The African Development Bank, en collaboration with the African Legal Support Facility (ALSF), a organized, from 1 to 3 December 2025 in Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire), a workshop of training on the Common Protocol on Independent Producers of electricity (PIE).

The workshop respects recommendations made by the Ministers of Energy in their statement outcome of the 5th ministerial meeting “Desert to Power”, which aims to disseminate the Protocol in countries, and whose objective is to guarantee the development of solar projects competitive and bankable. The objective of this workshop is to strengthen the understanding and mastering the documents in the PIE Joint Protocol toolbox, to organize sessions practices for analysis and discussion around contract models and risk management approaches, as well as to discuss modalities use of documentation. The workshop, organized around sessions plenary sessions and case studies of negotiations, helped to consolidate the first phase of work on the Common Protocol, where national representatives have were trained and the contractual models integrated by the participants.

The event brought together focal points “Desert to Power” from Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritania, Niger and Chad, lawyers involved in contract negotiations, as well as representatives of ministries of Energy, project managers in public-private partnerships and the national electricity companies of these countries.