Solar IPP Tendering, PPA Structuring and Regulatory Compliance in Dakar

Programme Overview

Developing utility-scale solar photovoltaic infrastructure demands rigorous procurement mechanisms and bankable commercial frameworks. This intensive four-day course in Dakar provides energy ministry procurement specialists, state utility legal advisors and power sector regulators with technical capabilities to structure, tender and regulate independent power producer initiatives. Participants examine standard transaction documentation, private sector risk allocations and regulatory instruments required to successfully deploy private capital into national energy grids.

Instruction centres on practical mechanics governing competitive tendering, transparent bid evaluation and commercial contract negotiation. Participants review standardized Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs), tariff calculation models and concession structures tailored to utility-scale solar facilities. Through the systematic review of standard documentation approved by multilateral development lenders, delegates learn to balance public sector policy priorities against international private investor requirements for sovereign risk mitigation and commercial viability.

The curriculum addresses the post-award environment by exploring grid code compliance, commercial dispute prevention and regulatory enforcement mechanisms. Attendees assess key clauses governing curtailment, deemed generation, foreign exchange indexation and termination payments. By evaluating real transactional challenges faced by small island developing states and emerging African power markets, the course provides public sector professionals with essential skills to protect state interests whilst securing dependable clean electricity.

Small island developing states and developing power systems face critical challenges in displacing expensive, imported diesel fuel with reliable clean energy. Public institutions managing operations under the Comoros Solar Energy Access Project (US$43m) must structure commercially sound, competitive solar transactions that attract qualified private operators whilst maintaining affordable end-user tariffs. Mastering competitive procurement processes, bankable contract drafting and transparent regulatory compliance ensures public sector teams deliver utility-scale solar installations efficiently under international donor procurement regulations.

Delivered by Risalat Consultants International in Dakar, Senegal, it combines expert-led sessions, real cases and group work, so that participants can apply what they learn in their own institution.

The Programme Strengthens Institutional Capability

• International competitive tendering frameworks for utility-scale solar photovoltaics
• Prequalification criteria: assessing technical capability and balance sheet strength
• Structuring Request for Proposals (RFP) documentation under donor procurement rules
• Designing transparent bid evaluation matrices: technical and financial trade-offs
• Managing bidder clarification processes, site data rooms and transparent tender governance
• Core anatomy of a bankable solar Power Purchase Agreement
• Take-or-pay commitments, minimum supply guarantees and deemed generation mechanisms
• Grid connection delays, commissioning testing and commercial operation date protocols
• Fraud risk assessment and fraud risk registers
• Design and testing of internal controls
• The Three Lines model and the role of oversight
• Audit planning, evidence and documentation

It is designed for energy ministry procurement specialists and tender board members, power sector regulatory authority officers and tariff analysts, public electricity utility legal advisors and transaction counsel and others who want practical, current skills in fraud, audit and internal control.

The Growing Importance of Solar IPP Tendering, PPA Structuring and Regulatory Compliance in Dakar

Public bodies and donor-financed projects are expected to show that funds are used for their intended purpose. Auditors, oversight bodies and financiers increasingly look beyond the financial statements to the controls, records and behaviours behind them.

Fraud and control weaknesses rarely come from one failure. They grow where roles are unclear, records are incomplete and warning signs are not followed up. Teams that understand how fraud happens, and how controls stop it, protect both their institution and the people it serves.

Organisations increasingly require professionals capable of:

• Identify and rate fraud and control risks in their own processes
• Design controls that are proportionate and testable
• Gather and document reliable audit evidence
• Recognise red flags early and escalate them correctly
• Turn findings into practical, agreed actions

Strong fraud, audit and internal control systems help organisations:

• Reduce losses and ineligible expenditure
• Pass external audits with fewer findings
• Strengthen trust with financiers and citizens
• Respond to allegations in a fair and documented way

This Solar IPP Tendering, PPA Structuring and Regulatory Compliance in Dakar programme brings these elements together in a practical format, so that participants understand not only what good practice looks like but also how to introduce it in their own setting, with the people and resources they have.

Who Should Attend This Solar IPP Tendering, PPA Structuring and Regulatory Compliance in Dakar Training?

This programme is designed for:

• Energy ministry procurement specialists and tender board members
• Power sector regulatory authority officers and tariff analysts
• Public electricity utility legal advisors and transaction counsel
• Project execution unit officers working on donor-funded energy operations
• Ministry of finance infrastructure finance and debt management specialists
• Public-private partnership unit transaction coordinators
• Transmission grid operations managers and interconnection planners
• State attorneys advising on national sovereign guarantee structures
• Renewable energy agency development directors and technical officers
• Internal auditors and audit managers
• Finance managers and accountants
• Compliance and risk officers

The programme suits experienced professionals as well as those moving into new responsibilities. Groups that mix institutions and countries are encouraged, because participants learn a great deal from each other’s experience.

