Impact Evaluation of the Netherlands supported Electrifying Rural Tanzania project
More than 1.1 billion people in developing countries lack access to
electricity with a large share living in rural Africa. It is
hypothesized that economic and human development are difficult without
electricity access. Tanzania’s huge geographical extent and low
population density makes infrastructure development such as
electrification a particularly difficult exercise. The electrification
rate is extremely low at around 46 percent in urban and 4 percent in
rural areas.
The proposed research encompasses an impact evaluation of an
intervention to rehabilitate and extend three isolated electricity grids
in Tanzania. The quasi-experimental research design uses a
difference-in-differences approach and complementary evaluation
approaches to identify the impacts of the intervention on households and
enterprises. For this purpose, surveys in the intervention areas were
conducted by RWI and its local partners between December 2014 and
February 2015 as well as between November 2018 and February 2019.
Projekt-related Publications
Bensch, G., M. Kreibaum, T. Mbegalo, J. Peters, N. Wagner (2017) The Status of Energy Access in Three Regions of Tanzania: Baseline Report for an Urban Grid Upgrading and Rural Extension Project. RWI Materialien 111. RWI Essen.
Publications
Project start:
01. October 2018
Project end:
30. September 2019
Project staff:
Prof. Dr. Jörg Peters,
Dr. Gunther Bensch
Project partners:
Erasmus Research & Business Support,
Erasmus University Rotterdam,
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen,
University of Dar es Salaam
Principal:
Netherland's Enterprise Agency