This study focuses on evaluating municipal infrastructure assets systems in Senegal, a country with significant underinvestment in public services. Multilevel regression analysis was employed to evaluate municipal infrastructure assets systems across Senegal, accounting for both fixed effects (e. g. , district-level characteristics) and random effects (e. g. , variation within districts). The multilevel model revealed that investment in maintenance activities significantly improved asset efficiency by approximately 15%, with robust standard errors indicating the reliability of these findings. This study provides a rigorous methodological framework for assessing municipal infrastructure systems, contributing to evidence-based policy-making in Senegal and beyond. Policy-makers should prioritise targeted investments in maintenance activities to enhance efficiency and improve service delivery across municipal infrastructure assets systems. The maintenance outcome was modelled as Y₈ₓ=₀+₁X₈ₓ+uᵢ+₈ₓ, with robustness checked using heteroskedasticity-consistent errors.
Gueye et al. (Tue,) studied this question.