thts docunent has a restricted distribution. Its contents nay not be disclosed witkhout authonzation from the Govemment, the UNOP or the Worid Bank.  MNERO SECTOR MANAGEMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAH The Joint UND?/World Bank Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP), started in Apr.l 1983, assiste countriea in implementing the main investment and polley recommtndations of the Energy Sector Assessment Reports produced under another Joint UNDP/World Bank. Program. EtMAP proviaes staff and consultant assistance in formulating and justifying priority pre-investment and investiment pro1ects and in providing management, institutional and policy support. 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New York, N.Y. 10017 Washington, D.C. 20433  TOGO WOOD RECOVERY IN THE NANGBETO LAE APRIL 1986 :  ABBREYIATIONS AND ACRONYNS CEB Binational Pover Company ESMAP Energy Sector Management Assistance Program ha hectare ODEF Togolese Forestry Service UNDP United Nations Development Program US$1 - FCFA 470 .  WOOD RECOVHRY IX TUBE NACIETO LAR Il 1., The construction of the Nangbeto hydropover plant on the Mono river in Togo is underway. The plant is expected to be commissioned in 1988. It vill be fed from an artificial lake, which vill have a maximum surface (at cote 144) of about 18,000 ha and a minimum extension (at cote 135) of 8,000 ha. Filling of the reservoir vill start during the 1987 rainy season, viz. April-May 1987. 2. The reservoir area is eurrently covered by approximately 2,500 m3 of fuelwood. In the tvo remaining dry seasons, the biomass has to be partially or totally removed on the following grounds: (a) to preserve the quality of the vater stored in the reservoir; (b) to avoid economic vaste by recovering the timber and fuelwood resources; (c) to facilitate the development of a fishing industry vitb'n the artificial lake; (d) to protect the pover plant facilities and to preserve the beauty of the place. 3. A 1984 feasibility study by consulting firme (Sogrtah and Electrovatt) evaluated the vegetation existing in the t,rea to be flooded, the scope of clearing work required to meet accepteble standards, the most appropriate clearing technology, and the financial requirements of the project. The bi-national pover company (CEB), responsible for the hydropover project, requested the Bank's assistance to review the study. The main concern of the pover company vas to avoid getting too involved in business lying outside its area of competence, i.e., in forest exaloitation and marketing of wood. 4. In response to this request, the Bank agreed to finance under the joint UNDP/World Bank 8nergy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) a mission of a forestry expert and an energy specialist to review the scope and modality of exectution of vork. The vork vas carried out in close collaboration vith the technical staff of the Bank's West Africa Ener;y and Agri,,ultural Divisions. In the field, the ESMAP mission vorked closely jith the CE8, the Togolese forestry service (ODEF), and other concerne4 agencies. This dialogue facilitated the review process. As a result of these discussions, the mission arrived at a number of conclusions and recommendations which vere presented to Covernment of Togo's officials for their consideration. These conclusions can be grouped as followss 1/ This report is based on the findings of two consultants Cleude de Costa and John Love, during their April-May 1985 mission to Togo.  -2- (a) Technical considerations: <1> Clearing surface: The surface to be cleared vas defined arbitrarily in the original feasibility study at 66X of the total area to be flooded. The study did not assess ehe impact of different deforestation options on the quality of the vater, nor did it take into account the water flou and its renova':ion, or the impact of biomass grcvth after the reservoir bas been filled (on the vater itielf snd on the areas whi