Indonesia Green Prosperity – Renewable Energy Grant Portfolio Impact Evaluation

Location

Indonesia

Project duration

06/2017 – 01/2018

Client

Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC)

Consortium partner

Social Impact, Inc. (lead)

Services Provided

Conduct qualitative interviews in Jakarta as well as in treatment villages in East Kalimantan and East Sumba
Provide advisory services to quantitative evaluation (identification strategy, sampling, outcome indicators, design of questionnaires)

Publication

Baseline report (2018)

Project description
This evaluation was a cooperation with Social Impact Inc. based in Arlington/Virginia. The study aimed at assessing the sustainability and the impacts of a mini-grid facility that provides grants to project developers for isolated grids in remote areas of Indonesia. A mixed-methods approach was pursued with in-depth interviews and focus group discussions conducted in East Kalimantan and East Sumba, complementing a structured quantitative survey in the same regions. One focus of the qualitative evaluation was to assess the operations and management of the Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) that were established to run the mini-grids. The idea of those SPV is to form a consortium between the villagers and a private investor to ensure a sustainable operation.