Energy Governance Initiative Assessment Mongolia

The Open Society Forum in cooperation with the Central Eurasian Project presents an Energy Governance Assessment, which was implemented with an aim to support strengthening of good and responsible governance in the energy sector. The assessment process was conducted with an Electricity Governance Initiative toolkit developed by the World Resources Institute (USA) and the Prayas Energy NGO (India) to assess capacity, transparency, public participation and accountability of (i) the regulatory process and (ii) the policy process of the sector with 68 indicators.

The present assessment was carried out based in on information and the situation of the sector in 2011 and the first half of 2012. As a result of the parliamentary elections in June 2012, there have been changes in the structure of some public bodies, including the energy governance structure. For instance, the Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy has been replaced by the Ministry of Energy, and the state implementing agency, the Energy Authority, was disbanded and its duties were transferred to the Ministry.