Project portfolio

Evaluation of the ORIO Project Electrifying Rural Tanzania

Location

Tanzania

Project duration

03/2014 – 10/2020

Client

Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO)

Consortium partners

Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), Georg-August University Göttingen

Services Provided
  • Long-term evaluation of grid extension activities in rural Tanzania based on survey in 100 villages
  • Additonal study component in urban Tanzania focusing on private enterprises
  • Institutional analysis of the public utility TANESCO and the Tanzanian energy sector
Publication

Project description
The Facility for Infrastructure Development ORIO financed by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs aims at encouraging public infrastructure development in developing countries. One of ORIO’s projects, Electrifying Rural Tanzania, intends to install local decentralized networks in west and north-western Tanzania and upgrade and repower already installed decentralized networks. In total, 24,000 clients are expected to benefit from these activities. In cooperation with Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) and the Georg-August Universität Göttingen, ecol was assigned to evaluate the intervention over a period of four years.