Solar IPP Tendering, PPA Structuring and Regulatory Compliance in Dakar Training Objectives

Upon successful completion of this Solar IPP Tendering, PPA Structuring and Regulatory Compliance in Dakar Training, participants will be able to:

• Evaluate international competitive bidding documents for solar independent power producer procurements in alignment with multilateral development bank standards
• Structure balanced, bankable Power Purchase Agreements that address curtailment, force majeure, deemed energy and termination settlements
• Calculate levelised cost of electricity and review tariff indexation models across diverse commercial debt and equity structures
• Formulate objective bid evaluation matrices and qualification criteria for utility-scale solar request for proposal processes
• Examine sovereign credit enhancement tools, including liquidity facilities, political risk insurance and partial risk guarantees
• Establish clear regulatory oversight frameworks for solar grid interconnection, performance monitoring and dispatch priority compliance
• Negotiate Government Support Agreements and direct agreements with international lenders to secure transaction close
• Explain how and why fraud happens, using recognised fraud risk models
• Carry out a fraud and control risk assessment for a real process
• Map controls to risks using the Three Lines model

Each objective is practised during the programme through exercises, cases or group work, so that participants leave able to do it, not only to describe it.

Programme Contents and Structure

Solar IPP Tendering, PPA Structuring and Regulatory Compliance in Dakar Training Methodology

The training employs practical legal analysis, financial modelling reviews and guided negotiation simulations. Participants analyse real project documentation, evaluating redacted contracts and donor-approved standard bidding documents. Working in small transactional teams representing either the public contracting authority or the private project sponsor, delegates negotiate disputed contract terms, evaluate simulated tender submissions and resolve regulatory compliance scenarios typical of emerging clean power markets.

The programme combines:

• Expert-led sessions on current practice
• Regional and international case studies
• Group work and practical exercises
• Simulations and role plays where relevant
• Discussion of participants' own challenges
• Peer learning across institutions and countries
• Practical tools and templates to take back to work
• Daily reflection and action planning

Before the programme, a short pre-assessment helps the facilitators understand each participant’s role and priorities, so that examples and exercises can be adjusted to the group. Each day ends with a short reflection in which participants note what they will apply at work.

Expected Outcomes

Upon completion of this Solar IPP Tendering, PPA Structuring and Regulatory Compliance in Dakar Training, participants will be able to:

• Ability to draft and audit competitive tender dossiers for solar independent power projects following international standards
• Capability to review and negotiate balanced Power Purchase Agreements and Government Support Agreements
• Competence in scrutinising solar project financial models, tariff indexation formulas and payment security arrangements
• Preparedness to manage transparent, defensible bid evaluations that withstand administrative and donor reviews
• Confidence in designing regulatory rules for solar dispatch priority, curtailment mitigation and technical grid code compliance
• Actionable institutional strategies to supervise independent power producer contracts across their operational lifecycle
• Assess fraud and control risks in their own processes
• Design and test proportionate controls

Participants leave with a personal action plan and practical tools they can use in their institution from the first week back. Institutions that send several participants can use the programme to agree shared methods and templates across teams, which makes improvements easier to sustain.

Institutional Application of Solar IPP Tendering, PPA Structuring and Regulatory Compliance in Dakar Training

This programme supports organisations in strengthening:

• Fraud and corruption risk management
• Internal control frameworks
• Audit and oversight arrangements
• Follow-up of audit findings
• Integrity and reporting channels

Participants return with practical tools to improve:

• Risk registers and control maps
• Audit planning and testing
• Evidence and documentation
• Reporting to management and boards
• Prevention of ineligible expenditure

The programme is built so that learning moves from the classroom into the institution. Participants work on their own processes and documents where possible, and leave with an action plan that their managers can review and support.

Regional Relevance & Application

Europe

European institutions apply fraud, audit and internal control within detailed regulatory frameworks and reform agendas. Participants from Europe can compare their practice with colleagues from other regions and test how established methods work under different conditions.

Africa

Across Africa, ministries, agencies and project teams working in fraud, audit and internal control increasingly operate alongside donor-financed programmes that expect clear systems and evidence. The programme helps participants adapt good practice to the institutions and resources they work with.

Middle East

In the Middle East, national development strategies and diversification plans place growing demands on fraud, audit and internal control. Participants explore how to build the capability these plans need inside public bodies and companies.

Asia

Institutions across Asia combine rapid growth with ambitious modernisation programmes. Participants from Asia can share their experience of scaling systems quickly and learn from approaches used elsewhere.

Pacific

Small island and Pacific states face particular constraints of size, distance and capacity. The programme highlights practical, proportionate approaches to fraud, audit and internal control that suit smaller institutions.

Holding the programme in Dakar, Senegal brings participants together away from their daily pressures, so they can compare how fraud, audit and internal control is handled in different settings. The same programme can also be delivered in-house for one institution, in its own country or online, with cases taken from its current work.

Host Country Profile – Senegal

Training programmes and study tours in Dakar suit professionals, project teams, and civil servants seeking exposure to West African governance, regional trade, and infrastructure development.

Studying away from their own country gives participants time to focus, a fresh view of their own institution and the chance to build a network with colleagues from other countries.

Solar IPP Tendering, PPA Structuring and Regulatory Compliance in Dakar Training Deliverables

Participants receive support before, during and after the programme, so that preparation, learning and follow-up form one continuous experience.

Before the Programme

• Participant Pre-Assessment
• Solar IPP Tendering, PPA Structuring and Regulatory Compliance in Dakar Readiness Assessment
• Solar IPP Tendering, PPA Structuring and Regulatory Compliance in Dakar Resource Pack
• Preparatory Reading Materials
• Complimentary Visa Support & Advisory

During the Programme

• Airport Pickup & Welcome Assistance
• Accommodation with Breakfast
• Welcome Networking Dinner
• Risalat Training Kit (Bag, Bottle, Mug, T-Shirt, Cap, Passport Cover, Pens, Notebook, Magnet & Keychain)
• Comprehensive Solar IPP Tendering, PPA Structuring and Regulatory Compliance in Dakar Training Manual
• Fraud Risk Register Template
• Control Mapping Matrix
• Audit Evidence Checklist
• Findings and Follow-up Tracker
• Practical Workshops & Simulations
• Group Discussions & Peer Learning
• Daily Lunch and Refreshments
• Full Access to Training Venue Facilities
• Mini Pad / Tablet with Digital Learning Materials
• Field Visit (where applicable)
• Entertaining City Tour

After the Programme

• Certificate of Completion
• Risalat Programme Participation Recognition Award
• Post-Training Reference Materials
• Fraud Risk Self-Assessment Guide
• Control Testing Checklist
• Post-Training Support & Follow-Up Guidance
• Programme Report

Institutions can also request a tailored in-house version of this programme, delivered at their premises or online. Request a proposal.

Common Challenges in Solar IPP Tendering, PPA Structuring and Regulatory Compliance in Dakar, And How This Training Helps

How can institutions identify and rate fraud and control risks in their own processes?

The programme addresses this directly on the first day (Solar IPP Procurement Frameworks and Competitive Tendering Design), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions design controls that are proportionate and testable?

The programme addresses this directly on the second day (PPA Commercial Structuring and Bankability Requirements), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions gather and document reliable audit evidence?

The programme addresses this directly on the third day (Tariff Modelling, Financial Structures and Sovereign Support), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions recognise red flags early and escalate them correctly?

The programme addresses this directly on the fourth day (Regulatory Oversight, Grid Integration and Contract Administration), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions turn findings into practical, agreed actions?

The programme addresses this directly on the first day (Solar IPP Procurement Frameworks and Competitive Tendering Design), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

Frequently Asked Questions

When and where does the Solar IPP Tendering, PPA Structuring and Regulatory Compliance in Dakar programme take place?

It runs from 15 Feb 2027 to 18 Feb 2027, in Dakar, Senegal. The registration deadline is shown at the top of this page.

Who should attend?

The programme is designed for energy ministry procurement specialists and tender board members, power sector regulatory authority officers and tariff analysts, public electricity utility legal advisors and transaction counsel, project execution unit officers working on donor-funded energy operations, and others who want practical skills in fraud, audit and internal control.

Will I receive a certificate?

Yes. Participants who complete the programme receive a Certificate of Completion from Risalat Consultants International.

Can this programme be delivered for our institution only?

Yes. We can deliver a tailored in-house version at your premises, in another city or online, built around your own cases. Use the proposal request on this page.

Do I need prior experience in fraud, audit and internal control?

No specialist background is required beyond experience in a related role. A short pre-assessment helps the facilitators adapt the sessions to the group.

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